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Left Ctrl/Right Ctrl problem
« on: April 09, 2005, 09:36:13 pm »
My I-Pac is set to the default, P1 button 1 = Left Ctrl.  The problem I have is when I want to change the button configuration for a game, I press the Left Ctrl button and it pops up "Left Ctrl Right Ctrl".  When I go to use that button in the game it does nothing.  Same problem with button 2 being "Left Alt Right Alt"   Is there an easy solution to this?

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Re: Left Ctrl/Right Ctrl problem
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2005, 09:40:25 pm »
Yeah, what's up with that?  I have the same problem.

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Re: Left Ctrl/Right Ctrl problem
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2005, 12:00:54 am »
Can someone at least tell me how to reset the individual game controls to the defaults?  I thought deleting the nvram file for them would do it but it didn't. 

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Re: Left Ctrl/Right Ctrl problem
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2005, 01:10:41 am »
Yeah, that happened once when I was playing with my friend. I had to push both left and right control for it to work. I don't remember what we did to fix it...sorry... :-\
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Re: Left Ctrl/Right Ctrl problem
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2005, 02:16:58 am »
if you are talking about changing the button for each game through the config for this game then what i do is just keep re-entering that button til it clears out. for example if i want a button 1 that is assigned to lft ctrl to button 4 that is assigned ] then i just keep hitting ENTER and in putting ]. after about 8-10 times it clears out and leaves just ]. but before clearing it looks like ] and ] and ] and ] and lft ctrl.

also if you want to clear button settings just delete the .cfg for that game

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Re: Left Ctrl/Right Ctrl problem
« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2005, 04:49:21 am »
Any ideas on why my tab button would've suddenly stopped pulling up my menus within games?   :o

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Re: Left Ctrl/Right Ctrl problem
« Reply #6 on: April 10, 2005, 02:34:31 pm »
Yeah I had that problem.

I deleted the whole .cfg folder and that seems to sort it out.

There may be a better way if you have got lots of custom .cfgs and you dont want to get rid of them all, but like I said, that worked for me!  ;)

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Re: Left Ctrl/Right Ctrl problem
« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2005, 02:41:13 pm »
Seems like I had this problem if I tried to set the controls while a game was paused... try it when the game is not paused.

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Re: Left Ctrl/Right Ctrl problem
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2005, 12:47:02 am »
Pausing a game and remapping causes problems.  Have you tried setting up your own ctrlr file?  Take a look here and here for info on the ctrlr files.

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Re: Left Ctrl/Right Ctrl problem
« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2005, 07:04:31 am »
Any ideas on why my tab button would've suddenly stopped pulling up my menus within games?   :o
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