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Title: Nestopia - Zapper Button Input
Post by: markronz on January 20, 2011, 09:50:12 am

So I use Nestopia for my NES emulation.   When playing a Zapper game like Dunk Hunt for example, I've noticed that to shoot I have to left click.   I was just wondering if anyone knew if there was a way to configure what button is the fire button?   I would rather set another one of my buttons to be the fire button since my mouse buttons aren't available on my control panel.   I know how to set the inputs for everything else in Nestopia, but don't see that option any where.  It seems weird that you can reconfigure all the other inputs but not that one.   Any one know if its possible?  Is it just just something that I'm missing?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Nestopia - Zapper Button Input
Post by: markronz on January 20, 2011, 05:05:13 pm

I was trying to get creative with an AHK script, but that doesn't appear to work either.   I did the following in an AHK script:

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~c::
Process, Exist, nestopia.exe
If (ErrorLevel != 0) ; If it is running
   {
    Send {Click}
   }
return
So every time you press my player 1 button 1 (which is the keyboard letter 'c') it was supposed to send a left click at the mouses current position.   But only do this when nestopia is running.    Unfortunately, this did not work.  For some reason this script does work, just not in Nestopia.   Like if I press 'c' in notepad (with Nestopia running in the background) it will still type a 'c' and the cursor will click wherever the mouse is currently posistioned.  But when nestopia is in focus, this simulated left click doesn't register for some reason.   So yeah, I have no idea why that doesn't work, but I'm back to square one.   If anyone has any creative ideas of how to correct this, please let me know!