Keycodes or Key mapping list for different emulators and games

[eytzni]

Hi,

I apologize in advanced if this was posted before I did search the site but found no answear..
I just finished building my first cabinet I’m using “I-PAC4 Board” and “Maximus Arcade” as my frontend.

I want it to be able run different consoles games (Mame using MAME32, Atari using MESS, Sega using KEGA Fusion, Commodore using WinVice, Nintendo using Nestopia or Nintendo 64)  every console has its own key mapping so my question is where can I find a list of key mapping per console or emulator so I can program my ipac?

10x   

[Miguelsluma]

i think you could better handle it the other way around.
set up your ipac, and with that configuration just set up the keys of each of your emulators

[u_rebelscum]

Yeah, if the other emus are remappable like mame, I'd do what Miguelsluma said.  If they aren't, well, you pretty much have to change ipac.

Mame's (and mess's) defaults map is in the source (online file with the info).  Not the cleanest list, though; might be easier to read by just starting mame and tabbing into "Input (general)" and browsing that.  Not sure about the other emus.

Note that mame doesn't have default keys for player2 buttons 5 & 6, and none of the buttons for players 3 & 4.  You'll have to remap these in mame if you have them on your CP.  Just so you know you're remapping mame a bit anyway you do it.

Also, I suggest looking into ctrlr files for mame, if you want special remaps for different games, and want slightly better cross version compatibility and more mame crash corruption protection.  Might be a little more than you need, though.