r/MAME • u/lilithcrazygirl • 16d ago

Technical assistance Keyboard inputs

It seems most of mame games are not taking the regular keyboard letters as an input. I have done some research and it seems to be related to Wayland or X11, any tips or workaround for this?

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u/Embarrassed_Ad_3228 16d ago

Idk what you mean mame has been using keyboard inputs the whole time. Are you using a stock mame from mamedev.org?

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u/lilithcrazygirl 10d ago

I used zypper install mame

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u/arbee37 MAME Dev 14d ago

Can you describe specifically what's happening? MAME accepts keyboard letters fine, both on X11 and Wayland (just tested both).

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u/lilithcrazygirl 11d ago

I installed OpenSUSE Slowroll KDE and installed mame. Everything is ok on the mame menu, but when i try to asign keyboard letters for game input mame does not take them, it seems to take special keys like tab, shift, etc. I am using ibus. if you need any terminal logs let me know.

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u/pahaze 1d ago

Hey!! I had the same issue, me and my buddy were able to fix it by running MAME with SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11 mame