Tab menu not working in MAME 037 or FBA

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Tab menu not working in MAME 037 or FBA

Post by triggerhappy » Sun Nov 01, 2020 5:38 pm

I can't use the Tab key to activate the settings menu in games running under MAME 037 or FBA. How can I enable it?

Also, I'm not able to locate the folder where the default and per-game .cfg files are stored for FBA. I see the .cfg files in ~/.mame037/mame2000/cfg for MAME 037, but I don't know where to find them for FBA. :(

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Re: Tab menu not working in MAME 037 or FBA

Post by dee2eR » Mon Nov 02, 2020 12:36 am

FBA doesn't have a tab menu. It also doesn't use MAME style config files.

037 should have a MAME tab menu... I'll have to look into whats happening though as I don't really use 037 any more.

Are you on ARpiCADE 3.X?

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Re: Tab menu not working in MAME 037 or FBA

Post by triggerhappy » Mon Nov 02, 2020 4:29 pm

Yeah, still running 3.X. Was having some control mapping issues in FBA and 037, but I think I got them ironed out via the Retroarch configs. I was just wondering why Tab menus weren't working for me.

If you get a chance, let me know if the Tab menu works in 037 for you, so at least I'll know if it's something on my end.

Thanks :)

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Re: Tab menu not working in MAME 037 or FBA

Post by VeryApe121 » Wed Nov 18, 2020 3:20 am

Nevermind, found a post further down. F1 for the fba menu.

Were you able to figure out how to get into the fba menu? I was testing some games tonight and couldn't figure it out either. P1+down did pause it though.

Using 3.X image.

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Re: Tab menu not working in MAME 037 or FBA

Post by dee2eR » Thu Nov 26, 2020 5:36 am

Default shortcut for the FBA menu is start+b6

Tried Truxton in MAME0.037 and the MAME menu worked for me, both with 'tab' and 'start+joy_right'. Not sure what's happening there for you, what game(s) are you running in 037? It could be game specific.

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