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Rapid Fire / Autofire / Turbo in Emulators That Don't Natively Support It?
#334764 - 11/30/14 06:32 PM
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Are there any programs that can run in the background and intercept SDL or DirectInput gamepad/joystick inputs to produce rapid fire/autofire/turbo input (or whatever you want to call it) in applications that do not natively support it?
This isn't necessarily MAME specific, but I haven't been able to find a solution to what I want.
I know I could use JoyToKey and map gamepad buttons to keyboard inputs and then use something like AutoHotKey to create the rapid fire effect, but that's a fairly complicated solution. I would prefer to avoid simulating keyboard input, but I'm not sure if that is even feasible if the gamepad driver doesn't natively support autofire. I'm guessing you'd have to have some sort of dummy dll to catch inputs, but I'm still hoping that there would be a background program that could handle this.
Any thoughts?
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Re: Rapid Fire / Autofire / Turbo in Emulators That Don't Natively Support It?
[Re: Pr3tty F1y]
#334790 - 12/01/14 02:34 PM
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There are USB adapters to connect Genesis and SNES controllers to the PC. Get one of them and a controller that supports the functions you want, and you are golden. I have several. I am more a classic gamer (2600, Colecovision etc...) but I do like a few games from the 16-bit era.
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Re: Rapid Fire / Autofire / Turbo in Emulators That Don't Natively Support It?
[Re: sirscotty]
#334806 - 12/02/14 04:09 AM
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> There are USB adapters to connect Genesis and SNES controllers to the PC. Get one of
> them and a controller that supports the functions you want, and you are golden. I
> have several. I am more a classic gamer (2600, Colecovision etc...) but I do like a
> few games from the 16-bit era.
That's actually what got me thinking about this. For my SNES, I had an adapter that was placed between your gamepad and the system's controller port called a Power Plug (by Tyco):
I was hoping that there would be a software solution that could act as a software version of the Power Plug, even if it only was limited to autofire (however, if it could record macros and map them to keys too, that would be awesome). I'm guessing the software solution I am looking for doesn't exist, but I was holding out hope.
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Re: Rapid Fire / Autofire / Turbo in Emulators That Don't Natively Support It?
[Re: Pr3tty F1y]
#334809 - 12/02/14 05:45 AM
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> I know I could use JoyToKey and map gamepad buttons to keyboard inputs and then use
> something like AutoHotKey to create the rapid fire effect, but that's a fairly
> complicated solution.
JoyToKey can do autofire, scroll down to "Button Assignment Window":
http://joytokey.net/en/overview
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Re: Rapid Fire / Autofire / Turbo in Emulators That Don't Natively Support It?
[Re: Pr3tty F1y]
#334811 - 12/02/14 06:26 AM
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Re: Rapid Fire / Autofire / Turbo in Emulators That Don't Natively Support It?
[Re: krick]
#334814 - 12/02/14 02:42 PM
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