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Title: Button help for games....
Post by: Alcathiax on May 18, 2006, 05:58:30 pm

Somewhere in all my wandering I saw somebody that had pics that you could bring up for each game on which buttons did what. First off...if this is something commonly out there it would be called ???? (not snaps, titles, movies, etc...but ???).

Secondly...is this frontend or mame specific? In other words...can you only see these files in the frontend / mame / both? (Assuming this is even generally available).

Title: Re: Button help for games....
Post by: Congui on May 18, 2006, 06:20:56 pm

Hi there.

I think what you're looking for are control panel views.  A few that pop up in my head are: Johnny5 (J5) from Howard Casto and CPviewer.  I use J5.

What they do is that, using a controls.dat file you can view which button do what.  Very ingenious really.

They are not front-end exclusive, but they do need a bit of thinkering to be used from within the emulator itself (you need an ahk script).  Just do a search for j5 or cpviewer in the forum; believe me, there's a lot of info here.

Sorry that I couldn't help more.

Cheers, :cheers:
Congui

Title: Re: Button help for games....
Post by: mccoy178 on May 18, 2006, 08:43:31 pm

The Wiki is your friend:

http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Other_Software (http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Other_Software)