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| vindic8r:
I've done a bunch of searching and this question seems to have only come up here once long ago, and reading that thread, I'm not sure that I understood the solution. Default MAME keycodes that are preprogrammed into the IPAC4 have the same controls for P2 buttons 5-8 as P3 directionals. Given that there aren't any 3 player games that use more than 4 buttons, this doesn't seem like it would actually present issues when playing, but it does cause CPWizard to get a bit confused. My attempts to remap P2 5-8 to different keys have thus far been unsuccessful - comma and period seem available for programming, but for some reason, don't work when I try them in games that I know use them, like Tekken. And CPWizard isn't showing any commands mapped to those keycodes either, so I have to think I'm doing something wrong here. So I guess I have two questions. * What are people using as their keycode mappings on their 4P panels? * How does one go about properly setting those mappings in MAME? I've tried doing so from the TAB --> Input (General) --> Player 2 Controls menu, but no matter what I map there, it never works in game. The keycodes I change are always grey (which I hear means they are not the default, so that's fine), but the fact that they don't work, that's not good. Any thoughts/suggestions would be most appreciated! My MOTUMAME build is stalled until I can crack this nut. :( |
| vindic8r:
No ideas? Really? C'mon guys, help a brother out. |
| PL1:
Just to clarify, which is the better way to describe your situation? 1. You can't reprogram your IPac using Ultimarc's WinIPac utility to accept comma and period on P2 Buttons 5 and 6, respectively. 2. You successfully reprogrammed both IPac inputs with comma and period. You verified they work by using the reprogrammed buttons to "type" in Notepad/Wordpad. MAME still won't accept changing the default P2 Button 5 and 6 inputs to comma and period. Scott |
| vindic8r:
--- Quote from: PL1 on August 14, 2012, 12:53:19 am ---Just to clarify, which is the better way to describe your situation? 1. You can't reprogram your IPac using Ultimarc's WinIPac utility to accept comma and period on P2 Buttons 5 and 6, respectively. 2. You successfully reprogrammed both IPac inputs with comma and period. You verified they work by using the reprogrammed buttons to "type" in Notepad/Wordpad. MAME still won't accept changing the default P2 Button 5 and 6 inputs to comma and period. Scott --- End quote --- Actually, Scott, I'm not to the point where I'm programming the IPac just yet. I'm still just updating settings in MAME itself. I'm really just curious what people who have 4P panels with 6+ buttons on P1 & P2 usually map their button presses to. The default for P2 Buttons 5-7 is that they are mapped to I-K-J-L, which are the directionals for P3. This shouldn't present any conflict in game, since there aren't any 4P games that use more than 4 buttons (that I've seen), but I'm a purist and would prefer that each button on the panel maps to a unique key. I was able to get MAME to accept the following key mappings for P2 and everything tested fine in a quick play of Street Fighter II: P2 Button 5 = N P2 Button 5 = , P2 Button 6 = . So I think, assuming that these aren't mapped to some admin function that I've never used, I should be OK. |
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