Johnny 5 help needed. Not showing button labels.

[kelemvor]

Not sure if there are official forums for Johnny 5 but if there are, I coudln't find them...

Anyway, I'm just trying to install it and it works fine, shows me the screen, has the game name, controller type, etc...  but just isn't showing the button labels.

I didn't customize anything at all except to put in my mame.exe file location.  I'm not sure if I'm missing a file or if I have something in the wrong place or what.

Can anyone assist?

Thanks.

[SirPoonga]

http://www.mameworld.net/tigerheli has a good write  up

[kelemvor]

http://www.mameworld.net/tigerheli has a good write  up

http://www.mameworld.net/tigerheli/johnny/
This is the walkthrough I was following.  GOt it installed and set but just the button labels aren't working...

[Buddabing]

Not sure if there are official forums for Johnny 5 but if there are, I coudln't find them...

Anyway, I'm just trying to install it and it works fine, shows me the screen, has the game name, controller type, etc...  but just isn't showing the button labels.

I didn't customize anything at all except to put in my mame.exe file location.  I'm not sure if I'm missing a file or if I have something in the wrong place or what.

Can anyone assist?

Thanks.

Go to Options->Viewer, then check your ctrlr file. Make sure the keycodes on your labels match the keycodes in your ctrlr file. If you didn't put in a ctrlr file entry in the viewer options, then that may be your problem.

I don't think there is an official forum per se, but you could probably post something on fe.donkeyfly.com if you can't figure it out yourself.

[Extreme8]

Are you using an optimized build of Mame?
I had the same issue when using mame64.exe, but my ini was named mame.ini.
Mame ran fine but J5 had the exact problem you're describing.
I copied mame.ini to mame64.ini and my labels appeared.
J5 seems to require that your exe and ini file have the same name.

[kelemvor]

Go to Options->Viewer, then check your ctrlr file. Make sure the keycodes on your labels match the keycodes in your ctrlr file. If you didn't put in a ctrlr file entry in the viewer options, then that may be your problem.

I don't think there is an official forum per se, but you could probably post something on fe.donkeyfly.com if you can't figure it out yourself.

I checked in there and just put in xarcade since that's one that's in my ctrlr folder.  I opened up that file and saw stuff like KEYCODE_LCONTROL and that's the same thing on the label when I open the default layout in Johnny5.

No idea why it's not working.  *sigh*

[kelemvor]

Are you using an optimized build of Mame?
I had the same issue when using mame64.exe, but my ini was named mame.ini.
Mame ran fine but J5 had the exact problem you're describing.
I copied mame.ini to mame64.ini and my labels appeared.
J5 seems to require that your exe and ini file have the same name.

Nope.  I'm just using Mame103 (mame.exe) and Mamewah as the FE.  The only mame.ini file I have is inside the Mamewah/INI folder.  Is there supposed to be one in the main Mame folder too?  Maybe I'm missing a file somehow.

[Extreme8]

Create a mame.ini file and give it a shot.
type mame -createconfig and it'll make the mame.ini file for you.

I'm a long way from a J5 expert, but I did get it working. The .ini file was the hangup for me.

[kelemvor]

Create a mame.ini file and give it a shot.
type mame -createconfig and it'll make the mame.ini file for you.

I'm a long way from a J5 expert, but I did get it working. The .ini file was the hangup for me.

Well I had it create the file but it didn't help just by doing that.  Are there any settings in there I need to point anywhere special?  hmm.

[sharkus]

Have you defined a ctrlr.cfg file that has all of the keys on your control panel defined?  You must do this since the later versions of mame do not create a default .cfg.

I have a sample for the ipac2/minipac on this thread:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=49115.0

Also, once you create your .cfg file don't forget to update your mame.ini file to use it!

Good luck,
Sharkus

[kelemvor]

Also, once you create your .cfg file don't forget to update your mame.ini file to use it!

Good luck,
Sharkus

AH HA!!  That was it.

I was just using the XArcade.cfg file that was in my ctrlr folder by default when I downloaded a pack of stuff.  But I made the mame.ini manually.  Didn't know I had to then go in there and tell if what to use.

So I changed the ctrlr file from Null to XArcade and now it's working.