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Title: Xpadder or Joy2Key- Which is better?
Post by: Red on December 29, 2008, 01:59:00 am

I'm thinking about using either Xpadder or Joy2Key for nullDC and I was wondering which is better, or more preferred?  Thanks.

Title: Re: Xpadder or Joy2Key- Which is better?
Post by: Ginsu Victim on December 29, 2008, 11:17:46 am

I used Joy2key for a long time, then recently tried Xpadder. I'll never use Joy2key again. Xpadder is SOOOOOOOOOO much better. I love it.

Title: Re: Xpadder or Joy2Key- Which is better?
Post by: Red on December 29, 2008, 01:43:50 pm

Quote from: Ginsu Victim on December 29, 2008, 11:17:46 am

I used Joy2key for a long time, then recently tried Xpadder. I'll never use Joy2key again. Xpadder is SOOOOOOOOOO much better. I love it.

Thanks.  Much appreciated.  I'll give Xpadder a try.

Title: Re: Xpadder or Joy2Key- Which is better?
Post by: Space Fractal on January 10, 2009, 07:31:30 am

I checked xpadder today, but I cant use that in my cab, because it only support 1 joystick (why?), while joy2key support 16. I diddent find any way to get the second joystick to work.

So for my cab I have only one choice, I still use Joy2Key, since it acutely work as it should and no more, even the interface is much better in XPadder.

Title: Re: Xpadder or Joy2Key- Which is better?
Post by: gonzo90017 on January 10, 2009, 01:59:53 pm

You need to make a profile  (known as cfg in joytokey) for each controller.
To configure it you click on the 2nd controller then assign the keys like normal.
(http://www.marcianitos.org/ficheros/tutorial/2802/19.jpg)

Then from the command line, to load both profiles at the same time you would do it like this.

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xpadder.exe mame mame2pmame being the first player's profile
mame2p being the 2nd player's profile.

I made a tutorial here (http://www.marcianitos.org/tutoriales/xpadder-tutorial-uso). (spanish)

Title: Re: Xpadder or Joy2Key- Which is better?
Post by: Space Fractal on January 11, 2009, 10:09:58 am

he-he, I didn't notice these buttons, simply because they did not have any icon or text on these buttons in my version. That is property why I trougch it only support one joystick.

Xpadder seen to been a very cool application I put in my cab and have a better interface than Joy2Key.

Otherwice if you dosent need to reprogrammering, Joy2key do also work fine.