Controller Setting for all Games in WinKawaks

Junaid Ahmed

27 Mar, 2013

Controller Setting for all Games in WinKawaks - WinKawaks Emulator Joypad Setting for all Games

How to do the Controller setting for all Games in WinKawaks? First, what's WinKawaks! WinKawaks is an Emulator which will let you play NeoGeo and Capcom Classic Games and WinKawaks supported approximately 600+ games, so it's quite boring for the Game Lovers to set their Joypad/Stick setting for all 600+ games manually and it will take a huge time to complete this process. Most of the users are searching the internet that how can they set their Joypad/Sticks settings for all games automatically but many of them can't find the way. So my visitors are here to know this secret, which is really easy to set. You don't need any Tool or Software for doing it. This tutorial will teach you to set your WinKawaks Emulator Joypad/Sticks setting for all games. It doesn't matter that you have more than one Joypad you can set up to 4 Joypads.

People are here very curious to know the trick. It's requested to all who are using this Tutorial follow the below steps respectively to avail of this advantage. Neglecting any Step will not fix the issue. Many people around the world have faced problems with WinKawaks Joypad or Joysticks setting because every time they are required to Redefine their Joypad/Stick setting in every game they want to play.

Controller Setting for all Games in WinKawaks!

What's the purpose of this tutorial? Well, the Controller setting for all games in WinKawaks is a much-needed thing if you play Arcade Neo Geo Games with your Joystick or Joypad Controller then why not set the Controller Setting for all Games in WinKawaks, so WinKawaks is an emulator and it can have multiple like hundreds of game in ROMs directory so you can enjoy playing games via it, but if you have a controller and you wanna play with it and suppose you set controller settings for a game, then the same setting won't be working in others games until you do it by yourself and set Controller settings for all games in WinKawaks by following the below steps and method.

Step #1

Connect your Joypads/Joysticks with your Computer.

Step #2

Go to the Root Directory of WinKawaks Emulator and Double Click
on "WinKawaks.exe" to start Emulator.

Step #3

Click on "File" then click on "Load game" or Use "Alt+L" as
Shortcut key.

Step #4

Select any available game then click on the "OK" button.

Step #5

After a few seconds when the game will be loaded then just use "Enter"
a button from Keyboard to Pause the game.
Go to "Game>>Redefine keys...>>>Redefine keys Player 1...

Step #6

Set your Joypad setting once according to your choice. As mentioned
in the pic. If you have another Joypad the revise Step5 and go to
"Redefine keys Player2..." and again do Step6 for the second Joypad.

Step #7

After setting your Joypad or Joypads just go to "Game" and click on
"Save settings to .ini now". As shown in the pic.

Step #8

Now just go to "WinKawaks\ini". You will find "ini" folder inside
WinKawaks root directory. As I set up my Joypad setting with
"2020 Base Ball" due to which a file namely "2020bb.ini" was placed.
(You might be different than this one). Just Double Click on it.

Step #9

Select all Keys which were placed under "Player 1" text as
mentioned in the above pic and "Copy" them.

Step #10

Now back to the "WinKawaks" root directory. You will find 2 files,
which are "defaultkeysCPS.ini" and "defaultkeysMVS.ini".
Open "defaultkeysCPS.ini" and replace all the keys under
Player 1 text using "Paste".

Step #11

Now hit the Save button or "Ctrl+S" to save it.
(If using 2 or more Joypads then go to Step 9 and select & copy
all keys under Player 2 text and paste them as shown in Step 10)
Same Procedure for 3rd/4th JoyPads.

Step #12

Open "defaultkeysMVS.ini" and replace all the keys under
Player 1 text using "Paste" as shown above pic as well as Step 9.

Step #13

Finally hit Save button or "Ctrl+S" to save it.

(If using 2 or more Joypads then go to Step 9 and select/copy

all keys under Player 2 text and paste them as shown in Step 10)

Same Procedure for 3rd/4th JoyPads.

Now Open or Load any game and Play it using your Joypad/Joysticks without any further trouble and enjoy this trick.

Controller Setting for all Games in WinKawaks

"The ini file entitled "defaultkeysMVS.ini" is for NeoGeo/SNK games, which will allow you to use the default setting for Joypad to all available NeoGeo Games, while "defaultkeysCPS.ini" is for Capcom games and it'll allow you to set your Joypad setting for all available Capcom Games."

So that's the fixing for this Troubleshoot.

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Controller Setting for all Games in WinKawaks