keyboard not working after mod

[mhose]

help
my keyboard not working. im stuck in main menu in ga :'(me

[Sega Chief]

Are you using a laptop? In the 1997 version of FF7 PC, the default buttons are mapped to the Num-Pad:



To get around that, you'll need a file called ff7input with the keys mapped to different buttons (this file gets generated when starting a new game for the first time, it's basically your custom keys + sound settings). I don't know if you can just use someone else's file, but just in case try this one: http://www.mediafire.com/download/ae637gtp7hcntt0/input.zip

Unzip that folder and drop the ff7input file into the Final Fantasy 7 folder (the one that contains a bunch of other folders called data, etc). If it does work, then it'll map your buttons to the keyboard to the settings that I have:

WASD (movement)

HJKL (Square/Switch, Confirm, Cancel, Menu)

YUIO (L2, R2, L1, R1)

Enter/Space (Start, Select)

With that you should be able to start the game and set your own button preferences through the Config screen in the party menu. Just remember to have the option set to 'Custom' rather than default otherwise the next time you start the game it'll set the buttons back to the num-pad.

[nfitc1]

In the 1997 version of FF7 PC, the default buttons are mapped to the Num-Pad...

I'm still convinced, as I was back then, that the management at Eidos said "Hey, this game only needs 14 buttons, the numpad has more than that. Let's use that exclusively for controls. What could possibly go wrong? Everyone knows that this game SHOULD be controlled by a gamepad anyway!" And since all the devs wanted to keep their jobs they refused to challenge that decision.

[DLPB_]

Does Steam version default to better keys?

[Covarr]

Does Steam version default to better keys?

Uh... that really depends on how you mean "better". It is better in that it will work correctly on a laptop, but it is worse in pretty much every other way:



This puts your pinky on OK, which is really not okay at all. It puts Switch way out of the way. It makes some minigames virtually impossible. The Steam version's default layout is nothing short of utterly atrocious.

[EQ2Alyza]

Does Steam version default to better keys?

I believe it does. Somewhere not on the numpad.