Mala experts, need help with key-mapping

[IG-88]

After discovering this fantastic FE recently I would like to try and use it for a bunch of PC games that I have. Remakes, abandon-ware, indies, my old DOS collection, ect. ect.

I've figured out how to get them to list and to run but what I was wondering is if there is a way for me to re-map the keys for each individual game (that needs it) so I could use the same set of joysticks and buttons. I wanted to make a bartop that ran just these types of games but am running into the problem of using a set amount of controls.

I am thinking Mala can do this but I haven't been able to figure it out. Any suggestions?

[TheShanMan]

Mala can't do that directly, but what encoder do you have? You can probably have it set up to download a new map for each game on the fly. I haven't done it, but I know the ipac can be set up to do that. IIRC there is a mala plugin for the ipac that handles it.

[IG-88]

I haven't got an encoder yet. I'll check out that Ipac. Wonder what that plugin involves?

Thanks

[BobbyG66]

I used Autohotkey to remap my controls for PC games.
It works well.

http://www.autohotkey.com/

 

[IG-88]

Mala can't do that directly, but what encoder do you have? You can probably have it set up to download a new map for each game on the fly. I haven't done it, but I know the ipac can be set up to do that. IIRC there is a mala plugin for the ipac that handles it.

Didn't see that plugin on the Mala site.....

BobbbyG66, are those batch files you use for each individual game? Are they hard to make?

[IG-88]

Anyone know how to get to this:

http://mala.arcadezentrum.com/hotkeys.html

I can't find it in the options menu.

[SGT]

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[BobbyG66]

Mala can't do that directly, but what encoder do you have? You can probably have it set up to download a new map for each game on the fly. I haven't done it, but I know the ipac can be set up to do that. IIRC there is a mala plugin for the ipac that handles it.

Didn't see that plugin on the Mala site.....

BobbbyG66, are those batch files you use for each individual game? Are they hard to make?

IG-88,

Here are the AHK scripts I used to run two different games.

run "C:\games\TheBlob\De Blob\Blob EN\De Blob.exe" EN
WinWait, De Blob
WinWaitClose, De Blob
ExitApp
Return

y::space
v::LButton
u::RButton

*** and ***

run "C:\games\Stopple\Stopple.exe"
WinWait, Stopple
WinWaitClose, Stopple
ExitApp
Return

y::space
v::LButton
u::RButton

*****************
You do have to set the key numbers (y, v and u) in my example to match your keys.
These scripts were designed to use remap my buttons to mouse buttons.

Hope this helps...