Yes MKChamps diff patches use the "1" key for select. That is a more common key for Mame cabs which is why he chose it. You can always remap the UI_SELECT key to something else.
Howdy-
My 115 & 115u2 compiles MAMEs have been great so far, Headkaze--thank you!!!
I am, however, having trouble returning my Enter key to be the UI_SELECT key after I use TAB to bring up the in-MAME menu. Digging in to this issue raised a few other questions:
I gather that the UI_SELECT line should be part of the default.cfg file in the cfg directory in mame. My default.cfg file is only 6 lines long and seems to be mostly comments. There is no UI_SELECT line to update. If I delete it & rerun MAME, as suggested in other posts to return things to "normal", then this file gets regenerated as-is (6 lines only).
1 - I have mame32115.exe, mame115optpatch.exe, & mame115u2optpatch.exe all in the same mame folder. I use mame115optpatch.exe to launch 99.9% of my games, mame115u2optpatch.exe to launch 4 games that don't work in 115, & mame32115u2 for occasional troubleshooting. My MaLa FE launches a mame.cmd file per SGT's awesome setup post & instructions. It looks for those 4 problem games' filenames & goes to a launch 115u2 if %1 matches one of those 4 names. So, I realized that I have but 1 mame.ini file, and 1 mame32ui.ini file (which, strangely, appeared last night...). Neither of these has the UI_SELECT line item in it. Where do I find it?
2 - Perhaps more of a concern to me at this point is, am I getting myself into trouble by having multiple mame executables in the same directory? Are they going to "fight" over the mame.ini file or other files like cfg/default.cfg? Should I segregate all my various MAMEs? (I'm going to add 1-2 more to run Phoenix & Turbo shortly).
3 - I realized that I might need to download a new hiscore.dat file. The one in my mame directory is dated 2/7/06 & says v0.104 & 7.0 near the top, in the commented area. I just downloaded a new hiscore.dat from
http://www.mameworld.net/highscore/download.htm. Its contents say its latest items are from 17/03.2007. Is there any compatibility/matching required between a hiscore-patched MAME (I used the 114/115/116 diff when I compiled) & the hiscore.dat file in the mame folder?
Thanks!
-Jason
PS--I realize that this might be borderline off-topic to the compiler thread, but I think 1 & 3 are at least relevant questions! :]