Changing the "select/enter/go" button

[rabidpuppy]

I'm just finishing building a cabinet, and the Player 1 start button is not really close to the 1-6 buttons. I spend a lot of time navigating around, and reaching up to hit the 1UP button all the time will give me tennis elbow.

So I would like to have the Player 1, Button 2 as the "select/play game" button. As button 1 (with joystick) is used for navigating, and button 3 is the back button, button 2 seems like should naturally rest between them to select/start a game.

1. I'm not sure if button 2 has any existing functions,

2. what is the easiest way to accomplish this.

Cheers!

(I'm open to other suggestions as well. My control panel is a 2 player, 8 button each setup. I use other emulators as well as mame.)

[Lawrence]

The settings to change this are right in the Advanced Configuration program under Input.

[rabidpuppy]

  Lawrence said:

The settings to change this are right in the Advanced Configuration program under Input.

I am in this option and what I am seeing doesn't make any sense. I understand I should be looking at the scancodes.txt file to see what number to assign to what function. What's the difference between the keyboard and joystick section? I'm using an iPac4. What does "Button Number starting a 0" mean? Should that say "starting AT 0 (zero)"?

The scancodes that are in there don't seem to match up to what is currently happening. My 1SW3 button is the back function (or backspace on the keyboard). But the custominput.ini file has in the keyboard section the no. 48 which is "B" and in the joystick section no. 1. I don't know what that means because it also has no.0 for select and the scancodes file starts at 1.

I would like to understand how this works. Failing that I would like to be able to assign select to 1SW2 and not worry about it.

scancodes.txt

custominput.ini.txt

[bkenobi]

If you use the setup wizard, there is actually a tool that will take your keyboar input and figure the out the scan codes automatically. You don't need to use the old method unless you really want to.

[rabidpuppy]

  bkenobi said:

If you use the setup wizard, there is actually a tool that will take your keyboar input and figure the out the scan codes automatically. You don't need to use the old method unless you really want to.

Thanks heaps for that, I didn't know it existed.