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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: ddoyle1996 on March 17, 2003, 09:33:53 am
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Is there any way to configure Mame so that games designed for only one joystick can use inputs from two sticks (one at a time)?
For example, the original Donkey Kong has a single stick. Two players can play, but they must share the single stick.
My Mame cabinet will have sticks for 2 players. In Donkey Kong with normal Mame settings, my understanding is that the players will still have to share the player 1 stick. The second player would be unable to use to player 2 stick because Donkey Kong isn't designed for use with multiple sticks.
I am wondering if it is possible to tell Mame that the players can use either joystick? I am using an Ipac for the encoder. Would it be possible to tell Mame that in Donkey Kong, either "x" or "y" means go up, where x is the up for player 1's stick and y is up for player 2's stick? I think I could also wire the player 2's stick to the Ipac's ports for player 1 through some kind of relay or switch, but I was hoping that I could avoid extra wiring.
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Call me crazy, but I thought that was the way it was set up by default.
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Is there any way to configure Mame so that games designed for only one joystick can use inputs from two sticks (one at a time)?
For example, the original Donkey Kong has a single stick. Two players can play, but they must share the single stick.
My Mame cabinet will have sticks for 2 players. In Donkey Kong with normal Mame settings, my understanding is that the players will still have to share the player 1 stick. The second player would be unable to use to player 2 stick because Donkey Kong isn't designed for use with multiple sticks.
I am wondering if it is possible to tell Mame that the players can use either joystick? I am using an Ipac for the encoder. Would it be possible to tell Mame that in Donkey Kong, either "x" or "y" means go up, where x is the up for player 1's stick and y is up for player 2's stick? I think I could also wire the player 2's stick to the Ipac's ports for player 1 through some kind of relay or switch, but I was hoping that I could avoid extra wiring.
I do believe you can set up both X and Y to both be "UP" for just donkey kong..
have you tried hitting TAB and then going to the current games control settings? I do believe you can have more than one key be a certain button..
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I do believe you can have more than one key be a certain button..
Yes you can configure both joysticks to be player1 at the game level, this does mean that if player 2 moves his stick while player 1 is playing it will mess him up.
Why not just share stick 1? Its seems like a lot of extra work and player 2 is going to play with his stick while player 1 is playing. Thats just the way things are, no way is playing 2 going to stand there holding his stick and not play with it.
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Thats just the way things are, no way is playing 2 going to stand there holding his stick and not play with it.
That sounds really bad . . .
You can also set multiple keys to the same input using controller.ini files. See www.mameworld.net and the links to EasyEmu for help setting them up.