[RESOLVED] Mapping SNES Keys

[GoTheBunnies]

Hi guys - I appreciate this is really an SNES question, but I can't find an active forum for the emulator, so hoping I can get it answered here.

I've got MAME set up and my keys mapped - the Esc key exits the game. I obviously want to map the same keys in Snes9x so that my Ipac works properly, but I can't map the Esc key to make it exit the game in Snes (the Esc key in Snes hides/shows the emulator tab).

I was sure that I could set a key in GameEx to work in all emulators - so no matter which emulator I was in I could press Esc and it would exit the game?  Am I right in saying that, and could you walk me through how to do it please?

Thanks

 

[Tom Speirs]

Just a tip but Retroarch is the way to go these days for basic 8/16 bit stuff.

Take a look at that.

[GoTheBunnies]

Retroarch is an emulator that runs SNES games?  I thought it was a frontend like GameEx.  Thanks, I'll take a look

 

Just so I'm clear before I start getting into it, once I've downloaded RetroArch and can run the SNES games on it, am I then pointing GameEx to RetroArch instead of snex9x?

[GoTheBunnies]

I managed to sort out the emulator issue, but the original question remains - does GameEx have the function to map keys so that they are effectively then used in all emulators, or does the mapping have to be done emulator by emulator?

Thanks

[Draco1962]

What mapping is available for GameEx is in the Setup Wizard within the Input Settings section. This is typically global for GameEx with some overlap for emulators.

As it is with most frontends, additional mappings - keeping in mind what is setup in the frontend - is handled within the emulator.  More recent systems work out better for most systems as they have mappings for newer controller standards. RetroArch maps well to the XBox 360 controller as an example.