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Misaki Town Bakery => Ciel's Tech Support => : Cristu May 21, 2012, 06:49:13 PM

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: Two Keyboards: players hitting other key, how to solve
: Cristu May 21, 2012, 06:49:13 PM

Well, I've held lots of tourneys (80% of the people here use keyboard) and never had this problem at all. But I see people are still concerned, I guess it's understandable since competition is serious business. Banning keyboard is really drastic, though, since MBAACC is a PC game and you play those on keyboard. So here's the solution:

People who'll want to use keyboard should bring:
- 1 usb keyboard without any key
- 10 keys to put in up, down, left, right, A, B, C, D, Q & start

There are people who use the left hand for diretionals and people who use the right hand, so 4 configs are needed:

- left/right
- left/left
- right/left
- right/right

No customization allowed. Distance between diretionals and buttons should be the same for both hands and both sides.

Alternatively you can just remove the keys your opponent is going to use from your keyboard. Just don't forget to remove windows, esc, alt, tab, etc, f's, etc.

: Re: Two Keyboards: players hitting other key, how to solve
: ZomB May 21, 2012, 07:04:02 PM

On a more devious level, the competitor might sabotage a match by pressing the wrong keys on purpose.

While there's no clear solution to this on a 2 keyboard level (even removing keys you can still press the switches), for a keyboard vs stick/pad match, you can bind every 2p key to the same button. I haven't actually tested it, but ideally pressing that button would pause the match.

: Re: Two Keyboards: players hitting other key, how to solve
: ehrik May 23, 2012, 06:14:07 PM

Too much work, but if people can do it go for it

: Re: Two Keyboards: players hitting other key, how to solve
: Irysa May 24, 2012, 09:00:00 PM

Or just get a keystick/keyboard converted to outputting as a pad/stick via only the switches that match up to the regular butotns being relevant. Then the thing basically is the same as a pad for any intents and purposes of playing.

It's not really too hard to make either.

: Re: Two Keyboards: players hitting other key, how to solve
: [svx] June 10, 2012, 02:26:04 AM

Raptor lk1 is good kb for the tourney setting since when a key is removed, it (the switch) can't be pressed anymore. Thus, when 2 players use these kbs, they can't "sabotage" even if they want.
(http://www.platformnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/LK1_keys_black.jpg)