I also found out that calibration is done by moving the stick all the way in each of the four directions. So move the stick all the way left, then right, then up then down and the stick will be calibrated. You have to do this each time you run MacMAME (or AdvanceMAME for that matter.) Note that you have to do this while a game is loaded, not at the game selection interface. Once you do that the games for which there are no analog control emulation issues will work perfectly. Also note that in the case of MacMAME, you have to be using the latest test beta, which is not available at large.
If you can't find that, then you could try AdvanceMAME, although it is a lot slower than MacMAME so you'll need a pretty fast system for newer games. Also AdvanceMAME is not easy to install by any means. You have to first install the SDL library. I first tried downloading and installing the Mac OS X binary SDL library available from the SDL web site, but that doesn't really seem to install the library file that AdvanceMAME (and other programs I tried) uses. The way I got it to work was to install the SDL library via Fink, which does install the library file AdvanceMAME needs. After installing SDL via Fink, compile and install AdvanceMAME 0.90 and it will recognize the Fink version of the SDL library and use that. You can also install a version of AdvanceMAME from Fink, but that is an older version, not even up to the current version of MacMAME. Lastly, if you do all that, be sure that you run the program once which will create the default setup files/folders, and then edit your advmame.rc file (it is: ~/.advance/advmame.rc) and change "device_joystick none" to "device_joystick auto", otherwise the joystick won't work at all! You'll also either want to change the settings for the location of your ROM, artwork, etc folders in advmame.rc, or, as I did, change the folders in the ~/.advance/ directory to be symbolic links to the actual folders. Whew! One big advantage to AdvanceMAME is that it is up to date with the latest MAME version, so if you don't mind the extra work, and your computer is pretty fast, you may want to go that route.
Steve
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