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Title: Mame Button Change
Post by: Justen on June 16, 2006, 06:14:08 am

Hey All.
   Is it possible to change the default Mame button allocation? I would like to have a separate button for player credits and for starting a game/changing lists. As it is setup now people press the wrong buttons as they cant remember whats for what as some buttons (1 and 2) have 2 functions.
Can I just do it with the mame config file.
eg make '1' the button for start game and another unallocated key for player 1 start.
Thanks

Title: Re: Mame Button Change
Post by: Crowquill on June 16, 2006, 09:55:38 am

Shouldn't be a problem at all. Which version of MAME / Frontend are you using?

Title: Re: Mame Button Change
Post by: u_rebelscum on June 16, 2006, 06:35:09 pm

Quote from: Justen on June 16, 2006, 06:14:08 am

Hey All.
   Is it possible to change the default Mame button allocation? I would like to have a separate button for player credits and for starting a game/changing lists. As it is setup now people press the wrong buttons as they cant remember whats for what as some buttons (1 and 2) have 2 functions.
Can I just do it with the mame config file.
eg make '1' the button for start game and another unallocated key for player 1 start.
Thanks

Mame does remapping of keys used in-game while in-game (tab) or with a ctrlr file.  The MameFAQ  (http://www.mame.net/mamefaq.html#h03)has a good description of in-game remapping I'm too lazy to repeat ATM. ;)

But it also sounds like you are talking about possiblely remapping keys used outside of games.  Like Crowquill said, that depends on which frontend you're using.

Title: Re: Mame Button Change
Post by: Justen on June 16, 2006, 10:39:13 pm

Thanks guys.
It is outside of games that I want to change. I am using Mamewah as a front end.

Title: Re: Mame Button Change
Post by: Timoe on June 16, 2006, 10:55:09 pm

Then you can adjust the mamewah.ini file