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Help with Hotkeys
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 4:13 pm
by 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?
Re: Help with Hotkeys
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 6:43 am
by 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.
Re: Help with Hotkeys
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 7:47 am
by colonelsnow
dee2eR wrote: ↑Sun Sep 16, 2018 6:43 am
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.
Re: Help with Hotkeys
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:11 am
by 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.
Re: Help with Hotkeys
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:19 am
by colonelsnow
I tried reconfiguring in Mame. It works but it doesn’t save the change when I exit the game.
Re: Help with Hotkeys
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:24 am
by 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...
Re: Help with Hotkeys
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:32 am
by colonelsnow
Using Mame 172 and Arpicade 3.82
Re: Help with Hotkeys
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:36 am
by 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.
Re: Help with Hotkeys
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 7:01 pm
by colonelsnow
That fixed it. thanks