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Title: Controls.dat - Quick and Dirty
Post by: chrisindfw on April 24, 2004, 01:09:32 pm: Where can I get the Controls.Dat file?

Also, how about the Controls.xml file?
Title: Re:Controls.dat - Quick and Dirty
Post by: TalkingOctopus on April 24, 2004, 01:10:29 pm: http://fe.donkeyfly.com/controls/controls.php (http://fe.donkeyfly.com/controls/controls.php)
Title: Re:Controls.dat - Quick and Dirty
Post by: chrisindfw on April 24, 2004, 03:38:02 pm: Thanks!

That only has 495 games in it. Is there a file that tells the inputs of each game?

Thanks
Title: Re:Controls.dat - Quick and Dirty
Post by: TalkingOctopus on April 24, 2004, 04:41:34 pm: The controls.dat is still a work in progress. You might want to check out the sort info tool. It may have some of the information you are looing for.

http://hem.passagen.se/robert.palmqvist/Downloads/downloads.html (http://hem.passagen.se/robert.palmqvist/Downloads/downloads.html)
Title: Re:Controls.dat - Quick and Dirty
Post by: krick on April 26, 2004, 12:41:07 am: What is "controls.dat" for?
Title: Re:Controls.dat - Quick and Dirty
Post by: SirPoonga on April 26, 2004, 12:51:57 am: It's in the FAQ for controls.dat. Documenting the controls used by games in mame.

ok, 505 game directly supported, 1044 indirectly supported.

chris, the xml file is broken, I am going to try and fix it soon. Just delete the offending chars that are causing the probs.
Title: Re:Controls.dat - Quick and Dirty
Post by: Tiger-Heli on April 26, 2004, 06:52:16 am: Quote from: krick on April 26, 2004, 12:41:07 am
What is "controls.dat" for?
Like Sir Poonga said, basically, you fire up a game in MAME, you can tell it uses four buttons, but what do they do? That's what you use controls.dat for.

Also, eventually, it should be incorporated into a frontend, so that if you have an image of your CP and label locations for each button, the frontend will tell you what each button does.