F300elite controller and Mame

[darrenmarchand]

Hi,

im having this weird issue. I have the Mayflash F300 elite controller. When I launch Asteroids Deluxe in Launchbox (Mame emu), the joystick works, fire and thrust buttons work, but for the life of me, I can’t get the “shields” to work with any button! I tried remapping buttons, but it seems to keep fire and thrust as the same buttons regardless of where I map them, and it still refuses to give me “shields”. I thought it was easy to just assign buttons where I wanted them?

Any help please?

[JoeViking245]

14 hours ago, darrenmarchand said:

I thought it was easy to just assign buttons where I wanted them?

It is.  

I'm not familiar with the F300elite, but (though sounds like you may have) you should be able to: while the game is loaded (waiting to 'insert coins' or during game play, doesn't matter) press Tab on your keyboard and select "Input (This Machine)". Then select "P1 Button 5" and map it to the button you want to use for shield. Then Esc. Esc.

It should work, but if that doesn't work, it'd be a Mayflash thing.  I'm not sure what their customer support is like.

[neil9000]

Yeah, as @JoeViking245 said you need to set your controls in the TAB menu/This Machine. I use a Mayflash F500 and it works just fine. Button 1 and 2 are left and right, then the other 3 i just set to the 3 buttons on the top row of the stick, it works just fine, like this.

[darrenmarchand]

Thanks guys. This solves my problem. I must have been in the wrong section when I was programming. I set the joystick for left and right but that was the only change I made from yours.

Do either of you happen to know if you can set a different controller to work on certain games? Like a Gamesir for one game and the Mayflash for another?