How to map keys for other emulators (other than MAME)?

[uptown47]

Hi all,

 

I'm just at the end of building my own cabinet and fired up MAME for the first time last night. It was superb but I also have Spectaculator so wanted to play an old Spectrum game too.

 

I launched Atic Atac but then realised that I can't play it as my joystick/buttons are mapped to MAME controls. I do have a keyboard in a 'hidden' drawer in my cabinet but would rather not have to keep getting the keyboard out to play Speccy games so just wondered if there is a solution to this?

 

Thanks for any help you can give me.

 

:-)

 

PS. If you are on the cusp of building a cabinet but not done it yet I can heartily recommend it. I've never done any woodworking before but I'm really pleased with the results and it was great to play some of the old classics last night :-)

[gigapig]

Oh no not Spectrum games, which I love oh course. You will need to set up the emulator to use one of the joystick adapters, the most popular being Kempston.

 

Atic Atac uses additional keys however so you will need a way to map those additional keys somehow. You have probably run the game and you need to select your character, Joystick type and also start the game using the number keys.

You can set up a per game profile in RLUI to use either xpadder or your chosen control method for the game. look under Keymapper in RLUI.

[uptown47]

Great stuff. Didn't realise you could set up 'per game' profiles. Will check it out.

Thanks again :-)

[maximo79]

Hi

 

 

I will recommend to change your config to run all your games on retroarch ( this one configure all the games with the controller automaticaly ) an keep the standalone emulator for exotic emulator ( not supported by retroarch like sega model 2-3 )

[uptown47]

Thanks for the info. I've never heard of retroarch but will check it out. Cheers :-)