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Is there a chart of what controls each game wants?
waname:
Here are two sentences of background, followed by the question:
I'm building a "legacy" (mostly old games) MAME setup for a friend who's not real computer literate. My plan is to use AdvanceCD because you can't screw up the hard drive no matter what, and I can build a CD with 20 configured games to begin with, then configure more games later, and so on. No sense in overloading the kids with choices.
I don't remember that much about arcade games, though I used to play a bunch. Is there any chart that says:
Pacman: 1 4-way joystick, coin, P1 start, P2 start
Missile Command: 1 trackball, (shoot, I don't even remember what buttons!) coin, P1 start, P2 start
Och! I was going to list some more, but I honestly don't remember button layouts!
At the moment, we're focusing on the older games, so I don't feel a need to clutter the setup with more buttons than necessary. If this thing is a big hit with the kids, we can upgrade the system.
AdvanceCD seems like a great way to go, with an automatic front end, and so on. And if power goes out, I don't get a call about Windows not booting. True, they can't save high scores. That's probably OK.
And I know that I'm going to need some extra buttons for controlling the AdvanceCD frontend. Looks like you can highlight a game with the P1 joystick, but to actually start it you need to press the Enter key, which I don't think is a standard MAME button.
Thanks for listening- my real hope is if I can find a resource that shows the controls needed, and maybe even some of the layouts that were used. (My secret hope is to one day play Gondomania again.)
Wan
Tiger-Heli:
Well, the answer may be more complicated than your question:
If you go into the Tab - Inputs this game menu in MAME, it will tell you what buttons MAME thinks the game needs - "This game uses P1 buttons 1 through 4".
If you get the controls.dat (which is really controls.ini or controls.xml) file from http://fe.donkeyfly.com/controls/controls_dat.php it will tell you "What MAME calls Button 1 is really "Jump" on the CP.
If you get the control panel image packs from http://www.mamehot.net/php/stuff.php?stuff=panel , you can see how the buttons were arranged, and maybe even what they did. "Jump was a blue button on either side of the joystick." (Lots of files, though).
Then there are viewers like CPMaker and Johnny5 that will overlay an image of your CP so you know "The red button is "Jump"", but these are fairly hard to configure (but ultimately worth the effort).
But, no, there isn't a direct way to get what you are asking for.
waname:
Wow- thank you. Looks like those two sites have everything I need. Those would probably go well in the FAQ.
Yep- it's a lot of files, but the info is there and I can puzzle through it.
I tried finding CPMaker but googling CPMaker MAME just brought me back here! Oh well! I'll have to muddle through with whipping up some directions for each game (another reason to deliver only a dozen or so games to begin with.)
Again, thanks for taking the time.
Wan
SirPoonga:
Search the software forum for CP maker.
Tiger-Heli:
Here some motivation for setting up Johnny5 or CPmaker (if the pic shows up).
This is Howard C's default layout in EmuLoader, which means you have to create individual images for each game, but the results are awesome.
BTW, MAMEWAH and some other frontend can generate these automatically, and Buddabing has a patch in the software forum to display these when you pause a game.
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