Re-Assigning internal MAME keys

[grounded]

Is there any way I can re-assign the QUIT button inside MAME to use "F12" instead of "ESC" ?? This way it will match the QUIT button on my NES emulator (which can't use ESC for some reason ((virtualNES))

Thanks,

[Jakobud]

Press TAB, goto the menu to redefine keys.  It's in there somewhere.  Careful what you change though, you can accidentally screw up some stuff where you won't be able to get out of the menu (or won't be able to bring it back up again).  If that happens just delete default.cfg.

[grounded]

There is no QUIT or ESCAPE on that list "input general

Any other ideas?

[Brad Lee]

UI Cancel is what you're looking for, it's what exits from the <tab> menus, as well as the game itself

[u_rebelscum]

You might want to use the ctrlr ini files method instead of the cfg/cfg (TAB) method.  Sometimes you have to redo the TAB changes with each new version of mame; ctrlr ini files are designed to be cross version compatable.

mame.ini:
ctrlr_directory ctrlr
ctrlr virtual_nes

make a folder called ctrlr/virtual_nes/ inside the mame folder.  ("virtual_nes" can be anything you want as long as it matches in the mame.ini file)

Open a text editor and put:
UI_CANCEL               "KEYCODE_F12"

and any other changes you want (look at ctrlr/std.ini to see what you can change).  You only need to put what you want different.

Save file in the ctrlr/virtual_nes/ folder as "default.ini"  Finished.

Read docs/ctrlr.txt and http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/mamecontrolini.htm for more info.