Key Config in Mame??

[Johnny]

Hi Guys,
Is there any way to change the keyboard settings in mame?? (been looking, can't find)
I need to change the fire button (Left Control) due to the use of an KVM Switch.

Thanx
Johnny

[x-wing]

When you load up a game, hit the Tab key.  Go into the General game settings and reconfigure any key you wish.  If you change the keys in the Game specific section, your changes will only be saved for that particular game.

[Johnny]

Thanx, x-wing

- Johnny

[Jakobud]

There is a better way to do this.

If you press TAB and go in and change the controls, those controls will be saved in the CFG files, which are non-ascii i.e. hard to edit outside of Mame.

In the DOCS folder read about the ctrlr.txt

It allows you to define default controls and game specific controls using editable INI files.  So you don't ever have to go back in and configure each game every time.  The thing is, when you just do in in Mame, the CFG most likely will not work when you upgrade to the next version of Mame.  But if you do everything with the INI files, those will work no matter what version of Mame you use (well...given that you use Mame 0.60 or above...which is the version in which this INI file thing was implemented).

Use the INI thing.  It gives you lots of control and it a lot quicker that doing everything game by game...

Jakobud

[Minwah]

Is there a way of retaining a game's analogue control sensitivity setting from the 'tab' menu?  This also is lost when a new MAME version comes along.

Or I just haven't figured it out yet

[u_rebelscum]

Is there a way of retaining a game's analogue control sensitivity setting from the 'tab' menu?  This also is lost when a new MAME version comes along.

Or I just haven't figured it out yet

That data is saved in the .cfg files.  Right now, only the inputs can be set with the ctrlr .ini files.

So that leaves three ways at the moment:

• copy the .cfg files with analog settings you want to keep to the new mame and hope they still work with the new mame (they should if no changes were made to the game driver)
• edit the game's drivers so their default values are those you want
• re-set the settings by hand each time

Hopefully in the near future, the ctrlr ini files will expand and save analog settings too, but until then ... [shrug]  The ctrlr stuff is new and still in developement, so there is hope.