LB with X Arcade and MAME: couple of questions

[thejamestownoasis]

Hello- I have had some help here in the past so I figured I'd try again. Poor, novice, still noob, here.

 I started MAME and got the XArcade stick with trackball, 95% for Golden Tee. I finally was able to get it working...finally. But now a few other issues, sorry if these end up being mostly mame questions...

1. How do I "reset" the controls in mame/Arcade stick? I'm concerned that I have somehow altered them and now in games, a character will "jump" and "fire/slash/etc" in one button push (say Arthur jumping and throwing simultaneously in Ghosts n Goblins). I am confused by how to set this up because do I now need to know how the xarcade buttons are mapped in order to assign the keys??? I am probably over-complicating this, but I just cannot get my mind straight as to how to accomplish this easily. I remember the default config seemed to work fine with most everything. 

 

Exp: I know when I bring up the button mapping screen I can "map" a given command to a given button on the XArcade, but how do I know what that button DOES? I need to know where the "typical" mame buttons are and then map them onto the XArcade controller, right? Hence my desire to just restart everything. Sigh, sorry. 

 

2. High scores. Should not these be saving automatically at this point in MAME? Most machines just seem to reset with every start up. I would especially like to see this with GT...and THAT is very odd. IT will (seemingly) save some rounds, but they are clustered around hundreds of other "drone scores" of others that should be LONG erased by now with better scores. Does that explanation make sense? 

 

3.  Some games just will not work: NFL Blitz for example. I know I had to chase down the CHD file for GT- is that the case with some/many of these new(er) games, too? 

 

Thank you so much for the help, I really wish I could just PAY someone to give me a tutorial on this stuff- most of the youtube videos just don't do it for me for some reason, espeically with the XArcade involved. 

 

James

 

Edited April 8, 2020 by thejamestownoasis
correct

[Headrush69]

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1. How do I "reset" the controls in mame/Arcade stick? I'm concerned that I have somehow altered them and now in games, a character will "jump" and "fire/slash/etc" in one button push (say Arthur jumping and throwing simultaneously in Ghosts n Goblins). I am confused by how to set this up because do I now need to know how the xarcade buttons are mapped in order to assign the keys??? I am probably over-complicating this, but I just cannot get my mind straight as to how to accomplish this easily. I remember the default config seemed to work fine with most everything. 

Just delete the gamename.cfg file in the  MAME -> cfg folder.

MAME is very flexible and can assign multiple keys to one action and also one key to several actions. (Sounds like you did that above) You can also go in that game and delete any entry by pushing ESC when assigning a key.

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 Exp: I know when I bring up the button mapping screen I can "map" a given command to a given button on the XArcade, but how do I know what that button DOES? I need to know where the "typical" mame buttons are and then map them onto the XArcade controller, right? Hence my desire to just restart everything. Sigh, sorry. 

Unfortunately it's hit and miss for getting the keys right. Every game is different. You can always look at the Retroarch mame2003_plus core which is adding labels into MAME like you hoped for.

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2. High scores. Should not these be saving automatically at this point in MAME? Most machines just seem to reset with every start up. I would especially like to see this with GT...and THAT is very odd. IT will (seemingly) save some rounds, but they are clustered around hundreds of other "drone scores" of others that should be LONG erased by now with better scores. Does that explanation make sense? 

Not all games support saving hi scores. Do you have the hiscore plugin enabled? (Check in MAME -> plugin.ini)

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3.  Some games just will not work: NFL Blitz for example. I know I had to chase down the CHD file for GT- is that the case with some/many of these new(er) games, too? 

Yes that game needs a CHD.

Edited April 8, 2020 by Headrush69