hacked keyboard problems

[thewhizard]

I have a simple plastic box with 1 joystick and 3 buttons - I hacked a keyboard to wire it together - "keyhack" shows the keys as functional right left up down alt control space

mame at best recognizes the fire button only

ps/2 and I have a usb adaptor for it -

What am I missing?

[BobA]

I am not familiar with keyhack but when you check the keys is it the Left Ctl and Left Alt that you have wired into for your keyboard hack?

BobA

[tmasman]

Make sure none of your connections are crossed and that none of your soldered points are touching 2 contacts on the PCB.

Also, do the key presses work in other applications? (open a document in Notepad & try moving the cursor around with the joystick. etc...)

If all else fails, use different keys for the buttons/diections & remap them in MAME.

Keep us posted with your results...
Good luck!

[thewhizard]

I found the control.cfg file for mame - edited it and got it to work - always figure it out after the fact

[Apollo]

"hacked keyboard problems"

Sorry but doesn't anyone see the humour in a thread title like that? LMFAO

[grafixmonkey]

yeah really, as far as I can tell "hacked keyboard" is logically equivalent to "problems".

[thewhizard]

looks stable - only running 1 joystick and 3 buttons

just a garbage test box joystick