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secret80sman:

Am having trouble assigning player two controls for mame games that typically only had a single jostick on their arcade machine counterparts (ex. Ms. Pac Man, Galaga, etc.) I can reassign player one control to whatever I want but then those controls are the same for player two. If I want to have a friend sit with me side by side and not have to reach over everytime we switch is there anything else I can do other than having a dedicated shared stick in the middle ? ins Is there something I am doing wrong? I know how to assign controls inside of each game (press enter and then the direction of the joystick or button of choice). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks everyone!
MG

Thenasty:

there nothing you're doing wrong. Remember MAME emulates how the real ARCADE WORKS. So Ms.Pacman is a Single Joystcik and player take turns using the same joystick. This is how the orignal works and how it was program.
If you're good in re-programing MAME, maybe you can achieve what you wanted.


You can however achieve this via HARDWARE. You can setup both joysticks to the same inputs, then have a switch for the GROUND and switch it when it's the other players turn.


If its a cocktail setup, then just go in the DIP setting and switch the game to coctail.

Hoopz:

Another thought is for those games that are affected by this to map both joysticks to the same inputs within Mame itself.  Only do it for those select games though.

So for Ms Pac-Man, Mame will allow you to have two controls assigned to move her right (or any direction) and you would have those controls be Joy 1 and Joy 2 right.  They would both be able to move her.

Make sense?

Malenko:


--- Quote from: Hoopz on January 19, 2010, 09:07:04 am ---Another thought is for those games that are affected by this to map both joysticks to the same inputs within Mame itself.  Only do it for those select games though.

So for Ms Pac-Man, Mame will allow you to have two controls assigned to move her right (or any direction) and you would have those controls be Joy 1 and Joy 2 right.  They would both be able to move her.

Make sense?

--- End quote ---

I'll simplify:

redefine/remap your inputs so both joysticks control "player one"

Hoopz:


--- Quote from: Malenko on January 19, 2010, 09:34:15 am ---
--- Quote from: Hoopz on January 19, 2010, 09:07:04 am ---Another thought is for those games that are affected by this to map both joysticks to the same inputs within Mame itself.  Only do it for those select games though.

So for Ms Pac-Man, Mame will allow you to have two controls assigned to move her right (or any direction) and you would have those controls be Joy 1 and Joy 2 right.  They would both be able to move her.

Make sense?

--- End quote ---

I'll simplify:

redefine/remap your inputs so both joysticks control "player one"

--- End quote ---
Sometimes, I get a little wordy....  :P

 :lol

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