neither Mesen nor the retroarch emulator allow diagonal shooting for smash tv

[Frozone212]

Up left and down left are fine but when I try to shop up right and down right, the controls lock and I'm limited to just up,down left and right and can't fire.

 

please help me

using keyboard controls. I'm right hand dominant so I am using the bottom right half of the keyboard K,L , . and Enter shift for start and select

[Razzie.P]

What version of Mesen are you using and what are your control mappings?  Also, are you using the "single controller" option or trying to emulate both for 2 controllers?

 

 

I just tested on Mesen 0.9.7 and diagonals worked using "single controller."   Control mappings show this ---

 

 

[Frozone212]

Controller mappings are

u d l r= arrow keys

shift and enter for start select

,.kl for a b and turbo a and b

latest version of mesen

 

I am using single controller

 

Going Diagonal left and down or up and right doesn't work

here:

Edited September 27, 2022 by Frozone212
Same issue in mesen, can't fire ne or se

[mbd39]

2 hours ago, Frozone212 said:

Up left and down left are fine but when I try to shop up right and down right, the controls lock and I'm limited to just up,down left and right and can't fire.

 

please help me

using keyboard controls. I'm right hand dominant so I am using the bottom right half of the keyboard K,L , . and Enter shift for start and select

 

Use the A button to change the direction you're shooting and hold down the B button to keep shooting in that direction while moving. Diagonal shooting should work.

[Frozone212]

Well it doesn't when I'm moving and pressing B.

[mbd39]

24 minutes ago, Frozone212 said:

Well it doesn't when I'm moving and pressing B.

 

Use A to shoot diagonally and then switch and hold B.

 

[Razzie.P]

They originally worked for you, right?  Or have you never been able to shoot properly?

 

[Frozone212]

When I hold A to shoot, it works when i'm moving nw and sw but fails to register se and sw as seen in the video. Sometimes in the thick of things, I don't have time to switch using A+b so a fix to this issue would be welcome.

[Tanooki]

But you're using a keyboard?  You could be hitting some system limitation on maximum registered keys as strange as that may be.

[Frozone212]

how can i fix that?

[Tanooki]

If you're asking me, you can't.  Keyboards can only do so many buttons input at one time before it's too many and it behaves weird or just ignores stuff.  The fix would be a plugged in game pad.

 

I just fired it up, it's the emulator I use for NES anyway.

 

Smash TV works this way on one controller

A = FIRE the way you are currently facing only

B = Hold this *after* shooting with A in a direction, it locks your aim in that same direction auto-firing until you let go.

 

It works perfectly fine on all 8 direction using a keyboard or a usb controller (plugged in the classic gravis pro pad in as a test the PS1 pre-dual shock copycat.)

 

Seems to me, you have a configuration problem or user error here.

[Frozone212]

alright.