Help with Hotkeys

[colonelsnow]

I am using 3.82. I am trying to configure Player 1 start to send keyboard key 1 to start a game. Can't get it to work. (Pressing 1 on an attached keyboard works.)

The entry I made in hotkeys.ini is: START=key:KEY_1

Also is Player 2 start button able to be used in hotkeys? If so what is its name? Start2?

[dee2eR]

Not sure if you can do it with the hotkeys system as start held down already has a function, my best guess would have been to try what you already tried. Also at the moment the hotkeys system can only use player 1 inputs.

You could use a device tree overlay to make the button a key, assuming you need the keystroke rather than the joystick button input. What are you trying to do? Start button should start games for everything installed by default.

[colonelsnow]

Not sure if you can do it with the hotkeys system as start held down already has a function, my best guess would have been to try what you already tried. Also at the moment the hotkeys system can only use player 1 inputs.

You could use a device tree overlay to make the button a key, assuming you need the keystroke rather than the joystick button input. What are you trying to do? Start button should start games for everything installed by default.

Start button wasn’t working for me to start game.

Start button works for me to select game from Menu. Holding Start and A Inserts Coin. But then pushing Start to Start the Game does nothing.

[dee2eR]

Which emulator? No idea why it wouldn't be set but it's probably simpler to just set the start button again in MAMEs menus (assuming it's one of the MAME variants). If the start button is working in the menu it should be picked up by MAME.

[colonelsnow]

I tried reconfiguring in Mame. It works but it doesn’t save the change when I exit the game.

[dee2eR]

Should save automatically. Wierd...

Which version of ARpiCADE are you running and which MAME version? What game as well? I will look into it, no idea whats happening, start should have been configured by default...

[colonelsnow]

Using Mame 172 and Arpicade 3.82

[dee2eR]

Try replacing /home/pi/mame172/cfg/default.cfg with this one:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sF-v2 ... J2DnySz3-W

hopefully that gets it back to normal.

[colonelsnow]

That fixed it. thanks