Handling Multiple Control Schemes with ZSNES and MAMEWAH

[starnix17]

OK.... all of my SNES games are on one list in MAMEWAH. However, I want certain games to use a different control scheme. The only way I can imagine doing this would be to either make a list for each control scheme in MAMEWAH or to change the files that list the games to execute a different ZSNES (but would that file get totally overwritten when I regenerated a list?). Anyways... I would like to keep to one list so I wanna stay away from the first option. Does any else know of any other ways I can pull this off?

[StephenH]

Maybe turn MAMEwah control options off for MAMEWah for SNES games, and set the controls for SNES games inside the ZSNES default preferences.  Since SNES games use 6 buttons, it is probably easy enough to permanetly assign joysticks and buttons for A,B,L,R,X and Y, for each player plus Start and Select.

[starnix17]

That's how I have it now, but my button configuration is good for some games and not for other. I would like to be able to use multiple configurations for different games.

[Minwah]

Perhaps you could have 2 versions of zsnes.cfg (or whatever the config file is called, with the key mappings in).  Then use a batch file to rename the file appropriately, based on the romname, and then launch zsnes.  The batch file would be your emulator_executable, rather than zsnesw.exe itself.

[starnix17]

Very good idea, only problem is I never worked with batch files, they're like shell scripts on UNIX right?

[Minwah]

Very good idea, only problem is I never worked with batch files, they're like shell scripts on UNIX right?

Dunno, I've never used Unix 

It's just stuff like you'd use at a commandline...just googled this:

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/Bat-Adv.html

[starnix17]

Yeah there sorta like shell scripts, that will work great. Thanks.