Button help for games....

[Alcathiax]

Somewhere in all my wandering I saw somebody that had pics that you could bring up for each game on which buttons did what. First off...if this is something commonly out there it would be called ? (not snaps, titles, movies, etc...but ).

Secondly...is this frontend or mame specific? In other words...can you only see these files in the frontend / mame / both? (Assuming this is even generally available).

[Congui]

Hi there.

I think what you're looking for are control panel views.  A few that pop up in my head are: Johnny5 (J5) from Howard Casto and CPviewer.  I use J5.

What they do is that, using a controls.dat file you can view which button do what.  Very ingenious really.

They are not front-end exclusive, but they do need a bit of thinkering to be used from within the emulator itself (you need an ahk script).  Just do a search for j5 or cpviewer in the forum; believe me, there's a lot of info here.

Sorry that I couldn't help more.

Cheers,
Congui

[mccoy178]

The Wiki is your friend:

http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Other_Software