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Smash TV controls are backwards
severdhed:
--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on July 06, 2009, 03:20:05 pm ---I'm just repeating what others said, but what the hey.
Sounds like you already remapped (since you have the "P3"* stick working, depending how it's connected). Or maybe not since player 2 isn't working (as mame's has no defaults for P2's dual sticks). Because mame's left stick does move the character, and mame's right stick fires, I'll bet it's all about incorrect mapping.
*I find it easier to think the stick as joystick 1-4, NOT player 1-4's joysticks when remapping. So I'd call your layout J3 J1 J2 J4.
I'd say remap general, since the dual stick inputs are different from the normal stick input (IOW, remapping them won't effect non-dual stick games). Start any game, tab, select "Input (general)", select player 1, and scroll down to the p1 right/### and p1 left/### game inputs. The left and right shown prior is the stick, and the "###" is that stick's direction. You want P1 left have J3 mapped, and P1 right to J1. Select each of the eight inputs, and press the corresponding stick and direction in turn. Repeat for player 2 inputs with J2 & J4.
If you do "Inputs (general)" all dual stick games should work. IMO, Cfg Magician is an overkill for this job, but might be the thing if you need to remap some of games differently than other with the same input type.
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if you to to input (general) and remap p1 left to j3 left, would it not do that for every game that doesnt have it's own cfg file? how many dual joystick games can there possibly be? i'd just go to input (this game) and remap the controls for those few games..there cannot be that many of them.
u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: severdhed on July 06, 2009, 03:51:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on July 06, 2009, 03:20:05 pm ---...p1 right/### and p1 left/### game inputs. The left and right shown prior is the stick, and the "###" is that stick's direction....
...If you do "Inputs (general)" all dual stick games should work. IMO, Cfg Magician is an overkill for this job, but might be the thing if you need to remap some of games differently than other with the same input type.
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if you to to input (general) and remap p1 left to j3 left, would it not do that for every game that doesnt have it's own cfg file? how many dual joystick games can there possibly be? i'd just go to input (this game) and remap the controls for those few games..there cannot be that many of them.
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No.
Since mame treats the dual sticks as different inputs than the normal 8-way sticks, remapping "P1 Left/Left" to "J3 Left" will not effect the 90% of the other games that use "P1 Left" input. Remember, you're not mapping "J3 Left" to "P1 Left/Left"; if "J3 Left" is in any other inputs' maps before you remap "P2 Left/Left" to it, it will still be in those other inputs, too. (However, if you remapped as you said in your example, yes the other games would be changed, and the dual stick games would not be changed to the correct map.)
So why remap even three or four times (smashtv, total carnage, robotron, & crazy climber, but maws find ~60 parents for the four types of dual joystick inputs) or use a third party app, when doing it once in Input general fixes it for all dual stick games? And does not hurt any other games.