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moonpatrol

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Joy2Key with Attractmode
« on: November 03, 2018, 08:37:38 PM »
I'm not using rocketlauncher just attractmode and i was wondering if there was a way to launch joy2key with attractmode and certain emulators?

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Re: Joy2Key with Attractmode
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2018, 10:22:19 PM »
I don't see why you would need joytokey for attractmode itself but if you do you could launch attractmode using a batch file that first calls joytokey and then attractmode. If you do launch joy2key with attractmode you can use the "Associate profiles to target applications" feature of joytokey to assign different profiles for different emulators as described near the bottom of this page https://joytokey.net/en/overview.


If you don't launch joy2key with attractmode (or even if you do) you can launch joytokey when you run your emulator and define the profile you want to load.
Example of existing emulator without joytokey:
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# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.4.1
#
executable           \Emulators\MAME\mame64.exe
args                 [name]
Example of the same emulator running joytokey with a specific profile
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# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.4.1
#
executable           \JoyToKey\JoyToKey.exe mameprofile;\Emulators\MAME\mame64.exe
args                 [name]

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Re: Joy2Key with Attractmode
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2018, 01:22:29 AM »
Sorry i did not mean with attractmode. I meant is there a way to launch a emulator and joy2key at the same time?

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Re: Joy2Key with Attractmode
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2018, 12:33:34 AM »
@ moonpatrol
you could create a .bat file containing this:
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@echo off
start "" "path_to_your_emulator\your_emulator.exe"
start "" "path_to_joy2key\joy2key.exe"

or in AM:
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executable           cmd
args                 /c start "" "C:\path_to_emulator\your_emulator.exe" & start "" "path_to_joy2key\joy2key.exe"
AM Version : 2.6.1
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Re: Joy2Key with Attractmode
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2018, 03:41:12 PM »
I have joy2key and attractmode start up when I first boot my machine (using a Bat file), then joy2key switches profiles depending on the game I have running.
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Re: Joy2Key with Attractmode
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2018, 09:04:48 PM »
or in AM:
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executable           cmd
args                 /c start "" "C:\path_to_emulator\your_emulator.exe" & start "" "path_to_joy2key\joy2key.exe"

Hey hermine, i'm assuming if you did this particular argument, AM will close both the emulator and joy2key once you exit the game?  (Perhaps if you assign and use a hotkey like ESC, it will close both programs together simultaneously?)  If so, that's pretty neat and will come in handy.

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Re: Joy2Key with Attractmode
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2018, 12:26:55 AM »
@ dukpoki
Probably it will not close both programs. I do not know surely. This should do it:

See section OpenBOR.
Create an autoit script that kills your emulator and joy2key task (you have to check this information in taskmanager under details).

In AM add a third parameter:
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executable           cmd
args                 /c start "" "C:\path_to_emulator\your_emulator.exe" & start "" "path_to_joy2key\joy2key.exe" & start "" "path_to_task-kill_skript\task-kill-script.exe"
« Last Edit: November 08, 2018, 12:28:48 AM by hermine.potter »
AM Version : 2.6.1
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Re: Joy2Key with Attractmode
« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2018, 07:05:54 AM »
My Program can also convert Joypadinput into Keyboardinput...If you will try it...

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