Battlezone Control/Emulator Help
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I'm struggling with Battlezone and a control scheme close to the original. On the forums (from 2-3 years ago) it looks like people had success with adv mame, but when I launch it, it just goes back to emulation station. LR-MAME is the only one that seems to work.
That being said, I can't seem to get a control scheme set up like the original 2-joystick arcade. Does anyone have any advice on how to set this one up?
Thanks!
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@drdave79 said in Battlezone Control/Emulator Help:
but when I launch it, it just goes back to emulation station
That's gonna happen a lot if you launch random arcade romsets with random arcade emulators without reading https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Arcade/
@drdave79 said in Battlezone Control/Emulator Help:
Does anyone have any advice on how to set this one up?
Without knowing what kind of controller you are using ? On a modern gamepad, i think mapping left stick to L/L2, right stick to R/R2, and fire to B is perfect, but that might not be what you are using as a controller.
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@barbudreadmon It works fine in LR-MAME. And sorry, I'm using a stand up arcade cabinet with two arcade joysticks, 6 buttons each.
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@drdave79 said in Battlezone Control/Emulator Help:
It works fine in LR-MAME
Yes, and you don't know why it doesn't in advmame because you didn't read the documentation i linked.
@drdave79 said in Battlezone Control/Emulator Help:
I'm using a stand up arcade cabinet with two arcade joysticks
Imho, avoiding the sticks and mapping everything to your 6 buttons is probably the best choice, 2 reasons :
- most likely, your sticks aren't 2-ways, so only using up/down might be tricky
- pressing the fire button at the same you hold your 2 sticks seems tricky
But maybe someone will have a better recommendation.
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@barbudreadmon I take the advice from these forums very seriously. I did read that page, but since the rom worked in LR-MAME, I wasn't sure what point you were trying to make. I'm sure I have the wrong rom set of Battlezone to work in Advmame, but will have to look into that later. I'm still learning how to verify romset versions.
You make a great point on avoiding the joysticks altogether and using buttons only. I do see the setup when hitting tab. Do you happen to have a screen shot of yours that works?
Thanks!
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@drdave79 So, I'm also using a twin-stick setup with six buttons per stick, laid out like this:
Y X L
B A RMy Battlezone config is this:
So I have three options, all of which which I can switch between during the game any time I feel like it without having to pause.
(1) the four leftmost buttons to control the tank tracks, and the top-right button to fire (very comfortable)
(2) the two sticks to control the tank tracks and the Y and B buttons on the second stick to fire (also pretty comfortable)
(3) the left joystick for the left track, the left X and A buttons for the right track, and the right L button to fire (also pretty comfortable).
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@jimmyfromthebay That's very helpful, thanks for responding. With that set-up, I found that Y & X did the same movement as B & A. So not sure what the difference is, but it worked pretty well. What emulator are you using? Your screen shot looks different than mine. I'm using AdvMame .94
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@drdave79 lr-mame2003-plus.
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@drdave79 on a sidenote, i was thinking about this game over the past few days, and came up with a nice "hack" to provide simplified inputs for this game in FBNeo :
- pressing "up" will trigger "Right Up" & "Left Up", meaning you'll go forward
- pressing "down" will trigger "Right Down" & "Left Down", meaning you'll go backward
- pressing "left" will trigger "Right Up" & "Left Down", meaning you'll turn left
- pressing "right" will trigger "Right Down" & "Left Up", meaning you'll turn right
I'm thinking of trying to use diagonals to also map the 4 remaining combinations later today.Done, all 8 combinations are now usable from the 8-ways stick or dpad, and i think it fits quite nicely :- pressing "up"+"right" will trigger "Left Up", meaning you'll go right forward
- pressing "down"+"right" will trigger "Left Down", meaning you'll go right backward
- pressing "up"+"left" will trigger "Right Up", meaning you'll got left forward
- pressing "down"+"left" will trigger "Right Down", meaning you'll left backward
(the non-"hacked" versions of those controls are still mapped to their usual place, meaning L/L2/R/R2)
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@drdave79 said in Battlezone Control/Emulator Help:
I do see the setup when hitting tab. Do you happen to have a screen shot of yours that works?
I forgot to mention it but i rarely use MAME (i'm actually a FBNeo developer), so i can't provide you a screenshot of MAME's OSD.
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@barbudreadmon that's fine, I got it to work. Thank you for your work on FBNeo! I appreciate all that you contribute.
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