Whenever anyone - including myself - types anything, my controls lock up and I can’t do anything until it disappears off the screen. It started doing this a couple months ago, but I’d been using MAME for like 5 years prior and never had any problems.
I had this problem too, people didn’t believe me when I said my controls locked up because people in the 6 player games kept chatting. I don’t really know how to fix it, the best I can do is just limit the amount of time the text is up (it seems to be related to this). The problem will completely disappear (I think) if you just change the time to 0, in which case you won’t see any text.
Happened me to with Kawaks and Kaillera today. Pissed me off since I’m such a noob at all this.
I couldn’t find a solution for this either.
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It never happened to me.
Must be bad in Beat’en up games.(Final Fight,Cardilacs and dinosaurs,etc…)