11
OPERATION WITH A COMPUTER
On a
PC
or
MAC
, the buttons are assigned to specific keyboard keys. When you press a button
attached to the X-Arcade™ BYO Kit, your computer thinks you are pressing a key on your keyboard.
If you open a word editor like notepad, you will notice that the buttons and joysticks type. See the
X-Arcade™ BYO Kit's default Mode1 key assignments on page 12.
For most games on your computer, you will need to change the button assignment to the actions or
functions you wish them to perform within the game itself. If the game does not have an option to
use the keyboard keys you want, you can simply use the hardware programming on the X-Arcade™
BYO Kit to change the button assignments. See page 12 for more information on programming.
GAME SETUP:
The first time you play a game, you must go to the game’s options menu. Most likely it will be
SETUP,
SETUP CONTROLS, OPTIONS, or CONTROLS
and lead you to the menu for assigning actions in games.
The majority of computer games require that you first start the game, and then press either
ESC
or go
to the main menu, where there will be some sort of icon that represents the
OPTIONS
for the game or
the
CONTROLS
for the game.
Once you find the game’s
OPTIONS
, and subsequently, the game’s
CONTROLS
, you must understand
how to change the game's default keys to the keys on the X-Arcade™ BYO Kit. Make sure the controls
in the game are set to keyboard,
NOT A MOUSE OR JOYSTICK, as the X-Arcade™ BYO Kit is seen
as a keyboard by your PC
.
Look at the diagram for Mode1 of the X-Arcade™ BYO Kit on page 12 to see which buttons are
assigned to which keys. Example,
LEFT CONTROL
key of keyboard is actually the
PLAYER
1
main
action button, so if you want to have that first top left button assigned to a function like
FIRE
or
ACTION
, just highlight the action you wish to perform,
FIRE
(or similar), then in some fashion it will
then ask you to pick the key or button you with to assign it to, then press the button on your arcade
project. You must do this for
PLAYER 1
and
PLAYER 2
(if you are playing a 2 Player game) and set
up all of the actions you wish to use. This only has to be done once, and it will be saved in the game
itself.
10
OPERATION WITH EMULATORS
The first thing you want to do is test the X-Arcade™ BYO Kit on your PC using the X-Arcade™ Test
Utility Program to check that it is being recognized by your computer properly. The layout that MAME
is looking for is the exact same one that is used in the X-Arcade™ Test Utility Program (see layout on
next page). This means that if your controller works in the X-Arcade™ Test Utility Program, then it will
work in MAME and other emulators. If it does not, then check your settings in the emulator, not the
X-Arcade™ BYO Kit. Download the X-Arcade™ Test Utility Program from the "Customer Service" page
of
www.X-Arcade.com
MAME SETUP:
Once you have verified that the X-Arcade™ BYO Kit is working with the PC properly, be sure you are
also using the newest version of the emulator. In MAME32, open Options (at the top), then “Default
Game Options”, select the “Game Controllers” tab; and set your “Default input layout” to X-Arcade™
from the drop-down list. All of your MAME games will work with that configuration. If joystick 1 is the
only thing not working, be sure that your NUM LOCK (NLOCK) key is ON.
MAME OPERATION:
• After you start up a game, use the left pinball flipper button (L-PB) to insert coins, and press the
white start button to play.
• You can also skip the screens which ask you to type “OK” by moving the joystick left then right
(left for “O” and right for “K”).
• You can exit a game by holding the player 2 start button and pressing the right pinball button
simultaneously.
• You can change the controls for any game by simply pushing the “Tab” key while a game is
already running to access the controls menu.
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