X-Arcade / Tankstick and Keyboard Control of BigBox

[Triclinic]

I'm sorry if it's obvious...but I can't seem to find where to download the beta...

[spycat]

Hi Triclinic Start LaunchBox itself (not BigBox). Select Tools, Options, Updates and tick the Update to Beta box. Click OK and close LaunchBox. Now start either LaunchBox or BigBox and the New beta available box should appear.

[Triclinic]

Great! I was looking all over the forum and website...should have crossed my mind to check inside the application. Thanks.

[Jmprph123]

On 9/7/2015 at 7:19 PM, Jason Carr said:

Hi @Triclinic, as of right now it's not possible to customize the keyboard keys. However, I am realizing just now how important that probably is, as I'm guessing you need it for Tankstick compatibility, correct?

Where can I find this beta file

 

[klillas]

Did remapping of keyboard shortcuts ever make it into the release?

[klillas]

Yep, sorry. Found it myself under the BigBox options.

Thanks!

[Egga]

I know this is an old thread, but I am a brand new user and for the life of me I can't figure out how to use keyboard buttons to exit the open window/executable file.  I too have an arcade tankstick and was hoping to be able to use a combination of two buttons, for instance 1 & 2 to exit the emulator.  Is there a way to do this without a controller?  The controller automation only seems to recognize buttons on the controller.  Hoping somebody figured this out and could help me out.  Thanks

[Retro808]

@Egga

I use this AHK script in the autohotkey tab of the emulators I need it in and I can close out of the emulator holding P4 and P2 buttons for more than 2 seconds. I found it in an old post and changed P1 to P4 as all my emulators are set to exit using that combo. 

~4 & 2::

Duration=0

Loop

{	Duration ++

	If !GetKeyState("4","P") || !GetKeyState("2","P")

		Break

	If Duration > 2

	{	

        Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}}

		break

	}

	Sleep, 1000

}

return

Edited July 1, 2017 by Retro808

[Lordmonkus]

@Retro808 would mind please posting this script over in this thread I just made to collect useful scripts like this ?

And if you could provide a short description of which buttons exactly on the X-Arcade Tankstick this uses that would be awesome too.

[Retro808]

14 minutes ago, lordmonkus said:

@Retro808 would mind please posting this script over in this thread I just made to collect useful scripts like this ?

And if you could provide a short description of which buttons exactly on the X-Arcade Tankstick this uses that would be awesome too.

Posted in the link you provided. 

[Lordmonkus]

Thanks.

[Egga]

Thank-you so much for this!!!  It worked perfectly, I just copy and pasted it into the Autohotkey tab for each of the emulators in Launchbox and it immediately worked.  I ended up changing it to 1 & 2, so that I can just press the player 1 and 2 buttons down together for 2 seconds on the Arcade Tankstick and it works perfectly to exit back to Big Box mode.  Now I can actually start playing some games instead of trying to figure out how to make things work

Really appreciate how quickly you provided the solution, hopefully if anyone else is having similar issues they will find this thread.

 

[Lordmonkus]

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[Krakatoa]

Sorry to bump an old post. How would that script work with the new Tankstick that uses mouse button 3 to exit games?

 

Red button is mapped - Per Arcade-x - This new version has a special added function on the top right corner of your Tankstick: red LED button mapped to Mouse M3 (SEE IMAGE) which can be configured as EXIT in MAME or your emulator.

Edited August 17, 2020 by Krakatoa