i-pac defaults vs emulators

[Tzakiel]

I am having some trouble... I am using an i-pac for my 2 player CP, and while mame works great, other emulators such as SNES9x reserve some of the same keys (especially number keys for coin, start, etc) for functions such as turning off background sprites, saving/loading states, etc.  SNES9x in particular is giving me trouble - I can't find anyway to change the hotkey settings. Is there anything I can do to fix this or do I need to re-flash the i-pac to use special keys unlikely to ever be hotkeyed?  Does anyone have suggestions for good key mapping if so?

I use:

exit, pause, coin1, coin2, start1, start2, 2 sanwa joysticks, 8 buttons per player

I had planned to use start1 for start and coin1 for select. Same for 2p start and select.

[spratkobasa]

You can change these keys in Snes9x to something else or even turn them off.

Go to Input menu -> customize hot keys -> then disable all of them if you want or the ones making trouble or assign to something else.  Same thing can be done in Zsnes in the misc menu

[Tzakiel]

You can change these keys in Snes9x to something else or even turn them off.

Go to Input menu -> customize hot keys -> then disable all of them if you want or the ones making trouble or assign to something else.  Same thing can be done in Zsnes in the misc menu

All I have under input is joypad configuration, and then some options to enable or disable mouse, scope, etc.  I don't see customize hot keys. This is snes9x 1.53

[Tzakiel]

Wow! Turns out I had 1.4 not 1.5... that first site to pop up on google is a sham!

[Fursphere]

Default IPAC setup = Default MAME setup

(L)shift, (L) ctrl, (L) alt keys are going to cause hell in windows based emulators. Context menus.  Accessibility stuff poping up (hit shift five times in a row), etc.   Its just bad.

[bearzilla333]

I know this is an old topic but it is precisely the problem I am having, my mame machine was great one player, then I tried to play fighting games with my friends and it loses control of the screen, is there a simple fix to turn off hot keys like the ctrl+button and alt+button? or do I need to just just reassign buttons in the i-pac software?, its been so long since I had to go into my windows OS its an 8.1 too. not looking forward to goin going under the hood 

[Howard_Casto]

The mame defaults are dumb and they should have been changed eons ago.  Remember mame started as a dos program, where ctrl and alt can do no harm.  It's default's were based upon the popular games of the day (think Doom).  Save yourself a headache and change them now. 

[BadMouth]

The first thing I do when setting up a new system is change the first four keys (CTRL, SHIFT, ALT, SPACE) then globally remap them in MAME.
IIRC, I change them to V,B,N,M (it's been a few years)
It saves a lot of headaches down the road.

I don't understand why people are so hung up on using the defaults.
It only makes sense if you plan on never running anything other than MAME.

[bearzilla333]

Thanks for reply I am fiddling with this now, I do need to remap those 4 keys in MAME and in the WiniPAC program as well?