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PICADE controls not working in advmame
ok i eventually figured it out, as long as I don't have a keyboard connected the picade controller works in advancemenu in pimame, if i run advancemenu from the desktop then having the keyboard connected isn't a problem - - no great shakes…

Comment by simontelescopium April 2014 permalink
PICADE controls not working in advmame
Ok, I don't know why, but all of a sudden the controls have started working - I haven't changed anything as far as I am aware but now they work - very weird!

Comment by simontelescopium April 2014 permalink
PICADE controls not working in advmame
ah I think i might be getting somewhere... in the advmenu log there is an entry for event0 (see previous comment) that says keyb:event: not a keyboard on device /dev/input/event0 I dont get this error if i run from desktop. Any ideas?

Comment by simontelescopium March 2014 permalink
PICADE controls not working in advmame
I have been investigating this a little more by running 'advmenu -log' from the command line if I 'exit to command line'. > advmenu -log I have a log entry that reads.. keyb:event: keyb_event_init(id:-1, disable_special:0) e…

Comment by simontelescopium March 2014 permalink
PICADE controls not working in advmame
If it helps here are the hardwired key assignments with PICADE START '1' K49 COIN '5' K53 RETURN 'return' K13 ESC 'escape' K27 UP 'up arrow' K273 down 'down arrow' K274 left 'left a…

Comment by simontelescopium March 2014 permalink
PICADE controls not working in advmame
The PICADE is a USB Human Interface Device it 'looks' like a keyboard and sends the same commands as a keyboard but the 'keys' are mapped in the hardware to specific key codes. so the joystick emulates pressing the arrow keys, et…

Comment by simontelescopium March 2014 permalink

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