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| thebrownshow:
I have no special function buttons on my 7-button panel. Aside from the standard J-Pac shifted buttons, I programmed the top row of buttons to shift to F2, F3, and F5 (Menu in ScummVM). I don't really see why anything other than possibly Esc and Pause should have any place on a control panel. |
| Lilwolf:
btw, my favorite is SPEED (its mapped to F10 and F11 at the same time... so it unlocks the speed). I want to modify mame sometime so that on button press it unlimits, and sets the fps to 12... and on release it goes back to the original, but I haven't had time) but VERY useful when starting a game to be able to jump the speed to 300% w |
| ahofle:
Yep, that's a great time saver. I ended up default mapping my rarely used 3rd player coin button on the side of the CP to F10/F11, and then manually changed it back in the few games like gauntlet that have a 3rd player coin slot. |
| clhug:
--- Quote from: clhug on May 02, 2006, 12:54:36 pm --- --- Quote from: wpcmame on May 02, 2006, 07:16:38 am ---The "Auto Up" button is a toggle button (i.e. it stays down until pressed again). In many cases it was more of switch than a button. The button's two states are called "Auto-Up" and "Manual-Down" (note the hyphen). The names come from the button's 2 functions which both work together with the "Advance" button. 1. The button selects if the "Advance" button should move to the next or previous entry (in settings and audits). "Up" means move to next, "Down" means move to previous entry. 2. The button selects if the game is in "Automatic" or "Manual" mode. Don't remember but I think "Automatic" was used to have the game cycle through various tests. When in "Manual" mode the "Advance" button moves to the next test. In mame the "Auto up" naming is confusing. It would be better if it was called something like "Auto & Up / Manual & Down". Don't think the button is marked as a toggle button in mame (you need to hold it down manually to set it in Auto or up position). --- End quote --- Thanks for the explanation. That helps some. But what's the reason I'd need to access these screens this in any particular game within MAME? I can understand them being there purely from an emulation standpoint if they want to truly emulate the original game functions, but if all I care about is playing the games, what would I use these functions for? Thanks again! --- End quote --- I'd still like the answers to my follow-up questions here if anybody is willing. Thanks! |
| thebrownshow:
I use the F2 key all the time when I want to adjust settings INSIDE a particular game. For example, changing credit options, difficulty, or other SOFTWARE switches for games that don't use DIP switches (configurable in the MAME menu). If you don't mind reaching in for the keyboard at times when you might need to do things like that, then don't use them. By no means would you ever need a dedicated button for them, use the SHIFT functions of your encoder. I don't know if it can be explained any more clearly than that. |
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