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Tiger-Heli:
Since a lot of people tend to be programming their own MAME's lately, I thought of another feature which would be handy to have.

I am building controls similar to www.gamebrick.com, but this idea would be useful for any arcade control (and yes, I do know it's been asked before).

Many games such as Pac-Man used alternating controls (one set of controls and players swapped back and forth.)

x-wing:
How does Kaillera do it?  Somehow it allows alternating play across the net, so it must be possible.

Or, does it assign simultaneous controls to both players, so you could screw each other up?  (BTW, I've never used Kaillera, just read/heard about it...)

CD_Vision:
Am I reading this the wrong way? As far as I know you can set individual controls for player 1 and 2 with mame in the options menu.

Or are you saying that you want something like cocktail mode, except the screen doesn't flip?

JustMichael:
I tried setting the "Inputs (this game)" to have RDFG instead of the arrow keys and Mame wouldn't respond to the arrow keys in pacman.  Did you know you can set Mame to accept one key or another key?  Go to P1 Up in the list.  Hit enter and press the Up Arrow.  Now it should just say Up.  Now hit enter again and press R.  It should now say Up Or R.

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote ---Am I reading this the wrong way? As far as I know you can set individual controls for player 1 and 2 with mame in the options menu.

Or are you saying that you want something like cocktail mode, except the screen doesn't flip?
--- End quote ---


There is no options menu for Pacman (Puckman, was what I was trying with).  In the "Inputs - This game" menu, you can set Player 2 inputs, but they are never used.

Yes, that would be real similar to what I am looking for (cocktail mode with no screen flipping).

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