set button 1 as Enter as well as Left Ctrl in Advmame

Ryan

Hi guys,

First up: great resource. Thanks for all the work.

Now my question. I'm so close to keyboard free. I'm primarily going to be using Advmame. I'm using a 4 microswitch joystick and 4 buttons (Fire, Bomb, Credit and Start). I've added LCTRL to controller.yaml so I can enter a rom from the menu with the button mapped to GPIO 23. I've setup Adafruit's retrogame so I can play the game and escape using the vulcan pinch of holding the credit and start buttons (GPIO 18 and GPIO 27). I can then use the joystick to move the focus in advmame from "Continue?" to "Exit". But then I can't select it with the fire button, presumably because the LCTRL mapping is only valid for the Piplay menu. Do I have to add another button just to select?

Once again, great work setting all this up.

Cheers,
Ryan

mholgatem

If you check out the advmame.rc file, there should be on option to either disable the confirmation part or set the UI_confirm (it may be called UI_select) to a different button. I'm away from my computer for the next week, so i can't dig into it more for you, but you can probably get take it from here

Ryan

Much appreciated. I'll be back if I have any problems but yes, I should be able to sort it from here.

Thanks a lot,
Ryan

TheStrayMongrel

I have the same problem Ryan. Havent found time to look further into it but do keep me posted on your progress and what you do as a remedy.

Thanks

Ryan

Sorted. Opened /home/pi/.advance/advmame.rc and added the line:

input_map[ui_select] keyboard[0,lcontrol]

just before the line:

input_map[ui_cancel] keyboard[1,scan0] keyboard[1,scan0] or keyboard[0,1] keyboard[0,2] or keyboard[0,esc] or keyboard[1,scan0]

Probably doesn't matter where the line goes but it seemed the logical place for neatness sake. My player 1 fire button is mapped to left control in retrogame so now left control is mapped to [ui_select] in advance mame.

Cheers,
Ryan

TheStrayMongrel

Thanks very much, will def give that a crack.

TheStrayMongrel

Hmm yeah that wont work for me, get and "unknown input error", or something along those likes. Tried both [0,lcontrol] and [0,lshift] which are my 4 and 1 buttons respectively.

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