Cannot Access Mame Menu

[BaviaanNL]

MAME2003 Emulator

My Mame setup was working great until I was visited today by some younger relatives, I was watching from a distance as one was spamming the cab button to access the service menu, I could see the menu popping up and the other kid pushing buttons to remove it. I guess a setting was changed during this process as neither my assigned key or tab is working.

I looked over this forum and can see the advice is to delete default.cfg from within the roms/mame2003 folder although deleting this has not fixed the issue.

Anything else I can try?

[TrollMan420]

I bet you could resolve this by checking the config file for any reference to that mapped key.
Here:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mame-libretro/mame2003/cfg
or perhaps here:
If you are using arcade, it should be in (mine is):
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/mame2003/cfg/

Got this info from a post here: (post by Floob)
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4181/lr-mame2003-cfg-files/3

[BaviaanNL]

My cfg files are located in roms/mamelibretro/mame2003/cfg.

I cannot view any of the files contents, it loads up a page of gobbledygook, including the default.cfg file.

From what I gather, deleting the default.cfg file from this location should return the mame menu key back to tab although in my case it doesn't... very confused :/

[BaviaanNL]

I just uninstalled rt-mame2003 and then reinstalled from source as I thought this would set everything back to normal although tab is still not working.

[mediamogul]

@baviaannl said in Cannot Access Mame Menu:

I cannot view any of the files contents, it loads up a page of gobbledygook, including the default.cfg file.
From what I gather, deleting the default.cfg file from this location should return the mame menu key back to tab although in my case it doesn't... very confused :/

How are you viewing your files and what exactly are you doing to delete default.cfg? Also, if you could fill out the information requested at https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first it would help us help you better.

[BaviaanNL]

Pi Model or other hardware: (Pi 3, )
Power Supply used: (Original Power Supply)
RetroPie Version Used (4.3.10)
Built From: (Downloaded official image)
USB Devices connected: USB Wireless Keyboard, IPAC2
Controller used: IPAC 2
Emulator rt-mame2003

I was viewing the files over a network share, I also deleted by this method.

[BaviaanNL]

I can't explain this although turned the machine on this morning and tab now works!! Maybe physically powering the machine down overnight helped in some way, who knows!!

[mitu]

@baviaannl Maybe the youngster came back and re-mapped the buttons by mistake :).