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Help with buttons!
Evilpenguinj:
Hi all
I just completed wiring my cabinet to an Ipac VE. I have 7 buttons on each side of the control panel. I just wired the corresponding button to it's correct spot on the Ipac board. My question is when I play games Player 1 and Player 2 have different buttons to press. Do you think this is because I wired it wrong or is this normal. If it's normal than what is the best way to make sure both player one and player 2 have the same buttons to press. Forgive me if this is a real noob question!
Jason
maffewl:
It may be that your button number system is different that what MAME is defaulted at. Don't sweat it though, MAME is highly customizable. Just press tab in a game - go to general input or something like that, should be the top selection (or if you just want to alter the buttons for a single game, then go to the next selection which is input this game or something to that effect) and re-map the buttons (see link below) to how you would like them to be.
http://mamedev.org/devwiki/index.php/FAQ:Controls#How_do_I_configure_the_keys.3F
PL1:
If you don't want to go back and mess with tracing wires or rewiring the panel, you can reprogram the MAME defaults on the "Inputs (general)" menu.
1. Highlight the button/function you want to remap
2. Press enter
3. Press escape to clear that input
4. Press enter again
5. Press the button you want to associate with the function
NOTE: If you reprogram all your inputs using the "Input (this Game)" menu, you will have to repeat the whole process for every single game.
The "Input (this Game)" menu is good for individual games that you want to assign different buttons. i.e. Xybots has a joystick that you twist to turn right/left -- set P1B1 as left turn, P1B2 as fire, P1B3 as right turn, etc to play it using a regular joystick.
Scott
Evilpenguinj:
Thanks for all the replies guys!
The way I have my buttons is 3 buttons on top 3 buttons below with one button diagonally on the left hand side beside the bottom 3 buttons. Is there a specific way I should set them up?
or should I just go
135
246
7
Thanks again for all your help!
jason
BadMouth:
--- Quote from: Evilpenguinj on December 14, 2012, 11:42:41 am ---
135
246
7
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Put down the pipe.
My preference is:
123
456
7
The other common layout (no more or less correct):
567
234
1
Depends on if you instinctively put your fingers on the top or bottom row.
Whatever you do, you will still have to remap some individual games. (mostly fighting games)