Joypad AND keyboards

[Animal]

I think this will be a simple thing to do but I've just confused myself with it all....

I have an arcade cabinet with an iPac Ultimate, Aimtrak and USB xbox controller.

How do I make some platforms / games recognise and use the keyboard and pad at the same time?

Example.  If I'm playing SuperMario in an NES emulator, I like to use the cabinet joystick and buttons (keyboard through the ipac) BUT if I'm playing mario cart or another game I prefer to use the xbox pad and not touch the cabinet buttons.  I obviously don't want to go through every game separately setting up the controls but no issues if doing it by platform.

I'm not sure if using joy2key would helop the situation as like I say - I've just confused myself with it all and about to scream

 

 

 

 

 

[neil9000]

22 minutes ago, Animal said:

How do I make some platforms / games recognise and use the keyboard and pad at the same time?

Most of the time you cant, its keyboard or controller, you cant use both at the same time as emulators require you to specify your controls and do not allow more than one button/key per input.

[Animal]

9 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

Most of the time you cant, its keyboard or controller, you cant use both at the same time as emulators require you to specify your controls and do not allow more than one button/key per input.

DOH.  gutted - thanks!  I won't be using them both at the same time as such but understood.  

 

I mainly use the cabinet controls so if I set it up mainly for the cabinet (IPac/keyboard) and just plug in the USB for specific games will that mess things up ?

[Animal]

4 hours ago, neil9000 said:

Most of the time you cant, its keyboard or controller, you cant use both at the same time as emulators require you to specify your controls and do not allow more than one button/key per input.

I've been thinking more on this

 

Could I setup the cabinet joystick and buttons which are all mapped anyway to specific keys with the ipac and then use JoyToKey so that when I use the pad it correlates to the same key press?

i.e.

using cabinet. - left on joystick is arrow left which moves mario to the left

Using joytokey - left on dpad is left arrow on keyboard which moves mario to the left

 

Or am I dreaming and miles off and making this to simplistic !

 

[ItchyRobot]

Using MAME for arcade games and RetroArch for NES and a few other consoles, I have it set up to use either my Arcade Stick/buttons (seen as keyboard by PC) or Xbox controllers - for all the games in each Platform (not a per game setup, even though that is possible). I am pretty sure it was an easy setup, nothing special. You just have to map all the actions to both controllers.
 Maybe I understood the question wrong?

Edited July 22, 2020 by ItchyRobot

[Headrush69]

1 hour ago, ItchyRobot said:

Using MAME for arcade games and RetroArch for NES and a few other consoles, I have it set up to use either my Arcade Stick/buttons (seen as keyboard by PC) or Xbox controllers - for all the games in each Platform (not a per game setup, even though that is possible). I am pretty sure it was an easy setup, nothing special. You just have to map all the actions to both controllers.
 Maybe I understood the question wrong?

Ditto for Retroarch cores and MAME. 

The only hard part was if you are setting multiple inputs in MAME, and one of the devices is dynamic (wireless), make sure to set the cfg file for that game to read only after or MAME will erase those mappings if started without the dynamic device attached.