Can't get CTRLR files to work

[Jakobud]

Well I used to be running Mame 0.61 in my cabinet.  I was using ctrlr files and everything was working fine.  Then I backed up everything and reinstalled Windows 2000 on my cabinet since I got a new hard drive for it.  Anyways, I upgraded to Mame 0.63 and now I can't get the ctrlr files to work anymore.  In my Mame.ini I have the ctrlr_directory set to c:\mame\ctrlr and in that same folder I have all my ctrlr ini files.  I have a default.ini in there that is set to work for my custom control panel setup.  But Mame never see's it.  It's always got the default Mame keys setup.  I also tried deleting my default.cfg file for Mame. But that didn't make a difference.  Any thoughts or ideas?

[SirPoonga]

Try the command line way of doing it.  "mame -ctrlr myctrlr somegame"

ok, in your ini file if that works you should have.

ctrlr_directory           ctrlr
ctrlr                           myctrlr

[Jakobud]

Okay Poonga, that didn't work.  When I do this:

mame -ctrlr ctrlr\default.ini shdancer

Then the game runs and the buttons are not correct, and when I exit it gives the fps like normal.

I can post my default.ini ctrlr file if you want but I know there is nothing wrong with it, unless ctrlr ini formats have changed since 0.61...

Nevermind I got it. Thanks

[SirPoonga]

make sure verbose is in the mame.ini file, that ay you see what files the game parsed.

Glad you figured it out:)

For those that read this and have trouble, the commandline he posted was WRONG!

Let's say you have c:\mame\ctrlr\mycabinet

The command line would be
mame -ctrlr mycabinet somegame

[Jakobud]

Yes that's what confused me.  I forgot that the 'ctrlr' that you specify has to have it's own 'directory' called that same thing (it's case-sensitive) and then all your ini's would be in that folder and the default.ini has the have the ctrlrname set to the same name as the folder (again, case-sensitive).