MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Sheriff input situation

> For the game "Sheriff", I mapped the movement/walking to the left joystick. I then
> mapped the aiming of the gun to the right joystick. Since I had no more free hands to
> press the fire button, I wanted to map the fire button to all 4 directions of the
> right joystick to correspond with the same mapping of the aiming of the gun. So this
> way, when I press the right joystick upwards, the gun will aim upwards and fire at
> the same time.
>
> Do you understand what I mean? Is it possible to make this mapping situation work
> like that?
>
> Well, it allowed me to map it this way. But during gameplay, when I press the right
> joystick upwards/downwards/right/left the gun aimed that way but it did not fire.

in theory, it should be possible

http://mamedev.org/devwiki/index.php/FAQ:Controls#How_do_I_configure_the_keys.3F

by repeating the instructions for mapping a single control to multiple key (check the FAQ for the "OR" instructions) 4 times