Quick Attract Mode Question

[bkenobi]

I'm using a GP-Wiz and 2 Logitech Rumble Pads for input on my system. Since GameEx can't see all the inputs on my GP-Wiz, I have things set up to use a custom keyboard input and XPadder to do the conversion. Everything works fine except for attract mode. When I press a coin button, the game starts the demo mode and looks like things should work fine. When I start playing, things work. However, after the time limit expires (3 minutes on my system), GameEx moves on to the next item in the sequence.

I just tried turning on game pad support and setting all keys to use custom settings (everything is currently set to joystick button 6 since I don't use it in GameEx). But, that doesn't seem to make it better. I can enter a coin, but when I hit P1B1, it exits to the FE.

I'm just wondering what GameEx is looking for so I can see if there's a way to configure my system to make that work. It seems like a good overall/ideal solution would be to update the FE so that GameEx can see more buttons (there's a new GP-Wiz 40 that has 40 inputs, so 16 is obviously somewhat less). However, I know that will take some effort (maybe a lot of effort depending on how things were originally coded), so I just was curious if there was something I could do in the interim. If not, then I will just accept that I can't play games directly from attract mode. I'm just trying to close this issue one way or another.

Thanks!