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Can an LED-wiz+GP (16in/16out) be used w/o LED?

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--- Quote from: brownicus15 on November 28, 2014, 11:30:10 am ---I did read it, but clearly my level of noob is blatantly obvious! This is starting to make a significant amount of sense. So as for in MAME, I simply have to make the controller a controller, rather than a keyboard? I need certain things explained like I'm stupid. Because I'm stupid.

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In MAME, you should be able to highlight the control you want to change, hit enter, and then hit the button. MAME will pick up the next event (controller button, keystroke, etc) that gets hit. That board simulates a controller, not a keyboard, so you can't open Notepad or something and hit a key and see anything happen. You need to use something that shows controller buttons (joy.cpl does that).

It should just work, but if its not, use joy.cpl not MAME to see what is happening. It'll show you if a button is being registered or not.

One thing to be aware of, though -- Windows doesn't keep controller IDs stable, so if you plug/unplug any other controllers you'll likely wipe out the MAME settings and have to redo them. There's utilities that can help with it, but IMO controller interfaces are a giant pain in the ass.

brownicus15:

Thank you so much! No other controllers will be plugged in once it's set, so hopefully it will keep the settings. thank you!

IAmDotorg:


--- Quote from: brownicus15 on November 28, 2014, 11:47:34 am ---Thank you so much! No other controllers will be plugged in once it's set, so hopefully it will keep the settings. thank you!

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One thing I just remembered -- MAME may not have joysticks enabled by default. Double check mame.ini and make sure theres a "joystick 1" line in there. "joystick 0" turns off joystick support. (And controllers/joysticks are the same thing)

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