i have a mame cab that i built which i thought was completely done, except....
i recently updated my mame32fx and dumped more marquees and cab pics into it
and now the hidden joystick

key which emulates a ESC command doesnt wotk.
My cab has three admin buttons hidden underneath the control panel. These are
little micro switches which are mapped to pause, credit and ESC.
The mame is configed to recognize these buttons except for the ESC key which I guess is
not mappable with MAME.
So i was using autohotkey to remap that joystick key to emulate ESC which gets me
out of the game without reaching for my wireless keyboard.
now that i updated to the latest version of mame32fx, the esc key is not emulated properly with AUTOHOTKEY.
It works in the windows environment, but it doesn't work in mame.
Any advice is greatly appreciated. It really bothers me that this used to work, and now
that I upgraded my Mame, its broken.
I know the button itself works,
the autohot key script is the same
and ESC is emulated everytime, except for in MAME when I need it.
I also installed JOY2KEY and it also doesnt work.
Thanks again for the great forum and I look forward to finding the answer.