GameEx with Mame32 Keyboard Issues

[TigerKnee]

Hi

I have the full registered GameEx and it's great. I also have the PC hooked up to an arcade monitor using ArcadeVGA and JPAC.

A couple of issues. When a game starts for the first time, buttons will start pressing by itself. Like for instance Street Fighter II. When you push start and you're at the character selection screen, your character will automatically be selected. Then when the game starts, the character will start kicking by itself. Then the game slows down. All of a sudden, everything will be back to normal. Everything runs fine when Mame32 is run by itself without GameEx. Any ideas?

Also, is there anyway to map Mame32's controls (such as Esc to get out of a game) onto my arcade controllers?

Thanks in advanced!

P.S. I have read through the FAQs and could not find anything

[bkenobi]

Before you get too far into it, check to make sure the buttons themselves aren't sticking. I have leaf switches on my new cab and one of the buttons likes to stick in the up position. Perhaps you have the opposite problem?

[emphatic]

What are the key mappings for your controls? Do you by any chance have "o" or "k" for you firebuttons? Because if that's the case, when GameEx is set to "skip disclaimer", it will send okokokokokokokokokokokoko to MAME in order to skip all of the "press ok" messages. If not, I don't know.

Emph

[TigerKnee]

Thanks for the replies.

The buttons are not sticking because everything is working fine when I run Mame32 on it's own.

Keymappings actually DO say "OKOKOKOK" when I try mapping some keys....

Guess I'll turn it off and see what it does.

[TigerKnee]

YES!!!

That did it. Thanks a bunch!

Last question.

Can I use my joysticks to exit games somehow? Right now, I have to use the keyboard to press the "Esc" key to get out of games. That's the only time I use the keyboard. I would like to be able to make this cabinet keyboard-free if I can.

[bkenobi]

Yeah, I don't know what the buttons are by default (I think they can be changed), but you can exit by holding down a combination of gamepad keys for a couple seconds. I want to say it's a direction + buttons 4, 5, and 6. It should be in the documentation and I know it's been covered in the forum.