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| u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: Visitor Q on December 03, 2008, 08:25:42 am ---I am configure Mame in the following way only by using the tab key and then pressing whatever keys to be mapped to certain buttons etc.. --- End quote --- Only "Input (general)", "Input (this game)", or both? --- Quote ---So from what I gather here is all I need to do is copy my default.cfg into my ctrl folder and then point mame’s crtl to “default” after I configure using the tab key in Mame. I guess my question is then, what happens when I make changes to my default.cfg then by using the tab key, will they save? Will I have to recopy that file or will it edit anything change and save it correctly to the moved file? --- End quote --- The way it works it ctrlr overwrites the defaults, the Input (general) akak cfg/default.cfg file, overwrites ctrlr file, and Input (this game), aka cfg/gamename.cfg, overwrite that. So you can continue remap with what you've done before, but you might lose them like you have before. Then there's the moving between versions issues, but you're probably used to these. --- Quote ---ps. I am not using the default X-Arcade cfg because I remapped all the keys on my X-Arcade using the built in key mapper in the X-Arcade. I did map my Xbox360 in Xpadder to use all the same key presses but like I said, this only works when Xpadder works and in Mame, that is not the case but with my other emualtors, all is well. --- End quote --- Mame, unlike 99.9% of othe apps uses RawInput to read the keyboard, and get multiple keyboard support again unlike 99.9% of apps. This is what makes joy2key & xpadder not work. (FWIW, I heard xpadder still worked, but I've never used it; I always remap mame instead of the other way around.) |
| Visitor Q:
Currently General Input but of course there will be times per game so really both. hahaha I guess I should have just said both. :P So should I program my controls then at this point and more my default.cfg? |
| Malenko:
this might not be the answer you want, but why not 2 separate mame set ups, one for wireless controlleer plugged in and one without? you couuld share all the folders with them but have separate inis and exes. its what Id do instead of bending over backwards to make software work. |
| u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: Visitor Q on December 05, 2008, 08:51:35 am ---Currently General Input but of course there will be times per game so really both. hahaha I guess I should have just said both. :P So should I program my controls then at this point and move my default.cfg? --- End quote --- Yeah, do the Input (general) like normal, then move the default.cfg file from the cfg folder to the ctrlr folder. You can rename it if you want. Then set the ctrlr line to that name; if you didn't rename it, that would be ctrlr default. Pretty easy. You'll only have to think of updating your ctrlr file only if you remap something to the gamepad that you don't want to risk losing. --- Quote from: Malenko on December 05, 2008, 10:41:33 am ---this might not be the answer you want, but why not 2 separate mame set ups, one for wireless controlleer plugged in and one without? you couuld share all the folders with them but have separate inis and exes. --- End quote --- But if you accidentally run the mame setup of the gamepad when isn't not plugged in, you'll still lose the settings, the whole reason Vistor Q asked in the first place. IMO, not a good alternative. --- Quote ---its what Id do instead of bending over backwards to make software work. --- End quote --- If this is bending over backwards, I should be in the circus. ::) It would be nice to have a GUI app that could make a ctrlr file, copy over from cfg files, etc, but geeze, what's so hard about moving a file from one folder to another, and changing one line in mame.ini file? If that's difficult, no wonder ctrlr files are rarely used to its full potential. :( [sacasm=off] Adding game/bios remaps by hand is a little harder but IMO still easy. OTOH, hand updating existing stuff in the ctrlr file can get pretty technical. If this last one is what's being called "bending backwards", okay I understand why someone who hasn't tried it thinks that way; much like riding a bike or juggling: hard to learn, but once you got it, you never forget. ;D :cheers: |
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