omg there just has to be a way!

[vesper8]

hey all

i've just spent the last 20 minutes putting some effort into what's become a must-have feature for me ! that is.. mapping the fastforward key to a game pad button !

i've come accross a neat software to do just that and it works well with a 30 day trial too. It's called 'Total Game Control'. I've now tried mapping "Backspace" to two of my gamepad keys and then to all of my mouse buttons (since the software let's you map both mouse and keyboard commands to the gamepad) and the mapping works in windows but doesn't respond in games !!

it even works in the psx configuration (IE i was able to press a button on my controller to remap 'backspace' to fastforward in the 'misc' section. But as soon as you focus the game window.. nada

it's clear that pSX doesn't want to share the gamepad with the software.. in fact even if I choose another gamepad in the controllers section.. the unused gamepad still can't simulate a 'backspace' in the game-window

so that just sux... not only have i found no way to do this from within the pSX config.. (and after a quick search on the forums it seems there is no way to do it.. yet).. but i can't even use a 3rd party software to do it

don't get me wrong though, i am infinitely grateful for the work behind this awesome emu.. but I just got addicted to the fastforward feature (which is AMAZING for replaying old games btw!) and i get annoyed from having to press the keyboard all the time.

in fact being able to map a quick save/quick load key to the gamepad as well (from within the config please.. in 1.9 ?) would also be a great addition to an already great emu!

i hope this gets heard by pSX Author.. and of course.. if one of you have already figured out how to do this.. perhaps with another key mapping software that's able to override any software for the controls of the gamepad.. do let me know please !!

muchas gracias!!

[patrickp]

Have you made sure that the button you want to use has not been assigned in pSX Controller Configuration, vesper8? Might make a difference, although I recall when pSX Author introduced save states, he used the Shift key both as part of the key combination for saves and for a default pad button setting (you'll notice that a pad button and a keyboard key are set together far a pad function). This was annoying if you played a game where that button had an action - but it did work; it performed the save state and the button action simultaneously.

Edit: just tried it myself - cleared a key (so it has no assignment that might conflict) and assigned it to the Backspace key - no, doesn't work. It would seem to me that it's not so much that pSX won't share the pad, it's that the assignation of a keyboard key in Controller Configuration is not so much to allow a controller button to perform a key function, as to allow a key to perform a button function.

[Deleted]

You could try Joy2Key. I tested it with 1.8. If I had more buttons on my pad I would use it, as it works very well.

[vesper8]

woot! thanks for letting me know about joy2key.. it's much better than the other software i was trying.. this one does mouse movement emulation perfectly! and it also manages to correct whatever was preventing the other software from working inside of pSX ! i was able to map quick-save, quick-load and fastforward to my gamepad without a hassle!~

thanks!!

[Deleted]

No problemo. I have used it for some time on various games which don't support joypads on their own. As long as you have keyboard which doesn't crap out when a lots of keys are pressed at the same time, this works great.