Changing ESC keys with slikstik

[darkdraco]

Last i remembered it wasnt possible to change how to exit a game. After having friends over to play my cab, people tend to hit the coin and start buttons too fast causing the games to exit. Possible to add a way to change how to exit games?

[Brian Hoffman]

Last i remembered it wasnt possible to change how to exit a game. After having friends over to play my cab, people tend to hit the coin and start buttons too fast causing the games to exit. Possible to add a way to change how to exit games?

Coin 5 and 1 p1 start on my IPAC when press together call a MACRO for ESC.

Whit I did was go into MAME INPUT SETTINGS (in mame..press TAB) >Other controls>UI CANCEL

Chage that from ESC to a multiple key sequence like both coins and both starts at the same time.

[darkdraco]

makes sence, but anyways to change it for all games like zinc and emus

[bkenobi]

You can do anything you can think of through AHK or AI. You just need to decide what you want and then you can write a script to do it. If you need help, Brian, myself, or someone else here can guide you.

[darkdraco]

I have made a couple autoit scripts to run with gameex like changing my slikstik mouse clicks into keypresses for zinc and mugen and to change joyIDs for some emulators to be able to read controllers. But what you can help me is with how to write a script to disable coin2 and start2 from escaping the game, from there i should be able to finish it.

[Brian Hoffman]

I have made a couple autoit scripts to run with gameex like changing my slikstik mouse clicks into keypresses for zinc and mugen and to change joyIDs for some emulators to be able to read controllers. But what you can help me is with how to write a script to disable coin2 and start2 from escaping the game, from there i should be able to finish it.

go here

http://www.ultimarc.com/ipac3.html

Download the software. reprogram your IPAC not to have the coin + P1 start the ESC macro

[darkdraco]

according to slikstik, the escape is set to to start + pause.

seeing that it didnt work, i remember looking at these forums to figure out how to exit games and saw this:

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?sh...tart=#entry8274

Tom says that all the he made the p2 start+coin the exit. So it seems it needs to be changed in gameex somehow.

[Brian Hoffman]

according to slikstik, the escape is set to to start + pause.

seeing that it didnt work, i remember looking at these forums to figure out how to exit games and saw this:

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?sh...tart=#entry8274

Tom says that all the he made the p2 start+coin the exit. So it seems it needs to be changed in gameex somehow.

ok there are three things going on here.

1. Gameex's map keys feature will wait for ESC to be pressed and it will close the process of the said emulator. Which will bring gameex into focus.

2. By DEFAULT mames exit key is ESC.. Hence this will exit and bring gameex into focus.

3. YOUR ipac has a BUILT IN MACRO for ESC... meaning when you press those keys it actully sends ESC which by DEFAULT will exit mame.

your options...

1) Goto mame configuration (IN MAME) input settings>other controls and remap UI CANCEL from ESC to another key sequence. (NOW THAT ESC DOENT CLOSE MAME YOU CAN PRESS P1 +COIN all day long).

2) Remap your IPAC so that coin +P1 doesnt press ESC.

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As far as the other thread goes maybe ESC was mapped to a diffrent key sequence.

[darkdraco]

thanks for the help. 1 problem im kinda having now is that i deleted the select button to change it to something else but now i cant set it to anything because i cant select lol.... how do i chsng it back

EDIT: changed my default.cfg file and works fine now.

[bkenobi]

HEHE, I've done that too. I wanted 'Enter' to be the select key, but in Brian's patched version of MAME 119 it was TAB. I changed it to NONE so that I could start from scratch and poof...no select key

Actually, that wasn't the first time