Question About SlikStik & Defender in MAME

[Dai Shan]

I fired up my MAME setup today and decided to play Defender for the first time on it. The default layout in MAME (MAME32 0.111 btw) under Controllers is "SlikStik_Classic_FROMCD". This is the first game that has given me trouble.

Basically none of the buttons on it activate the Hyperspace or Smart Bomb. 2 of the 3 buttons next to my trackball in the middle of the stik do Thrust & Fire, and 1 of the 6 fighting buttons on my left controller layout (bottom middle) does Reverse.

Weird ass layout as a default. Is there anyway I can edit this. With SlikStik going bye-bye ( ) I'm at a loss.

Thanks,
John

[HaRuMaN]

Press <TAB> while in game, and edit the controls for that game.

[Dai Shan]

Press <TAB> while in game, and edit the controls for that game.

Thank you! Once you said it I remembered. I really don't play this thing as often as I want to.

Another question if I may. Saved States. I loaded Defender a handful of times and the saved state wasn't always loaded successfully. Of course it didn't load right after I finally got my name up!

[TheShanMan]

I don't know about saved states with Defender specifically, but an alternative is compiling hiscore support back into mame so that you can use the hiscore.dat file. Check the software forum for the hiscore.dat patch (in a sticky thread) and for headkase's mame compiler program (also in the software forum), which makes compiling mame yourself trivial.

[Dai Shan]

Thanks for the reply TheShanMan. I exited out of Defender after getting my name up again and it seemed to load just fine. Everything did seem in order. Not sure why the loading of the previous state failed. Weird.