JoyToKey & HyperSpin - Controlls for games now acting like HS controls

[jevansoh]

I just set up JoyToKey following the great tutorial on this site and all is well as far as controlling HS with my xbox 360 gamepad, but now, when I enter a game and press button b, for example, it's as if I'm pressing enter on the keyboard instead of button b.  I did set button b to be enter for HyperSpin, but the problem is it has taken over the in game controls, too, so now I can't play any games.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

--J

[jevansoh]

Ok, I figured out this problem but now I have another problem...

Everything works fine now until I exit a game.

Once I exit a game, only the keyboard responds.  The gamepad no longer responds at all.

The only thing I can do is exit HS (via KB) and open it back up again.  Then everything works fine including selecting a game, playing it, and exiting it...Then it starts all over.

If I can get this figured out, with your help, I will finally have my system about 99% working!!

Thanks,

--J

[vinorosso]

I have this issue too - escape joystick button in HS also jumps me out of in MAME. When I quit a game, the joystick no longer runs the HS wheels at all. How did you fix the first post issue?

[Yeuxkes]

You should avoid setting the joystick, spinner and trackball controls in HyperHQ. Instead rely on JoytoKey or Xpadder for controlling Hyperspin. You can achieve this by setting up a controller profile in Rocketlauncher for your frontend. For starting the profile when you launch HS you can rely on the Hyperspin startup script.

[demonseed]

What was the fix?

[jevansoh]

The fix was making sure a separate profile was created and set up for HyperSpin and RocketLauncher, plus a default profile.

As long as you have those three profiles set up you should be good to go.

I've not had any further problems.  When I start HS, the HS profile in JoyToKey is automatically loaded.  When I launch a game, the RL profile is automatically loaded and it is different in that it uses different button combinations I would never use in game/while playing a game, so it doesn't interfere with being able to enter/exit/control a game and actually play the game.

Hope this helps,

--J

[jevansoh]

I also started using the HyperSpin startup script for all the cool features it offers but have the Joystick feature in the script turned off and still use JoyToKey.