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Title: A few issues upgrading from older MAME: CFG files, and Mouse Button assignment
Post by: Justin on February 16, 2023, 06:03:26 pm

Im upgrading my MAME cab entirely after 20 years...

A couple of issues:

1) CANT ASSIGN MOUSE CLICK:  In most games when I try to assign the MOUSE CLICK button (left or riight), it will ignore my assignment.   I hit ENTER for the entry such as P1 FIRE, and when I hit the mouse click to assign, it does nothing.
However, after testing around, I found that if the game itself is set up for analog input (Tempest) then it WILL allow me to assign the mouse click as an input.  Weird.
I can say for sure in the older versions of MAME I was able to assign the mouse button to ANY game.     This is crucial to me because my cabinet has 2 control buttons tied to 2 mouse buttons.
I tested on my home PC with a regular mouse, and same issue.  Anyone knoe what the deal is?
EDIT:  I figured it out...  the mame.ini needed mouse enabled as input device:

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#
# CORE INPUT OPTIONS
#
coin_lockout              1
ctrlr                     
mouse                     1

2) CFG FILE FORMAT CHANGE:  My old CFG folder has several unique CFG files for special button assignments for particular games.   I copied them all over, but I think newer versions of MAME utilize a slightly different format for CFG files.  In particular, it seems where before it would say:

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<port tag="IN0"it now prefers:

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<port tag=":IN0"Note the extra colon...

Title: Re: A few issues upgrading from older MAME: CFG files, and Mouse Button assignment
Post by: abispac on February 18, 2023, 11:55:24 pm

On the config files, if they are personal to each game, you gonna have to redo em again. I has the same problem, and as far as i know, and i might be wrong, theres no way around.

Title: Re: A few issues upgrading from older MAME: CFG files, and Mouse Button assignment
Post by: Justin on February 19, 2023, 08:59:27 am

Quote from: abispac on February 18, 2023, 11:55:24 pm

On the config files, if they are personal to each game, you gonna have to redo em again. I has the same problem, and as far as i know, and i might be wrong, theres no way around.

I downloaded notepad++ and did a global find / replace of the entire cfg folder to add the colon.  Worked like a charm!