Rapid Fire works in notepad but not in mame games (e.g. 1942)

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rob_hynes
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Rapid Fire works in notepad but not in mame games (e.g. 1942)

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Hi,

Rapid-Fire works in notepad but not in mame games (e.g. 1942). Is there something I need to do to get it to work ?

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Rob

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Re: Rapid Fire works in notepad but not in mame games (e.g. 1942)

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MAME uses an input method that is not compatable with Xpadder without patching MAME. Jonathan has made patched versions of popular versions.

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Re: Rapid Fire works in notepad but not in mame games (e.g. 1942)

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Hi - thank you for the reply. As mame was working with xpadder (everything except rapid-fire) I assumed I was using an older version of mame which was compatible. I don't understand how editing "#define FORCE_DIRECTINPUT 0" and setting the value to 1 would make rapid fire work but I'll sure give it a go when I get home from work. Here's hoping! :)

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Re: Rapid Fire works in notepad but not in mame games (e.g. 1942)

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Hi - I downloaded mameuifx32-0.137(Xpadder).zip and am now running mameuifx32.exe which works fine but rapid-fire still does not work. I'm using an xbox controller and in mame have assigned the fire button to Y and A buttons (top and bottom). I've assigned rapid fire to the Y button but there's no difference in using Y or A buttons in the game. Neither rapid fire.

Has anyone successfully got this to work? Is there a step I'm missing? (Tried on 1942, Ghosts and Goblins - no dice)

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Rob

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Re: Rapid Fire works in notepad but not in mame games (e.g. 1942)

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Does it work if you select a longer time for the turbo (maybe 2 seconds).
Maybe MAME translates the rapid input into hold key, in this case nothing could change this.

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Re: Rapid Fire works in notepad but not in mame games (e.g. 1942)

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Tried that - no dice - thanks for the suggestion though.

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Re: Rapid Fire works in notepad but not in mame games (e.g. 1942)

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Turbo only acts on the emulated keyboard presses assigned with Xpadder not the actual raw controller data. In MAME assign fire to a key and then in Xpadder assign that key to the buttons and it should work.

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Re: Rapid Fire works in notepad but not in mame games (e.g. 1942)

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Yup - that did it. Thanks CableDog!

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Re: Rapid Fire works in notepad but not in mame games (e.g. 1942)

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SGTCableDog wrote:MAME uses an input method that is not compatable with Xpadder without patching MAME. Jonathan has made patched versions of popular versions.
This link no longer works. Was this supposed to be a link to a version of mame that is already recompiled to work with Xpadder? I found the walkthrough tutorial here:
http://xpadder.com/forum4/viewtopic.php ... 436#p11436
I just don't understand why each person has to go through all of these steps. Has anyone already done all of this work and can share the end result? :?:

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