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Title: genesis emulator that is configurable?
Post by: gully on March 08, 2006, 08:22:47 am

has anyone come across a genesis emulator that will work with mamewah that I can configure for my arcade controls?

i understand there is a version of gens (gens fe) that uses the escape key as a route to exit the emulator but unfortunately none of my controls are set up for the Esc key, and it is not configurable.

any ideas?

Title: Re: genesis emulator that is configurable?
Post by: big daddy on March 10, 2006, 04:09:01 pm

not that I'm aware of.  Most of the hacks of the emulators only hack to exit on escape, since most people have escape mapped on their cab.  You could always get the code, make the change,  and compile yourself.

Any reason why you can't just remap a key to that?  It's used as exit for mame, snes, nes, atari, genesis, etc.

Title: Re: genesis emulator that is configurable?
Post by: gonzo90017 on March 10, 2006, 11:12:57 pm

Well I had the same problem, since i'm going to work with either playstation or xbox joysticks for my bartop. And I wanted everything to work without having to pull out a mouse or keyboard each time. So I found a solution.  Almost all emulators also exit by pressing Alt+F4 so download joy2key http://interreality.org/~tetron/technology/joy2key/ then map Alt and F4 to 2 buttons on your control panel and WALA! Now all you have to do is also configure Mamewah to exit by pressing Alt+F4. Oh yeah next time post questions like this in the software forum you'll get more help there.

Title: Re: genesis emulator that is configurable?
Post by: gonzo90017 on March 11, 2006, 11:41:28 pm

Update. here's how you configure Mamewah to exit using Alt+F4
Go to  ctlr folder in your Mamewah folder, open default.ini with Notepad. Delete everything. (not default.ini just everything that's written inside)
This works great using Joy2Key. I mapped Alt to player 1 Select button
And F4 to player 2 Select button.  You can also change it to EXIT_AND_SHUTDOWN  "DIK_ESCAPE | DIK_LALT & DIK_F4" so when it exits Mamewah it just shuts down the PC (for Cabinets). That way no accidental pushing!Now just copy and paste everything below.

# MAMEWAH 1.6+ Standard Control Configuration

# PLEASE USE INPUT CODES FROM \MAMEWAH\DOCS\CTRLR.TXT
# NOTE DIFFERENCES TO MAME's (EX!) CTRLR INI FILES:
# 'NOT' (!) LOGIC NOT SUPPORTED
# 'AND' LOGIC EXPRESSED USING '&' (NOT SPACE)
# 'OR' PIPE '

Title: Re: genesis emulator that is configurable?
Post by: gully on March 15, 2006, 06:11:31 pm

thanks guys, i juyst managed to solve it by remapping the keys. not ideal but it worked!

cheers!