I just recently got done hacking up my arcade again to remove the ipac and put in my two cthulhu MC boards, they dont plug into the comptuer as a keyboard but instead as full fledged windows gamepads (like you see it in the controller section of windows with an analog,dpad,buttons) Well guess what?

Problem still not sovled!

Because for what ever reason the way the game is coded,  when you play 2 players the 2nd player has to press "start button" to join and none of the buttons seem to register to SF4 as the start button.  So the 2nd player can not play at all.

Both joysticks work but only as 1 player but selecting the "choose 1 player device" in the game options.  This shows a very poor coding of the game.  First the lack of 2 player keyboard, and now the lack of 3rd party controllers as well.

I tried everything I can think of and I  can not get the 2nd joystick in the game at the same time as the first.  So for now I am forced to make somebody play the game with a Xbox 360 controller and thats no fun for anybody.  Especially with full blown arcade controls unmaned staring you in the face.

Can Capcom confirm if this issue is being addressed or left as is? I assume the silence means we are SOL.

Jul 13, 2009 -- 4:35PM, LingPanda wrote:

Can Capcom confirm if this issue is being addressed or left as is? I assume the silence means we are SOL.

Probably so.  No love for the people who build their own controls on keyboard encoders.

Hey BILL,

Thank you so much for providing help reagarding having 2 players on 1 keyboard, unfortunately I don't understand everything your doing and I need some more help, please.

I have followed ur instructions on Page 1, Post #9. The part I get stuck at is Step 13 and beyond.

For Step 13, are we inputting the Controls we desire to use in SF4? For a small example,  I want to use:

Controller 1:

W = Up
S = Down
A = Left
D = Down

Controller 2:

UpArrow = Up
DownArrow = Down
LeftArrow = Left
RightArrow = Right

Now I have all my keys set up properly in PPJoykey for P1 and P2 all using different keys for each movement and attack, which will allow 2 players to play on the keyboard.

The next part is to map these keys to the SF4 Launcher, Controller Setting, I mapped all the keys, also have the bottom drop down set to custom. I did the same for P2.

Then I click Launch SF4, now this is where parts get confusing.

NOTE: PPJoykey  states the following comment at the top "sending Joystick updates to PPJoy.

Step 18 states, go into Option and click on "Assign 1P Device" I did this like 100 times, and nothing works, none of my keys work, and I can't move in a game. Like what do I do? How do I make SF4 understand I want to use PPJoy Keys as apposed to the builtin SF4 keyboard keys.

I have went into Options -> Keyboard Settings -> Button Layout, set it to Custom, un-bind all keys, and now nothing works. I can't move can't do anything...

Please help, I know have I set everything right in PPJoykey and Controller Setting but I don't get how SF4 understands my keys from PPJoy in order to allow 2 players.

Thanks in advance.

Hi BILL,

Thanks for the list of buttons we can't use, but still, nothing works for me.

I just tried using ur PPjoy scripts and setup everything in Controller Settings exactly like yours, but in game nothing works.

I went to Assign P1 Device, I press "Q" since that key is used on your PPJoy1key and nothing works.

I think my problem has something to do with the following game menus:

Button Config
Keyboard Settings

Can you give me specific details as to what I need to do here then, because this is where I think my problem lays.

I know ur using an X-arcade that's fine, I just want this PPJoykey (re-mapping) stuff to work, I can't get anything right LOL, once I get the keys to work out right, then I can proceed with other ways to make 2 players on 1 keyboard or 2 players on 2 keyboards more comfortable.

BUT for now I just need SF4 and PPJoy to work together, in which there are evidently not, because I don't know what to do in game, aside from Assigning P1 Device.

Thanks in advance.