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richman:
I'm running mame32 on windows 2000 server, please don't ask why on server :)  Also I'm using Hagstroms KE72 which works great.

I decided to try to use the macro features of the KE72,  I wanted to setup one button to put in a coin, wait and then start the game for one player.

I programmed the KE72 to output "A" wait a sec then "B" and I setup mame so "A" is mapped to coin1 and "B" is mapped to start player 1.

When i open notepad and press the button it types A waits then B, works great, except in mame for some reason it doesn't work ?? :(

thanks
   Rich

Harry Potter:
That's just lazy! :)

Bu seriously, could be that mame overrides the "wait a sec" bit, putting a stop to the B part. Try it without the "wait" bit.
richman:

--- Quote from: bosss7 on April 12, 2004, 12:49:02 pm ---That's just lazy! :)

Bu seriously, could be that mame overrides the "wait a sec" bit, putting a stop to the B part. Try it without the "wait" bit.

--- End quote ---

I have tried it with and without the wait, if it was the wait was causing it I would think I would at least see a credit "coin1" happen, but I don't. Thanks for the reply
unclet:
Could this be "case sensative" issue?  If not,  then since you are using a macro then maybe you need to use the [ENTER] syntax after each letter input like the following:

     [A][ENTER][ENTER]


Why do you need the pause?  Maybe to just let Mame get ready for the next keystroke I guess ...?

PS:  I use the KE72 macro functionality to allow me to press one button on my cabinet which executes a different KE72 config file (ie: atari2600.cfg) to remap all of my buttons for use with a different emulator.    I actually have a few emulators which I can remap my buttons/joysticks to at a push of a button.   I do this so I can keep the default key mappings of the various emulators I have instead of being forced to change their default key mappings to map my current Mame key mappings.
richman:
I tried both upper and lower case, it didn't make a difference.
As far the [Enter] I'll try it, but it shouldn't need it.

I saw another post about a month ago having the same problem but no one replied.

Here is the post
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=16684;start=msg131827#msg131827
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