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Controls.dat - Quick and Dirty
SirPoonga:
It's in the FAQ for controls.dat. Documenting the controls used by games in mame.
ok, 505 game directly supported, 1044 indirectly supported.
chris, the xml file is broken, I am going to try and fix it soon. Just delete the offending chars that are causing the probs.
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: krick on April 26, 2004, 12:41:07 am ---What is "controls.dat" for?
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Like Sir Poonga said, basically, you fire up a game in MAME, you can tell it uses four buttons, but what do they do? That's what you use controls.dat for.
Also, eventually, it should be incorporated into a frontend, so that if you have an image of your CP and label locations for each button, the frontend will tell you what each button does.