2nd Fire Button

21 January 2002, 15:57

Is there a way to emulate a second fire button (or possibly more) in WinUAE using keyboard emulation? I ask this because I can't get Darkseed CD32 working using keyboard emulation as I only seem to have the one fire button.

Cheers in advance.......

P.S. I will eventually buy myself a new joypad

Ian · 21 January 2002, 16:04

WinUAE emulates two Amiga fire buttons when you use a joystick/pad, however you'll probably need a tool from aminet called FakePad to emulate all the CD32 buttons properly.

Alternatively, use Project 32 by WindowsKiller or wait for Toni's CD32 beta version of WinUAE to be released.

Drake1009 · 21 January 2002, 18:48

How about if you use keyboard? Is there any hope there?

MethodGit · 21 January 2002, 19:24

Another suggestion could be to request or just hope that the WHDLoad team fix the game at some point: most of the time they put some code in the slaves for CD³² games that allows them to make the function keys at the top emulate the extra buttons.

IMO FakePad isn't very reliable in some conditions - I remember I had trouble with it co-operating with D-Generation (when run from hard-disk).

Ian · 21 January 2002, 22:58

Quote:

Originally posted by Drake1009
How about if you use keyboard? Is there any hope there?

Well, if I'm reading what Toni has posted previously correctly, once he's got his CD32 emu working to a reasonable level of compatabilty/stabilty/whatever, he's going to allow us to configure the buttons to whatever we want, instead of having them hard coded like they are currently in his private version.

Although I haven't tried it personally, I think FakePad maps the extra keys to the keyboard anyway, you should try it, whats the worst that could happen

andreas · 22 January 2002, 01:21

Quote:

WinUAE emulates two Amiga fire buttons when you use a joystick/pad

Ian, unfortunately this doesn't work for me yet.
Take Flashback as an example: Flashback DOES support 2 buttons, but I cannot use the second button of my joystick in WinUAE when I change to 2 button mode in the game.
Could you please try it yourself and report your results?
(or anyone else, that is)

Ian · 22 January 2002, 01:32

Works fine for me Andreas, with both my joythings

Gravis Exterminator and some cheap, nasty USB 8 button pad that came with my old computer.

Using the latest WinUAE of course

andreas · 22 January 2002, 19:21

Bloody 'el Ian, I stand corrected.

It actually worked, even with Flashback.
This must really be a RECENT fix. I couldn't get it to work in 0.8.14 versions, nor did I succeed in 0.8.16 versions.
If I do need a 2-button joystick (or can make life easier by utilizing 2 buttons) I won't use 0.8.8 anymore.
Great!

21 January 2002, 15:57	#1
Doozy Posts: n/a	2nd Fire Button Is there a way to emulate a second fire button (or possibly more) in WinUAE using keyboard emulation? I ask this because I can't get Darkseed CD32 working using keyboard emulation as I only seem to have the one fire button. Cheers in advance....... P.S. I will eventually buy myself a new joypad

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21 January 2002, 16:04	#2
Ian Global Moderator Join Date: May 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 46 Posts: 2,287	WinUAE emulates two Amiga fire buttons when you use a joystick/pad, however you'll probably need a tool from aminet called FakePad to emulate all the CD32 buttons properly. Alternatively, use Project 32 by WindowsKiller or wait for Toni's CD32 beta version of WinUAE to be released.

21 January 2002, 18:48	#3
Drake1009 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Denmark Posts: 2,284	How about if you use keyboard? Is there any hope there?

21 January 2002, 19:24	#4
MethodGit Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: The Streets Age: 39 Posts: 2,731	Another suggestion could be to request or just hope that the WHDLoad team fix the game at some point: most of the time they put some code in the slaves for CD³² games that allows them to make the function keys at the top emulate the extra buttons. IMO FakePad isn't very reliable in some conditions - I remember I had trouble with it co-operating with D-Generation (when run from hard-disk).

22 January 2002, 01:32	#7
Ian Global Moderator Join Date: May 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 46 Posts: 2,287	Works fine for me Andreas, with both my joythings Gravis Exterminator and some cheap, nasty USB 8 button pad that came with my old computer. Using the latest WinUAE of course

22 January 2002, 19:21	#8
andreas Zone Friend Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Germany Age: 50 Posts: 5,857	Bloody 'el Ian, I stand corrected. It actually worked, even with Flashback. This must really be a RECENT fix. I couldn't get it to work in 0.8.14 versions, nor did I succeed in 0.8.16 versions. If I do need a 2-button joystick (or can make life easier by utilizing 2 buttons) I won't use 0.8.8 anymore. Great!

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