MAME keyboard controls

[meintime]

Hi,

I think I may have improperly setup my general controls in MAME. When I launch a MAME game I can no longer bring up the controls menu (by pressing tab on keyboard). For a while I could do it by pressing the up arrow… anyway I think I may have set my controls up such that I disabled access to the controls menu, so now I can’t setup my controller (logitech 310) in any of my games except the one (1941) that’s it’s already working for.

Is there a way to delete or reset the controls?

So far I haven’t been digging into any text files to add lines of code etc., just working with the onscreen menus within emulation station and for setting up retropie.

Pi 2
Retropie 3.0 beta from image

thanks!
Matt

[Floob]

Which folder are your mame roms in? (and do you know which emulator you are running?)

Folders are:
mame-advmame
mame-mame4all
fba
neogeo

If you’re using the standard mame4all check this directory for a default cfg file
/opt/retropie/configs/mame-mame4all/cfg/

[meintime]

Hi,

Roms are in

mame-mame4all

When I remote access the Pi from my Mac I get option to view three different folders:
Bios
Config
Roms

In the same-mame4all Config folder I see
emulators.cfg
mame.cfg
retroarch.cfg

and a folder labeled “cfg” inside of which are “.cfg” files for each of the games I have in the corresponding Roms folder.

I can open these files in Textedit on the mac, but the only one that seems sensible so far is the mame.cfg file, see screenshot attached.

thanks, Matt

[meintime]

Hi,

Sorry, meant to add

So is this where I would “reset” my keyboard config?

thanks,
Matt

[Floob]

Where you say this:
“and a folder labeled “cfg” inside of which are “.cfg” files for each of the games I have in the corresponding Roms folder.”

look for a default.cfg and delete it.

You can SSH in if your finder session doesnt let you:
https://www.siteground.com/kb/how_to_log_in_to_an_account_via_ssh_in_mac_os/

[meintime]

Floob,

That file was there, I deleted it and now all is well. I can access the controls in each game and get my logitech controller set up.

Many thanks,

Matt

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