hoodlum54

@ckp thank you so, so much! That's exactly what I needed! I changed the ini file to use "dinput" and then also used the sleep function just to see if that'd help too. At first glance it seems to be working! I'll update again. Thanks so much to everyone!

Yeah I had it working by just configuring winipac to send a macro (5,5,1) for player 1 with 5 being coin for player 1, 1 being start for player 1. It worked great for MAME, but it was messing with any other games that needed to use that button (I have a save and a load button on the cabinet and was using player start buttons as numbers for save states. So I'd hit "save" and then hit 1 if the emulator doesn't support quick save - like Mame for instance.) And I didn't like the idea of sending excess keystrokes for no reason. If I can't figure out the script I'll probably just go back to macros with winipac and make sure that the extra strokes aren't set to numbers then and are not used in the emulator. I just thought it'd be easier with AHK.

Well I'm trying to make my player 1-4 start buttons first add 2 coins then hit start. This would allow all 7 non start buttons for players 1&2 and all 4 non start buttons for players 3&4 be mapped properly. So I thought the easiest way to do it would be AHK where it would send coins then start, but does it not work with MAME? All the other platforms it's working fine with. Thanks so much for the quick response. I'll try disabling the script and then changing MAME to do 2 coins per press and changing it so the button is also mapped to start. That's the best method then?

So MAME AHK for me still isn't working. I have the following script in the AHK script box in launchbox, and when I press the numbers nothing happens. Its like it blocks the input and doesn't send anything in return. Very Strange. Any help would be amazing as it's something I've been struggling with for at least 2 weeks. 1:: Send 5 return 2:: Send 6 Send 2 return 3:: Send 7 Send 3 return 4:: Send 8 Send 4 return None of these work at all.

So I'm not sure why it worked, but I searched the launchbox folder for any exe and changed it (launchbox), big box, scummm (or whatever) all to run as administrator and that sorted it out for now it seems. Very weird. Thanks for the reply.

Any update on this? I'm running 6.12 but none of my "send" functions are working. Is this still broken or did the syntax change or something rendering my old codes obsolete? Thanks!