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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: Slippyblade on February 17, 2014, 05:02:30 pm

Title: Cancelling intro video in Mala
Post by: Slippyblade on February 17, 2014, 05:02:30 pm
So, I've got Mala all setup and it's working great.  I've got windows hidden with Mala as the shell.  Using Keith Apicary's Neo-Geo music video as an intro video and it all works great.

Except one thing.  When I have a keyboard plugged in, you can cancel out of the video no problem.  The controls don't do it though.  I am using a Xin-Mo encoder which is seen as two gamepads.  Sooo, it seems that gamepad input doesn't cancel the intro video, only keyboard input.  Is this correct and I've done something wrong?

Thanks in advance!
Title: Re: Cancelling intro video in Mala
Post by: SGT on February 17, 2014, 07:50:27 pm
I just tried it with Mala and a wireless Xbox 360 controller.  I used joytokey to map a gamepad button to Right-Shift.  This enabled me to to cancel the intro video with that button.  Not sure if there's a cleaner solution or not.
Title: Re: Cancelling intro video in Mala
Post by: Slippyblade on February 17, 2014, 07:55:26 pm
Totally forgot about JoyToKey!  When I get home from work I'll do that.  Thanks!
Title: Re: Cancelling intro video in Mala
Post by: Malenko on February 17, 2014, 08:37:35 pm
why not just disable the intro vid?
Title: Re: Cancelling intro video in Mala
Post by: Slippyblade on February 17, 2014, 08:59:55 pm
Quote from: Malenko on February 17, 2014, 08:37:35 pm
why not just disable the intro vid?
Cause I like the intro vid.   :dunno
Title: Re: Cancelling intro video in Mala
Post by: Slippyblade on February 18, 2014, 01:54:00 am
Hmm, JoytoKey would work except for one thing... I've got Mala config'd as the shell, so it loads before anything else.  So JoytoKey isn't loaded at that point and can't process joystick input. Back to the drawing board.
Title: Re: Cancelling intro video in Mala
Post by: SGT on February 18, 2014, 12:39:07 pm
Can you run joy2key as a service using SrvStart or something similar?
Title: Re: Cancelling intro video in Mala
Post by: Slippyblade on February 18, 2014, 12:51:51 pm
Quote from: SGT on February 18, 2014, 12:39:07 pm
Can you run joy2key as a service using SrvStart or something similar?

Worth a try.  I do that tonight.