GP-Wiz49 question

[ppilot]

Hello all.  I have a quick, relatively silly question I was hoping someone can help me with.  I submitted the question throught the GroovyGameGear website and didn't receive a reply, which doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.

Anyway, on my I-Pac, to escape out of the various emulators, I hold down the '1 player start' button and press the '2 player start button.'  The GPWiz49 says it has '5 shiftable inputs'.  Can I set it up to do the same thing that the I-Pac does?

Thanks much!

[Flinkly]

you can program almost any key to do almost anything you want, it just depends on how the computer see's it and what program has to see that input.  i'd just stick with the ipac doing it though, don't fix it if it isn't broken.

[mahuti]

The GPWiz49 has something similar to the "shazaam" key found on the other products, but it is a dedicated key without any other function... so it's not quite the same. I prefer the iPac method myself... so I just never got rid of my iPac.

[SirPoonga]

This is actually what is keeping me from getting a gpwiz49.  I haven't spent time to figure out how deal with my admin buttons on the shelf (see my cabinet, WWW link in profile).

If I got two gp49s I'd want to get rid of the ipac, no need for all that input.  But being that my coin, start, pause, and quite button are seperate formt he control panel is the problem.  I might just do a keyboard hack for those.  That way only one cord will have to come out of the removable control panel.

[mahuti]

If you're only going to use GGG products, you could wire the shazaam key to another function (like 1) and map mame to require 1+esc to escape. You'd have to do that with all "shifted" inputs. (1+tab) (1+enter) etc.

[ppilot]

If you're only going to use GGG products, you could wire the shazaam key to another function (like 1) and map mame to require 1+esc to escape. You'd have to do that with all "shifted" inputs. (1+tab) (1+enter) etc.

I think other emulators (daphne comes to mind) need to use the 'esc' key

[ppilot]

I take that back (I'm at work and can't look at this stuff right now.)  I think my issue with it was that you can't remap the escape to multiple keys.