KE72 macros and MAME

[Farch]

Hello all,

I'm having a problem and I searched the board and didn't find anything on KE72 macros, sooo...
I just finished my MAME machine (yeah!). It was an old Frenzy cabinet, which is fairly narrow, so I'm tight on control panel space. One idea I had was to make the player 1 & 2 start buttons macro to the keypresses 5-1 and 6-6-2 respectively.

So in my KE72 config file I have:
INXX:[5][1]
INYY:[6][6][2]

I've tested them in notepad and they work fine, in MAME 99% of the time nothing happens, 1% of the time I get a coin insert or a player start.

I've also tried a delay between the keys of 1 second:
INXX:[5][(D)100][1]
INYY:[6][(D)100][6][(D)100][2]

Still nothing. I have them now defined to be keypressed 1 & 2 and that works fine. My next try will be defining the key down and key up.

Anyone ever try this and get it to work?

On another topic, joysticks: do I want to define the keys as repeats <R> or key-down/key-up?

Sorry to register and start asking questions...but I've been lurking for about 2 months