Controls.dat - Quick and Dirty

[chrisindfw]

Where can I get the Controls.Dat file?

Also, how about the Controls.xml file?

[TalkingOctopus]

http://fe.donkeyfly.com/controls/controls.php

[chrisindfw]

Thanks!

That only has 495 games in it. Is there a file that tells the inputs of each game?

Thanks

[TalkingOctopus]

The controls.dat is still a work in progress.  You might want to check out the sort info tool.  It may have some of the information you are looing for.

http://hem.passagen.se/robert.palmqvist/Downloads/downloads.html

[krick]

What is "controls.dat" for?

[SirPoonga]

It's in the FAQ for controls.dat.  Documenting the controls used by games in mame.

ok, 505 game directly supported, 1044 indirectly supported.



chris, the xml file is broken, I am going to try and fix it soon.  Just delete the offending chars that are causing the probs.

[Tiger-Heli]

What is "controls.dat" for?

Like Sir Poonga said, basically, you fire up a game in MAME, you can tell it uses four buttons, but what do they do?  That's what you use controls.dat for.

Also, eventually, it should be incorporated into a frontend, so that if you have an image of your CP and label locations for each button, the frontend will tell you what each button does.