MAME Controls Info Images?

[DivinityCycle]

As I've been adding my MAME ROMs into my LaunchBox collection, I've noticed that EmuMovies has given me "Controller Info" images, most of which show a standard button panel with the various default button mappings labeled. I've attached one of those and also a lightgun example image as well. The main reason why I'm posting is: what do people actually do with these kinds of things? I know you can display overalys in MAME when in-game, but I'm not sure if there's really any easy way to display a particular game's controls. Ideally I'd like to be able to flash something up on screen for X number of seconds when that game is started, so you can easily tell what the controls are, or have a button or hotkey you can press to display the controls in a nice manner.

Does anybody on here use these or other images / text to help the end-user with MAME controls?

[levi]

That sure looks like a generic screenshot from CPWizard: http://headsoft.com.au/index.php?category=cpwizard

It can do most of what you mentioned. You design a control panel with your button layout, and it renders the button actions based on what MAME rom is playing. It can display for a set time on game startup, or as a pause action midgame.

[DivinityCycle]

That's exactly what I was looking for! I had started working on a custom bezel / controller help setup, and was about where to the point of testing the stuff I've made, so this is great! Many thanks.

[huffyX0]

Is there an updated version of this? I'd like to do the same, but I think the provided link is dead.

 

thanks.

On 11/5/2016 at 2:47 AM, levi said:

That sure looks like a generic screenshot from CPWizard: http://headsoft.com.au/index.php?category=cpwizard

It can do most of what you mentioned. You design a control panel with your button layout, and it renders the button actions based on what MAME rom is playing. It can display for a set time on game startup, or as a pause action midgame.