Tired of changing MAME Controls everytime I play a new game

[Turbo Biscuit]

Everytime I change the default general input controls in MAME to correspond to my IPAC settings, it never saves it.  When I go to the config file for MAME, it only has the 1 player controls listed.  I can change those, but that still leaves 2,3, and 4 player controls unchanged.  Is there any way to get MAME to save the controller configurations when I change it in game?  I've searched around and couldn't find anything related to this.

I don't like the default IPAC and MAME controls because I've had people mash buttons on my cabinet and it ends up doing wierd stuff like ctrl+alt+direction on 1st player flips the screen in windows. 

Thanks!

[shateredsoul]

1. If you are using MameUI use the normal mame instead (I used mameui and I had issues with it saving controllers.. the mame you get from the official website may not have these issues).

2. Here's a thread where they posted a 4 player configuration, download it, copy and paste it to your file (or rename it to ma, and reconfigure it to match your controls)

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=100079.0

[Turbo Biscuit]

Wow thanks!  I think I'll just get the text file and remap everything.  That might be tedious but I reeaalllly don't want to mess with compiling the newest version of MAME.

[Lilwolf]

Why not just set the default values (input general)?  Its the first option in the list. 

This is what the game will use if there isn't a game specific values saved.