Hi Kenny, your a star, worked lie a dream! One of my biggest gripes about the computer game industry is the lack of thought for us ‘Lefties’ especially joystick and steering systems!!!!
Have a great Christmas, I’ll be shitting myself playing Dead Space!
Cheers from Melbourne, Australia
James

I preffer this config
to walk (Thanks for the Tip was verry helpfull)
5C: CB
AC: D0
14C: C8
23C: CD

I decide use Enter key to use and pickup thinks
(9C is for KeyPad Enter Key)
70: 1C
71: 9C (use /get)

189: 1C (TK Module)

and ESC to leave menus
201: 01

Thanks Again for the tips

Thanks, you saved the day. I was going to shelve this game until EA did something to correct this major insult. I’ve been playing first and third person shooters since the beginning and this is the first I’ve seen that locks out the arrow keys.

Have you found a way to reassign the RIG keys? (marked red in the control settings). I tried to find the offsets but didn’t manage to do so. I suspect those settings aren’t kept in the control.rmp file.

The reason I want to reassign the RIG keys is that BOTH my character AND the highlighted cell in the RIG move at the same time, when I use the arrow keys.

Well, I’m playing on a notebook without a keypad, but I think I can manage to do it. I’ll just have to reassign the mapping under “8″. (2,4 and 6 are under K,U and O, and I don’t need those keys).

Thanks Kenny, now I can walk with keypad-arrow keys as I always do, with this.
—————-
5C: 4B
AC: 50
14C: 48
23C: 4D

Dude you are a lifesaver! I was ready to scrap this game and found your post. Everything works great. Used Paluan’s code to map Enter key as well. Thanks to you all.

erm… I don’t have this file in my (Vista) computer… searched everywhere in fact

@NLS

Same here (also on Vista)…seems the Vista-people will have to stick with GlovePIE

Hi,

So glad to see there’s hope on this one, being a lefty I have the same prob as most of you guys! But PROBLEM!

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/jonofwrath/Menofindy.jpg

In the place where you say (C:\Documents and Settings\Jonathan Rudd\My Documents\Electronic Arts\Dead Space) for me, even with hidden files shown, all there is here is a file called ‘joypad example’ : /

I have XP.

I’ve looked in similar folders but this is the one with Dead Space in. I’ve looked in the installation folder(s) too. The file I need to change isn’t there either. I’d rather do it this way than use GlovePie but I have that as a last resort.

Any help?

Cheers, J

@Jonathan

Um, I pasted in the address you put above and just added my log on name and put the file from you in that folder and WHAMMY. Works! Thanks!

That rmp file mention mouse smoothing, Kenny? Even with vsync forced off, the mouse smoothing is a bitch.

This fixed my mouse problems:
- turn off vsync
- To increase the sensitivity beyond the maximum, go to “C:\Users\”USER-NAME”\AppData\Local\Electronic Arts\Dead Space” (WinVista) and open “settings.txt”. Edit the line with mouse sensitivity from 1.00000000 to something like 1.5 or 2.0 like shown below:
Control.MouseSensitivity = 1.70000000

GOD BLESS THE ARROW-KEYS!

Thanks for doing us arrow fans a great favor.
A little more help if you don’t mind.
I would like to have Enter (1C) bind as Pickup key.
I’ve downloaded the XVI32 Hex tool but I don’t understand where to change the text.

If you have a Rmp file allready set with 1C please upload it.

Thanks and happy new year to ya all

Deadkeys… take a look bottom left of the XVI32 window, where it says ADR HEX: it will give you numbers and letters.

Basically (and this should serve as reference for everyone who does not know, on how to read hex keys) a hexadecimal number is a bunch of digits and letters that represent numbers from 0 to 16. Unfortunately, Hexadecimal does not recognize any numbers after 9, so they get turned into letters, a through f. We use Base 10 numbers which is why 10 is TEN, but in hex, 10 is SEVENTEEN. I know it seems convoluted but I am going to try to explain it in rice and beans terms.

