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Mame - Menu - browsing games with gamepad
#315990 - 10/16/13 10:44 PM
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Hi,
I try to configure mame64 to use only a gamepad.
I have only one problem. When I want to switch games, I can navigate via the menu of mame to other games. But my list of games is longer than the menu can show, and I don't succeed to navigate to other (not-visible) game-entries using the gamepad.
The list of games in the menu changes only when i start typing a letter on the keyboard.
But I want to "scroll" through the list with the gamepad, so my kids can play on the tv using only the gamepad.
Anyone knows what I'm doing wrong? I tried to bind several buttons in the config menu, but none of them seem to do what I'm looking for.
Regards Nikias,
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Re: Mame - Menu - browsing games with gamepad
[Re: burninrubber]
#315992 - 10/16/13 11:19 PM
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if you dont find a solution, an alternative is you could use eg. mameui64, which allows you (in the ui before you launch mame itself) using your gamepad to choose any game and launch it, however you may need to find out the keycodes for your particular gamepad, as quite often the default keycodes in the mameui .ini file may not be the same as what your gamepad uses
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# NAVIGATION JOYSTICK CODES
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ui_joy_up 1,1,1,1
ui_joy_down 1,1,1,2
ui_joy_left 1,1,2,1
ui_joy_right 1,1,2,2
ui_joy_start 1,0,1,0
ui_joy_pgup 2,1,2,1
ui_joy_pgdwn 2,1,2,2
ui_joy_home 0,0,0,0
ui_joy_end 0,0,0,0
ui_joy_ss_change 2,0,3,0
ui_joy_history_up 2,0,4,0
ui_joy_history_down 2,0,1,0
ui_joy_exec 0,0,0,0
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Re: Mame - Menu - browsing games with gamepad
[Re: grog]
#316112 - 10/18/13 10:05 PM
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Thx for the answer.
Anyone else who has ideas? or knows if it's possible or not in mame64.
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> Thx for the answer.
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> Anyone else who has ideas? or knows if it's possible or not in mame64.
It's almost the same thing, except it's for the internal UI. Press TAB, select Input General, select User Interface. Remap the UI controls:
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Re: Mame - Menu - browsing games with gamepad
[Re: Sune]
#316116 - 10/18/13 11:28 PM
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That's what I use to map the gamepad. But no mapping does it.
It's actually the same with a keyboard.
You can't navigate outside of the listed games. Only by typing some characters, matched games are shown.
For a keyboard that's not a problem, but with a gamepad I can't type.
If you look all the things that you can map, as shown in your snapshot, I would expect one of them should do it. (ui page up/down or ui next/previous group)
I guess it's not implemented.
But could I ask somewhere for such feature? Like in mame testers?
Edited by burninrubber (10/18/13 11:29 PM)
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Re: Mame - Menu - browsing games with gamepad
[Re: burninrubber]
#316117 - 10/18/13 11:33 PM
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> That's what I use to map the gamepad. But no mapping does it.
> It's actually the same with a keyboard.
> You can't navigate outside of the listed games. Only by typing some characters,
> matched games are shown.
> For a keyboard that's not a problem, but with a gamepad I can't type.
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> If you look all the things that you can map, as shown in your snapshot, I would
> expect one of them should do it. (ui page up/down or ui next/previous group)
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> I guess it's not implemented.
> But could I ask somewhere for such feature? Like in mame testers?
The internal UI is not something the dev team is taking feature request at this time on. I can suggest a project which is enhancing the internal game selector to be more like a traditional front-end:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mewui/
Give that a try.
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Re: Mame - Menu - browsing games with gamepad
[Re: burninrubber]
#316336 - 10/24/13 05:28 PM
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Several external frontends allow full game selection with a gamepad. The internal selector isn't intended for actual use, just to stop the old problem of people double-clicking MAME and nothing happening  The devs generally feel the various FE authors are doing a great job and we don't wish to Microsoft them by including everything they do in base MAME.
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The devs generally feel the various FE authors are doing a great job and we don't wish to Microsoft them by including everything they do in base MAME.
