Mame and "Enter AND Keypad Enter" etc.

[grafixmonkey]

  ok, this has been stumping me for a while but I always found a way to circumvent the issue, until now....  I can't find answers in the Mame docs either.

It turns out to really be best for my cab if player 1 button 1 is the Enter key.  But, if I ever have to hit tab and give a game a custom setup (like for mortal kombat), it's impossible to assign an input as just simply the Enter key.  It always gives it "Enter and Keypad Enter", so I have to push both at once on the keyboard for the button to work.  Same thing happens with "left shift and right shift", "left alt and right alt", etc. for every key that has a duplicate.
Why is this happening?

btw it happens with different keyboards, and both in ps2 and usb, and for multiple versions of mame that I've tried.

[Cave]

Apparently this is caused by assigning the keys while the game is paused try again while the game is running.

Cave

[Howard_Casto]

how to do it in ctrlr files:....

if you'll notice "or" keys are seperated with a "|"  to make an "and" replace the "|" with a single space

[SirPoonga]

Yep, sounds like a paused game.  Ctrlr files will not give you this problem  And they can affect groups of games to make life easier.

[grafixmonkey]

how to do it in ctrlr files:....

if you'll notice "or" keys are seperated with a "|"  to make an "and" replace the "|" with a single space

I've already done a lot with the ctrlr files, and gotten those working...  my problem is just the dozens of completely abberant games where I want a completely different config, just for that one game.  Like for Tempest, where my spinner is located it doesn't make sense for the buttons to stay in their normal layout and just add the spinner, and Tron is one of very few games that actually use the top fire button.  So it's nice to be able to fire up a game and just modify the config on the spot, especially since adding ctrlr files might be easy, but I have to exit the game and 3darcade, open up the Mame folder, do some copying and pasting, bring out the keyboard, type the new config manually, and then wait the considerable time it takes 3darcade to load.


Paused game??  Is that all it is???  You're kidding?
Amazingly simple, and I never ever would have tried it.