Retro808 Posted October 28, 2019 Posted October 28, 2019 14 minutes ago, midd said: I checked. It's P in Mame as well. For your controls I asked earlier but you may have missed it, are you using a keyboard or a game controller? Quote
midd Posted October 28, 2019 Posted October 28, 2019 For Mame it's my tankstick. For the retroarch games, my xbox 360 controller. Quote
Retro808 Posted October 28, 2019 Posted October 28, 2019 6 minutes ago, midd said: For Mame it's my tankstick. For the retroarch games, my xbox 360 controller. That might explain the Launchbox issue. I use the same devices. For the tankstick I assume you are using standard keyboard inputs? If so, in Launchbox, the Tankstick will not work as you can only set 1 keyboard input for pause. So if in Launchbox it is set to "P" and not a key your tankstick can trigger Mame will not Pause to the Launchbox Pause Menu. It will only pause directly in Mame. In BigBox it should work because you can set a combo and it will send "P" to Mame. What do you use to initiate Pause on the Tankstick. Quote
midd Posted October 28, 2019 Posted October 28, 2019 For testing purposes, I'm using the keyboard and pressing P. I don't press the tankstick nor do I have any buttons assigned as of yet. I literally decided yesterday to pay around with the Pause screen. Quote
Retro808 Posted October 28, 2019 Posted October 28, 2019 4 minutes ago, midd said: For testing purposes, I'm using the keyboard and pressing P. I don't press the tankstick nor do I have any buttons assigned as of yet. I literally decided yesterday to pay around with the Pause screen. And pressing P while in Mame does not send you to the Launchbox Pause it only pauses mame directly? Is this in LaunchBox or BigBox or both it does not work? Quote
midd Posted October 28, 2019 Posted October 28, 2019 No the game is only paused in both when I push P Quote
Retro808 Posted October 28, 2019 Posted October 28, 2019 Can you share some pics. In Launchbox: >Tools>Options and share a pic of the Game Pause settings. In BigBox. Go to the Settings>Options>Keyboard Mappings: Scroll to bottom and share pic of what you have set for Pause. Then go to Keyboard Automation and share a pic of those settings. Quote
midd Posted October 28, 2019 Posted October 28, 2019 (edited) ok so I never had Pause set up in Big box. Assigned it P in keyboard mappings and it worked. Launchbox still no luck. Edited October 28, 2019 by midd added 2nd pic Quote
neil9000 Posted October 28, 2019 Posted October 28, 2019 3 minutes ago, midd said: ok so I never had Pause set up in Big box. Assigned it P in keyboard mappings and it worked. Launchbox still no luck. Do you have anything else set to P in the mappings section? EDIT: Nevermind thats Controller only there. Quote
Retro808 Posted October 28, 2019 Posted October 28, 2019 3 hours ago, midd said: ok so I never had Pause set up in Big box. Assigned it P in keyboard mappings and it worked. Launchbox still no luck. Can you go into the Game Pause option in Launchbox, hit clear and then click in the box with P and set it to a button on your Tank stick and then launch a mame game from Launchbox and test using the button you set? I just tested setting it to the right bumper button (Shows as D4) and for me Pause Menu still works. I just want to see if changing it from P to something on your Tankstick will work. If it does not I am at a loss. Quote
midd Posted October 29, 2019 Posted October 29, 2019 ok that worked. Took a second to switch and the game kept playing after selecting it. Quote
Retro808 Posted October 29, 2019 Posted October 29, 2019 42 minutes ago, midd said: ok that worked. Took a second to switch and the game kept playing after selecting it. Well it is a step forward. Odd that in Launchbox when set to "P" and using the keyboard Mame will not go to the Launchbox Pause Menu. Try changing back to "P" and testing the p key on your keyboard again. Quote
Retro808 Posted October 29, 2019 Posted October 29, 2019 24 minutes ago, midd said: P worked! crazy.... We did see some earlier issues with bindings. Once some users cleared them and then rebound the controls it worked again. So likely a similar scenario. Quote
ItchyRobot Posted November 25, 2019 Posted November 25, 2019 Are there any other cases, besides my own, of BigBox losing focus when bringing up the BigBox pause screen in MAME (198)? Sometimes it comes up fine, only to lose focus when choosing EXIT. It will instead just go back to the game or to a black screen... when in black screen I can alt+tab and see MAME is still running. This makes me thing BigBox tried, but failed to close MAME when I selected the EXIT option. And then sometimes the BigBox Pause screen wont come up at all when in MAME. I have it set to P in MAME and BigBox. And got rid of P for Play for the other keyboard default function. Quote
Retro808 Posted November 25, 2019 Posted November 25, 2019 2 hours ago, ItchyRobot said: Are there any other cases, besides my own, of BigBox losing focus when bringing up the BigBox pause screen in MAME (198)? Sometimes it comes up fine, only to lose focus when choosing EXIT. It will instead just go back to the game or to a black screen... when in black screen I can alt+tab and see MAME is still running. This makes me thing BigBox tried, but failed to close MAME when I selected the EXIT option. And then sometimes the BigBox Pause screen wont come up at all when in MAME. I have it set to P in MAME and BigBox. And got rid of P for Play for the other keyboard default function. We have seen some issues like this. Typically Mame works well though. I personally have not had any issues in quite a bit with Mame since the pause feature was added. Are you using Mame or one of the offshoots like MameUI or Arcade64? Also are you using multiple monitors? Quote
ItchyRobot Posted November 25, 2019 Posted November 25, 2019 58 minutes ago, Retro808 said: We have seen some issues like this. Typically Mame works well though. I personally have not had any issues in quite a bit with Mame since the pause feature was added. Are you using Mame or one of the offshoots like MameUI or Arcade64? Also are you using multiple monitors? I'm using the official MAME exe (v198) It's annoying, because it has worked randomly from time to time. I got sick of it messing up, so had to turned off, which also turns it off for all my other emulators too =( Quote
neil9000 Posted November 25, 2019 Posted November 25, 2019 2 minutes ago, ItchyRobot said: I'm using the official MAME exe (v198) It's annoying, because it has worked randomly from time to time. I got sick of it messing up, so had to turned off, which also turns it off for all my other emulators too =( You can turn it off per emulator via Tools/Manage Emulators/Name of Emulator/Pause screen tab. 1 Quote
ItchyRobot Posted November 25, 2019 Posted November 25, 2019 27 minutes ago, neil9000 said: You can turn it off per emulator via Tools/Manage Emulators/Name of Emulator/Pause screen tab. Oh, thats good to know Quote
vaderag Posted March 11, 2020 Posted March 11, 2020 I'm having exactly the same issue as above. P pauses in Mame, as usual. I only have keyboard control (via Ipac). I have all the settings (force / dinput etc) as above, but pressing pause just pauses Mame via launchbox Quote
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