ctrlr .ini in MAME...simple problem

[slider2732]

HI all...

I have a simple problem, one that I worked out the other day and now can't figure out again!
 

The summary is that a key change for "TILDE" results in both the key function I want AND the settings bar appearing at the bottom of the screen. There's no reference to the TILDE being for the settings bar now, it was changed to 'O' as the calling key, yet it still comes up.


Here's the rather bizarre situation that lead to the change. I was happily playing a game of Asteroids on my MAME'd Asteroids cab when 'thrust' stopped working. Checked over all the wiring and the keyboard controller hack. Nothing seemed out of place and all other controls worked. So I ran through other combinations on the connector strip i'd made on the side of the controller and  found that 'TILDE' was spare. Worked through a few how to's online for the ctrlr section of MAME and got the key changed. All was great.
Then the CF card I was running from died (no idea how, but I had been swapping out graphics cards and even though the mobo was off, the current was still going around it and maybe shorted something).
Anyway, put another card in and loaded it with the backup of the games I have on the Asteroids cab. Except of course the key change wasn't implemented yet.
I altered std.ini again in the ctrlr directory, saved it as ast.ini and then called ast from MAME.cfg...just as I had done the other time.
And now I have the problem, both 'thrust' and the settings menu work off the 'thrust' button.

Any help greatly appreciated.

[slider2732]

Truly bizarre now.
Changing mame.cfg to point to another directory entirely for the ctrlr doesn't change anything.
Renaming ast.ini, my changed file, to something else, doesn't make any change either !

It resolutley gives the Volume bar at the bottom and the thrust operation of Asteroids when tilde is pressed.

 

[headkaze]

The default for KEYCODE_TILDE is for UI_ON_SCREEN_DISPLAY, so you will have to assign that to something else in your cfg file I believe.

[slider2732]

Ta headkaze...
Yeah, I did that too lol
First of all I tried UI_ON_SCREEN_DISPLAY "KEYCODE_O" and then "CODE_NONE" (or very similar, the same as some other entries have).
Still the same. It does the tilde for thrust, but also still brings up the volume bar at the bottom.

[slider2732]

oh, while I remember. When you press TAB you get the edit options. Can those be saved permanently ?
It seems that these just alter things temporarily, on reboot they're lost.

[u_rebelscum]

oh, while I remember. When you press TAB you get the edit options. Can those be saved permanently ?
It seems that these just alter things temporarily, on reboot they're lost.

Cfg files (these are edited through tab) override the ctrlr file.  Try deleting (or moving/renaming) the cfg/default.cfg file (tab - "Inputs (general)"), and maybe the cfg/gamename.cfg (individual tab - "Input (this game)").  (You can hand edit the cfg files, too)