Preventing left & right inputs while navigating the games list

[Bonito77]

Hi, I've installed and set up the latest version of GameEx Arcade Edition on my MAME cabinet. It works great and looks really slick! Just wondering if it's possible to fine-tune a couple of things:

1) When navigating the games list, I find that it's easy to accidentally press left and right on the joystick and have the selected game jump to something I had not intended. Is there a way to allow only up and down inputs (no left/right) while navigating the games list, but to allow up, down, left, and right inputs in the "Search Games" menu?  I saw something about a setting called "Cab Control Friendly" that looks like it might address this to some degree, but when I run the setupwizard for GameEx Arcade edition, I can't see the option listed under the Input section.

2) In the Search Games menu, is it possible to simply type the letters into the text field via a keyboard, rather than being limited to only highlighting letters on the on-screen keyboard and entering them very slowly with the joystick? I've not found a setting to enable this yet, but perhaps I've missed something?

Thanks a lot!

[Draco1962]

3 hours ago, Bonito77 said:

1) When navigating the games list, I find that it's easy to accidentally press left and right on the joystick and have the selected game jump to something I had not intended. Is there a way to allow only up and down inputs (no left/right) while navigating the games list, but to allow up, down, left, and right inputs in the "Search Games" menu?  I saw something about a setting called "Cab Control Friendly" that looks like it might address this to some degree, but when I run the setupwizard for GameEx Arcade edition, I can't see the option listed under the Input section.

That feature is not enabled as part of GameEx Arcade Edition via the Setup Wizard, only within GameEx (GameEx Setup Wizard vs. GameEx Arcade Edition):

@Tom Speirs would need to address why this is removed it from AE Setup Wizard. The option for it still appears within the gameex.ini file. It is possible that the feature is still active and you could try changing the value in CabControlFriendly=False to CabControlFriendly=True in a text editor (Notepad or Notepad++), save the file, then launch AE to see if this works for you. Let us know if enabling it in the gameex.ini works! If it doesn't, see the response below for submitting a Feature Request!

3 hours ago, Bonito77 said:

2) In the Search Games menu, is it possible to simply type the letters into the text field via a keyboard, rather than being limited to only highlighting letters on the on-screen keyboard and entering them very slowly with the joystick? I've not found a setting to enable this yet, but perhaps I've missed something?

I seldom use the Search feature for this reason. I will either go into the emulator of choice or select All Games from the main menu and type (not too fast or slow, but just right) the first few letters of the name. I am not sure if this feature will allow code change or not so probably best to submit a Feature Request here:

 

[Bonito77]

Hey, thanks for the tips and pointers. I attempted changing the gameexe.ini file setting CabControlFriendly from false to true, but it didn't have any effect. I'll put in a feature request. Cheers!

[Draco1962]

Please download and install the latest GameEx Arcade Edition v.18.64 - the Cab Friendly feature has been implemented within:

Let us know if this resolves the issue for you!

[Draco1962]

I tested this with my X-Arcade Tankstick prior to and after upgrading it with their Trimode PCB with the same results - it does not disable the keyboard input.

I attempted it with the Trimode PCB in the Xinput and Dinput setting with negative results. This could be a problem with the new PCB so will be troubleshooting further with X-Arcade.

I did test it with my XBox One controller (Xinput) and it did work.