Street Fighter IV Keyboard Support

Moving to PC/Mac Games:

I've run into a snag with SFIV. I'm trying to get it to work using a custom control keyboard encoder and I've discovered that SF IV doesn't allow you to map both players to keyboard control. This is a bit of a problem for me so I was wondering if anyone else had encountered this problem and if so how they got around it? I'm looking for a joystick emulator that I can map keystrokes to or some other solution that might work for my particular program. I've found PPJoy, but it apparently doesn't work under Vista 64.

-Byshop

That's not an option for this setup. I need to use what I already have availble, which is keyboard encoder input only.

-Byshop

That's not an option for this setup. I need to use what I already have availble, which is keyboard encoder input only.

-Byshop

Byshop

You can't play fighting games with 2 players on the same keyboard..... it's been like this since fighting games first came out on PC. Why you ask? Cause when you are pressing more than 2 or 3 buttons on the keyboard at the same time....it locks the keyboard up. So best way, one player uses KB, the other Controller. Back about 10 years ago...a friend and I tried to install a PS2 KB and a USB KB on the same PC to play KOF....we NEARLY got it to work....lolFelipeInside

As mentioned, I'm not playing on a keyboard. I'm using a keyboard encoder. While you are correct in that many keyboards will not be able to handle the number of simultaneous button presses required for play there are many devices out there that emulate keyboard input that will. There are a number of games that allow you to try and these work great for what I'm doing.

-Byshop

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"]You can't play fighting games with 2 players on the same keyboard..... it's been like this since fighting games first came out on PC. Why you ask? Cause when you are pressing more than 2 or 3 buttons on the keyboard at the same time....it locks the keyboard up. So best way, one player uses KB, the other Controller. Back about 10 years ago...a friend and I tried to install a PS2 KB and a USB KB on the same PC to play KOF....we NEARLY got it to work....lolByshop

As mentioned, I'm not playing on a keyboard. I'm using a keyboard encoder. While you are correct in that many keyboards will not be able to handle the number of simultaneous button presses required for play there are many devices out there that emulate keyboard input that will. There are a number of games that allow you to try and these work great for what I'm doing.

-Byshop

Oh gotcha.... good luck then, hope it works out for you.... :)

Final product. Only problem is it's one player until I can solve this issue.

-Byshop

-Byshop

actually you can. I used to play Mortal Kombat and a few racing games (with split screen) with my brother from the same keyboard, and pressing more then 2-3 keys at once, and the keyboard did not lock. with XP OS and and a 5 $ keyboard, sadly this game doesn't alow this:|

IDK as i dont have the game and i have 4 xbox 360 controllers, so i dont really need that... BUT there are some keyboards that allow you more than 10 keys pressed down at the same time... and they arent that expensive, you should look around that.

my 10cents...

IDK as i dont have the game and i have 4 xbox 360 controllers, so i dont really need that... BUT there are some keyboards that allow you more than 10 keys pressed down at the same time... and they arent that expensive, you should look around that.

my 10cents...

mr_chalupa

For anybody who might be curious, I downgraded the arcade machine's OS back to XP32 and used the PPJoy joystick emulator. That corrected the problem by allowing me to map the keystrokes that the second joystick is mapped to back to an emualated joystick that is picked up by Street Fighter IV. There doesn't appear to be any control lag, although getting the buttons mapped was a little bit of a challenge.

-Byshop