w and s for movement?

[Naughtius_Maximus]

is there a way to change it to wasd as the movement keys? i can get "a" and "d" to work, but since "w" and "s" are pinned to turn 180 degree it wont let me change it. is there a way i can?

[e1a1]

Yeah that's a problem with this game. Have you tried binding keys with the dosbox keymapper?

[Naughtius_Maximus]

Originally posted by unerxai:

Yeah that's a problem with this game. Have you tried binding keys with the dosbox keymapper?

i dont have much experience with dosbox, so didnt know abotu this feature. Just tried it and it works, thanks man, using arrow keys is a terrible way to play an FPS.

[based broad]

Where is this feature? My ADD must be getting to me because I can't find it, does anyone have a step-by-step tutorial to set the keys to WASD movement?

[Karnevil #9]

What Nasum said....

[Naughtius_Maximus]

you have to press ctrl F1 while in game to bring up the dosbox key mapper.

[Karnevil #9]

Woohoo! start a game then press F6 yeah baby!

[PXL]

Originally posted by Naughtius_Maximus:

you have to press ctrl F1 while in game to bring up the dosbox key mapper.

Thank you!!

[PXL]

Ugh!!

I'm trying that F1 DOSBox trick for defining the keys, but I'm struggling to get them set. I also want to assign A to LEFT + ALT (strafe) together so that the strafing works without finger gymnastics!!

I'm subscribed to this thread so if anyone has worked it out I'd appreciate to know!

[PXL]

Ok I can now assign keys - that was a quick bit of learning - but is it possible to assign ALT (strafe) + A together to produce a A strafe?

[stargirl]

Cans someone please tell me in detail how I can change the w and s key I have bin doing this in the key mapper but it's just not workin. So I don't understand the key mapper and it's frustrating. But if someone here could just write down what did to change w and s into forwards and backward I would appreciate that thank you

[Mrzombieghost]

Originally posted by stargirl:

Cans someone please tell me in detail how I can change the w and s key I have bin doing this in the key mapper but it's just not workin. So I don't understand the key mapper and it's frustrating. But if someone here could just write down what did to change w and s into forwards and backward I would appreciate that thank you

I just use the BStone source port. You can remap controls in it.

Or you could use autohotkey. https://www.autohotkey.com/

With it you can remap your keyboard keys to another key.
Right click an empty space of windows desktop, then > New > Autohotkey script, to create a new script.
Edit the autohotkey script and put this into it:

Up::w
Down::s

In the script, The key to the left of the two colons is the old key you wanna change, and the key to the right is the resulting new key.

To find the terms for keys you can put into a script, search 'autohotkey' in windows start menu search bar, open he app and click on list of keys in the navigation pane.

You have to launch the script every time you want the new controls, and you can disable it in the task bar menu thing in the bottom right of your screen.
Personally I bind autohotkey to my task bar for quick and easy launching of scripts.

[stargirl]

Thank you so much it works ❤️

[Poet]

Old thread but I'm here from a top result Google search. I was able to get this working with the Dosbox mapper, but it wasn't straight-forward as I never use dosbox, so I wanted to help out anyone like me who struggled to get it right.

CTRL+F1 opens the mapper while you're in game.

Within the prompt, you will see arrow key icons (I had two sets of arrow keys, make sure you're mapping the ones near the top. When you click them they should be EVENTs like "key_up", "key_down", and so forth and looked like actual arrows.

Click each one, then click the "add" button near the bottom of the screen and then press the appropriate key on your keyboard. The BIND should then read like "key w" or "key a", etc.

Additionally, since W is mapped to spin the player around, you will need to click on "W" and then "Del" twice, to ensure that nothing is mapped to W. This essentially overwrites the game's internal binding.

Click "Save" at the bottom and "Exit" and you should be back in game with the appropriate WASD. Enable Mouse in the settings if you haven't already, and enjoy destroying aliens!