MESS Help

[spycat]

I used it before and I've just set it up again to test it using 2 games.
TV Arcade I: Spacewar
TV Arcade V: Speedway + Tag

TV Arcade I works using
F3 then Q for game 1
F3 then E for game 2

TV Arcade V works using
F3 then Q for game 1
F3 then W for game 2

Upper and lower case letter keys both work.
 

[angelobodetti]

Thank you so much! got it working - i was testing baseball. It looks like each game has a unique key combo to get a game running. Do you happen to know where those mappings are listed? Also, any chance you are running it through RocketLauncher?

[spycat]

The studio2 XML file inside the mame\hash folder shows the actual RCA Studio II keypad buttons to use to open each game.

To see the MAME equivalent of these keypad buttons, open the MAME config menu and open the Input (this Machine) menu.
The left column lists the keys of the 2 RCA Studio II keypads, and the right column lists their MAME equivalents.

I've never got around to trying out RL.

 

[angelobodetti]

I got it to work in RocketLauncher.

In emulator I pointed it to the 0.185 MAME application and used the MESS module. 

In rom path I put 3 paths. Path to the rom, path to my MAME roms folder and path to my mess bios folder. 

In theory you could have all of those things in 1 folder. I just didn't. 

You also need to set those same directories within MAME itself. LaunchBox keys you get away with not setting roms folder in MAME itself. But not RL. 

This method worked for Creativision and Funtec also. I'm guessing it works with all MESS cart systems.