4-player Arcade Cabinet support?

[Yonkers]

I have a 4-player arcade cabinet that emulates the keypresses using an iPAC card. I've been trying to set up Broforce for 4 players but anytime I modify the 4th keyboard config, it also changes the 3rd player and when the game starts there only ends up with P1, P2, P3... no P4.

It seems like others have had problems too but I have not seen an answer. And some of the pseudo-answers seem to mention that 4-players on a single keyboard won't work but won't mention why. Because obviously I have a ton of 4-player games on my cabinet that work just fine.

Anyone have an answer?

[Brofessional]

sounds like a bug. im sure not to many players really play with 4 keyboards so this a bug that was not found yet... most of the broforce devs look on the forums so they should see this sometime and may have a quick fix... just give it some time.

also you can post this in the development discussion forum and they should see this faster... they look there the most.

[GULES]

an IPAC should 100% work and i think in fact the reason we introduced 4 player keyboard controls is for situations like this. I'll check out 4 player controls when I'm back in the office on Monday!

[Yonkers]

Thanks, both. Some details that might help your testing.

I configured each keyboard in numerical order. The first time this happened to me I went through all 4 joysticks and then started up the game. But my normal P3 would not respond, instead it was the Fire button on my P4 that started it up. And then it turns out my P4 was the joystick controlling Player 3. I thought I had accidentally configured '3rd keyboard' a second time on the wrong stick so I went through the steps again with the same result.

So I went in and looked at the config for both 3rd and 4th keyboard and they had the exact same buttons listed. So I specifically went into '3rd keyboard' and configured it for my P3 joystick and buttons. And then went and look in '4th keyboard' and the buttons had changed over to match my P3 keymappings. And when I went to play the game, my P3 joystick was now the one controlling the actual Player 3.

So it seems that whichever one I configured last would end up overwriting the other and be in control of Player 3 in the game.

[chillicrackers]

I can confirm that this problem also exists on my 4-player cabinet, not using an IPAC but a similar product, KADE.

[GULES]

OK, thanks for the report, it will be fixed by the next update.