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Title: ArcadeOS button remap?
Post by: KeithD on May 13, 2005, 08:07:09 pm

Hey there!

Glad to see all you guys are still out there.

I FINALLY got my cab together (after like 2 years of chasing it around the garage while I did other things).

Here's the deal:
I'm running ArcadeOS and MAME 37b14 together with the infamous MegaTap PSX adapter with 2 PSX pads inside the CP.

I have been unable so far to figure out how to change the button mapping on the PSX pads (or in ArcadeOS) so that I can do the things that I want it to do from the CP, and so that it WON'T do the things I DON't want it to do.

For example: The player 1 and 2 start buttons are connected to what the DPadPro reports as buttons 9 on the PSX pads. Button 9 on PSX pad 1 is Player 1 start, 9 on PSX pad 2 is player 2 start. This is fine in MAME, but in ArcadeOS, the player 1 start button tells it to open the menu same as Keyboard #1 and player 2 start button does nothing.

Similarly, the fire button on the CP acts as a fire button in MAME, but in AOS it tells it to start a random game. This gets EXTREEEEEMELY annoying when the kids are playing a game and suddenly all the games disappear because they changes which custom list is displayed or some such.

I did some searching, but was unable to find any kind of decent explanation of how to change it either in the ArcadeOS.cfg or anywhere else. How can I go about changing the mapping in AOS so that I can have the CP buttons do what I want them to in AOS?  Or do I need to rewire the buttons in the CP so that they make sense to AOS?

Thanks a bunch, and pics are coming, as soon as the digicam battery charges.

K

Title: Re: ArcadeOS button remap?
Post by: KeithD on May 18, 2005, 05:10:08 pm

Nothing?

Nobody has a clue?

Or was my question worded poorly...

 ???

Bump

K

Title: Re: ArcadeOS button remap?
Post by: SirPeale on May 19, 2005, 07:27:26 pm

By that you're using PSX pads, I'm guessing that your OS is Windows, that correct?

Both your frontend and Mame exe are DOS programs.

Title: Re: ArcadeOS button remap?
Post by: KeithD on May 19, 2005, 08:22:43 pm

Nope, I am using MAME 37b14 under DOS right now. The PSX pads are connected through the LPT1 with a MegaTap interface

I thought it would have to use Windows too, because of the DirectPad Pro driver, but I didn't think about that until I was already playing under DOS.

Made me wonder i it was sort of like learning to fly in Hitchhiker's Guide. "If you are sufficiently distracted, you will fail to remember to hit the ground"

K