Street Fighter IV Arcade (PC VERSION) with MAME controls (iPac)

[mike boss]

I'm setting up my newest project and I've installed Street Fighter IV Arcade PC Version.
Without my iPac and control panel assembled I tried to configure the controls.
I wanted them to match (as best they could) the iPac key codes.
I noticed that the controls had more than 14 buttons used, 14 being the amount on my control panel (2 players,  8 way joysticsk, 6 buttons per side, player 1 & 2 start) .

I had thought that I could eliminate the use of some buttons, for example Large (Heavy) punch, and use the S-M-L Punch + Kick combo buttons. Anyway when trying it seems I could not do that. Also some buttons that the iPac uses are used for something else and would not let me change them.

Am I missing something ?
Does some form of tool exist that will help me ?
Does anyone have SFIV Arcade set up and use an Ipac ?

Any and all help would be great.

[BadMouth]

Remapping the keyboard controls in SFIV and SSFIVAE are screwey.
Don't bother trying to remap them in the game itself.
See the fix stickied at the top of this forum.

Capcom claimed they had fixed the keyboard issues in SSFIVAE, but I ended up having to use the same fix for it as the previous game.

[mike boss]

Thanks BadMouth.
I had tried prior to re-map them in game, but I noticed I could not eliminate the use of some buttons.
As mentioned I had thought it was perhaps a good idea to not use HEAVY punch and instead replace with the L-M-H Punch button (doing the same for kick).
This way I would not exceed the 14 buttons on my control panel.

I'll re-read the above info and look a lil more on the Capcom Unity site.
I'd love for SSFIV to work on my MAME cabinet.

[Endprodukt]

Badmouth, how do you skip to the menu via you control panel in SF4AE ?

[BadMouth]

Badmouth, how do you skip to the menu via you control panel in SF4AE ?

I haven't bypassed anything but there were some hacks out there to bypass the intro on the origintal SFIV.
It's been a long time since I messed either one.  I don't even remember what the process is for getting to the menu. 

But I do know that my player 1 start button is mapped to the xbox controller start button using the solution in the stickied thread.
I just navigate to the menu the same way you would with an xbox controller; by pressing "start" and "A"
I also remember creating an "offline" profile so the game doesn't have to connect to games for windows live.

[mike boss]

I'm going to mess with this on the weekend.
I really want this to work for me.
Would be so AMAZING to have SSFIV AE working on my MAME cabinet.
As I mentioned I have the iPac VE and a 3 over 3 button layout.

[BadMouth]

As mentioned I had thought it was perhaps a good idea to not use HEAVY punch and instead replace with the L-M-H Punch button (doing the same for kick).
This way I would not exceed the 14 buttons on my control panel.

I guess I'm not really getting what your question is.
I mapped Start to my P1 start button, Select to my Coin button, & the standard 6 buttons found on the arcade cab.
IIRC, there were two other buttons available to be mapped that would post all punch buttons or all kick buttons.
I didn't map those and didn't see where they were necessary.
I just figured they were added for the sake of using the other two shoulder buttons on the xbox controller.

All this was done using the workaround found in the sticky.
Mapping the controls in the game itself kept resulting in screwed up controls and IIRC, having to use the enter key to start the game.

[mike boss]

I follow what your saying now BadMouth.
I thought the combo buttons (all kicks/all punches) were required for special moves.
But I'd guess that pressing all three buttons @ the same time would yield the same result.
I like yourself have a credit button my cabinet, so I believe the above sticky solution should work for me.

[mike boss]

I also took a look @ the sample configuration file above and it only utilizes 6 of 8 buttons.
Looks like it doesn't make use of the RB & LB which I think are the LP-MP-HP and LK-MK-HK buttons.


Soooooo much info online, so many varied opinions, its sooo hard sometimes to make heads or tales of it.
Thats partly why I love sites like this.
The help of guys like BadMouth is invaluable.

[mike boss]

What I'm not looking forward to ...................... pulling the PC out of the Mario Bros to work on it.
But I know it's far more easy to work on the PC and do the tweaks @ my computer desk.
Fingers crossed I can get this SSFIV working !