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6 buttons per player?? player 2?
u_rebelscum:
Sort of OT, but mame's defaults are not designed for easy plug-n-play.
Some of mame's defaults that people run into:
-mouse disabled
-joystick disabled (keyboard enabled, so ipac/keypac wired joysticks work by default, but gpwiz/u360 don't by default)
-player 2 only has first four buttons with keys, even though player 1 has eleven keys.
-player 3 and up have not keys mapped.
-All eight players map joystick and 16 joystick buttons, but only player 1 has anything mapped to dual joysticks.
But the last three are what you get when there are over 500 inputs and only 104 keys on a keyboard, even with different inputs sharing keys.
G1zm0:
another question : how have you guys got it set up
we all say what the keys are but how are they assigned to the button lay out?
o o o ao bo co
o o o do eo fo
would a =ctrl/ b=alt/ c=space
d=left shift/ e=z/ f=x
and for p2
a=a b=s c=q d=w e=i f=k?
just want it set out so it plays the old 3 button games with ease without having to configure the buttons so it uses the closest keys
Hoopz:
A lot of people use
456
123
So your fingers use the bottom row for the games with 1, 2, and/or 3 buttons. For others, like the fighters, you use all of them. Most people prefer using the bottom row as its more comfortable than using the top because you aren't resting any part of your fingers or hands on a row of buttons.
You can try it out and see if it works well for you. If you don't like it whichever way you go, you can simply reconnect the wiring to the buttons to correct it or change the switches to different buttons underneath the CP instead of reprogramming Mame. That may be easier/faster depending on your setup.
AndyWarne:
This is the number 1 support request I get for I-PAC and other boards, ie no P2 button 5,6.
Its not the board of course...
It would be really good if the Mame devs could add mapping for these by default.
The defaults are not ideal, its a shame they chose Shift as this invokes StickyKeys and also ALT and CTRL are not ideal but probably too late to change those at this time. Guess those data right back to DOS days where it didnt matter.
Andy
u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: AndyWarne on October 01, 2008, 06:09:53 am ---This is the number 1 support request I get for I-PAC and other boards, ie no P2 button 5,6.
Its not the board of course...
It would be really good if the Mame devs could add mapping for these by default.
The defaults are not ideal, its a shame they chose Shift as this invokes StickyKeys and also ALT and CTRL are not ideal but probably too late to change those at this time. Guess those data right back to DOS days where it didnt matter.
Andy
--- End quote ---
Andy, you might want to include/make available a ctrlr file with i-pac2/4's defaults, like those included with mame for xarcade, hotrod and slikstik. Might make it easier for users to "fix the board's problem", but I admit I'm a little bias toward ctrlr files.
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