LynnOnTheWeb

@JoeViking245 Thanks for your help on this. All is working like I want it to and I'm able to map all of the buttons. @cenutrio351 I didn't make it myself. I bought a machine from Game Room Solutions but it's custom artwork, and am putting my own computer in it.

No, this scenario: I'm in Bigbox playing a game. I don't want to play that game anymore, I want to back out and choose another game. I think you're right, it's escape on the keyboard. I'll try the hold button thing. I can encode a two button push, I didn't know about the hold part. When you say yours is in keyboard mode, does that mean you always have a keyboard nearby to do those things? I'm doing them with the keyboard now but the goal is to tuck it away.

I think you've got me on the right path. I was going directly into Mame and hitting tab, not hitting tab in Launchbox. I'm pretty sure both my keyboard and controllers are recognized (Twin USB Gamepad). My coin and select buttons were mapped to buttons 4 and 5, not joystick 1 button 9 and joystick 1 button 10. I mapped them correctly and was able to play the game I pulled up. I then went in and mapped them under input (general) and they seem to be working on the other games I've pulled up too. Now I'm looking for what I would consider the back button. I'm playing a game, I want to back out and look at all the games (previous screen). I see a "UI Back", but when I map it to buttons, it doesn't seem to work. Only since I'm referring to button numbers, adding this photo for context.

I have a feeling that I'm missing something incredibly obvious here. When I get to this screen, I can't figure out how to start a game and play. I hit the coin button, the start button, the buttons to the right of the joystick, etc. No luck. Is it a mapping issue or a "this user is just clueless issue"? And no matter what the answer, I'm hoping someone can help me find my solution. Background: Launchbox with Bigbox Mame 0.273 installed via Launchbox when I imported ROMs I also have Mame 0.174 installed for a ROM that didn't work on 0.273 and Dolphin installed Windows 11 I setup the machine this is all on before I had my control panel, then hooked it up to the control panel. All of the buttons and joysticks are recognized. I've tried to add/change mappings in Mame but always get a "cant save mame.ini file" message. I've looked at the permissions and the file is not read only. Thanks for any help you can offer.