Main > Main Forum

I'm an idiot

<< < (3/7) > >>

paigeoliver:
Yes the vertical games would best be served by using the controls on the sides of the cabinets (especially since most vertical games flip for cocktail mode), while the horizontal games would go best on side control panel (which I am assuming has two player spots on it).

Of course there will be exceptions. Some (GOOD) vertical games are 2 player simultaneous. You can either play them from the horizontal size and have them not take up the whole screen, or you can remap the player 2 vertical side so the person can properly control the game that he is viewing upside down.

I personally tend to set up controls manually for each game, although there are some ways to automate that process a bit via cntlr files and such. But there are so many "exceptions" that I just like to tweak them myself.

JamIt:
You're not an idiot.  Gauntlet is reason enough to alone to wire up 4 joysticks independently.  Of course I'm assuming that you want to play Gauntlet; if not then apparently I've misjudged your idiocy  ;D
--JamIt

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: jedimason on February 11, 2004, 01:56:09 am ---So,

Are you saying it would be easy to have all the vertical games use the 1st and 2nd player controls on each side of the cabinet, but on horizontal games have the 1st and 2nd controls be the two(3&4) on the third control panel box.

I've just started to play around with mamewah and don't no too much about setting up multiple games with the same inputs.  Can you not create a list of certain games that use the same inputs(2 seperate folders for vertical and horizontal games)?

--- End quote ---
See http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/mamecontrolini.htm

for an introduction to controller.ini files.  I don't know of a way to make a "vertical.ini" file, but if a game uses the same button layout, you can simply copy the existing gamename.ini file and rename it and it will work with the new game.

NoOne=NBA=:
It is my belief that you can never have too many button CONNECTIONS available.
I've seen some control panels with too many BUTTONS, but never too many button CONNECTIONS.

Something else to consider is that you may want to put more than one joystick/player.
There are some great 2-P simultaneous games that use more than one joystick/player (Assault and Smash TV, notably--but also alot of the tank games and such).

jedimason:
So I have my ipac4 hooked up to each individual controller(1-4) on standard mame settings.

So I have the default config which will be set up for the with 1 and 2 players on the side panel and 3 and 4 on each end.

Then I add another .ini with the configuration of the 3 and 4 players as the 1 and 2 for the vertical games...

All I have to do is use that same config with all of the vertical games and everthing should work out.  I just have to make hundreds of them with the name of the individual game's title.

Is this correct?

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page

Go to full version