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Title: remaping visual pinball keys.
Post by: animatorJustin on February 25, 2010, 03:22:01 pm

I was wondering how anyone changed the default buttons in visual pinball or pinmame. ive seen it done, but cant find out where to change the keys. im using USB Gpwiz 40 interface any help would be great

Title: Re: remaping visual pinball keys.
Post by: Dazz on February 25, 2010, 03:24:16 pm

Open up Visual Pinball.  Click Preferences > Keys

Title: Re: remaping visual pinball keys.
Post by: animatorJustin on February 25, 2010, 03:36:47 pm

i have tried that but it wont recognize the buttons being pushed

Title: Re: remaping visual pinball keys.
Post by: Dazz on February 25, 2010, 06:52:01 pm

are you trying to map keys like ctrl/alt?

Title: Re: remaping visual pinball keys.
Post by: animatorJustin on February 25, 2010, 09:31:21 pm

nope, im trying to map the buttons to my control panel, which is scene as a USB game Controller

Title: Re: remaping visual pinball keys.
Post by: BadMouth on February 25, 2010, 09:55:15 pm

I'm not familiar with Visual Pinball, but if Future Pinball (same author) is any indication, it isn't made to work with a gamepad.
You'll have to install a keystroke emulator like Joy2Key or Xpadder.  (google it)

It will allow you to map the gamepad keys to keyboard keys.

Title: Re: remaping visual pinball keys.
Post by: animatorJustin on February 25, 2010, 10:09:18 pm

awsome that seemed to work, hope it didn't mess with the rest of my cab