If you click on the first box on the left hand side of the window, the value will be 0 on the bottom right hand side ADR HEX. If you keep clocking to the boxes right of the next one it will increase in numbers from 0 through 9, but where it should be number 10, you’ll find that ADR HEX will display an A.

So, you don’t need to learn this, but as a point of reference, from numbers 0 through 9 is ok, but number 10 is really A, 11 is really B, 12 is really C, until you get to F which is really 16. In hex, when you go one step after F (which is square 16) and go to the next one, you need to carry the number to the LEFT, or 10. Now, 10 in hex does not mean TEN… it means SEVENTEEN. 11 is the EIGHTEEN square, and as such 1A is the TWENTYSEVENTH square. Once you get to 1F where do you go?

20

Get the idea?

If you look on the bottom left corner of the screen, youll see de ADR HEX changing when you click on the squares. THIS number that changes on the bottom is what they’re calling the OFFSET. The VALUE is what you will be changing inside the little box. Keep clicking on the boxes using the ADR HEX bottom right hand side to guide you where the OFFSET would be and CHANGE the value in the box by clicking on it once and highlighting it, then type the new value there.

remember that everything that goes after 9 has to be a LETTER until you reach F and then carry a one to the left, as such:

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F, 20, 21, 22, and so on…

When you get to FF, what goes after it? You got it, 100

Hope this helps, as I don’t know how to make it much more simpler… if anyone else knows then by all means go ahead, edit my post or delete it in favor of yours

Ta very muchly

hi this application sounds great but does it help to be able to ues the mouse to move forward on the left button and fire on the right button

C:\Users\your user id\AppData\Local\Electronic Arts for vista user and to see control.rmp change few key config it would pop up in the directory then simply replace

i still dont get it..i opened the controls.rmp file with XVI32 but it all
looks like jibberish to me

I can finally play the game now. I tried doing this before but was expecting ASCII codes. Scan codes didn’t cross my mind, plus those escape pairs confused me. Thanks!

Is there any chance someone can describe how to edit the rmps for mouse keys? eg: left click, right click? (USB mouse)
TIA

Thanks for the post man! I would like to ask you something: can you do a table with each offset and the assigned function?

Until now I understand only these codes. I will have to search for the others, but I am in trouble with mouse codes – I still cannot find them.

offset 5C = move forward
offset AC = move back
offset 14C = move left
offset 23C = move right

offset 189 = tk module
offset 201 = leave menus

I will keep googling about this, but if you do have any knowledge about this mapping, please share it. I will write a full tutorial about mapping other keys.
thanks.
[skaarj]

Kenny, firstly thank you for rescuing this game for me……I gave up trying with the WASD. Great work and thanks for your patience with us all.

Can you explain your comment below? I am trying to map the right mouse to walk and the left mouse to fire. I have tried doing what you suggest by making and oldcontrol.rmp, but I’m not sure what to do in the command line. I couldn’t get this command to work. I’m not even sure the mouse keys will show as a change (?)

fc /b controls.old controls.rmp

Thanks

Mate, I can’t thank you enough for this fix. Electronic Arts continue to blow me away with their mindless ‘my way or the highway attitude’.

Kenny, thanks so much for this – after some trial and error and that great keymap link I got my customized keymap set up.

Quick question, you wouldn’t happen to have the defaults mapped out would you?

Aka default up =
Default down =

Thanks again mate – absolutely brilliant!

@David C
Hi mate, have you sorted this mice set up? I’m not even gona play this game unless I can modify my right mice to run and left to shoot… Also does anybody know if there is a way to swich to first person view in this game? The fird person from the back staff is really ennoing, so far I feel like I shouldn’t have bought that EA crap…

Hi

sorry to be a pain but I still cant seem to locate the controls.rmp file even after enabling hidden folders. The file is just not there. I want to place the file provided in the folder but i am afraid it might mess things up while the games running. Heres a screenshot of the folder:

http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/quicsilver/?action=view&current=Untitled-1.jpg

Let me know if anyone can help. thanks

Hey everyone, I checked a load of forums on the subject “Dead Space control bug”, but haven’t come up with one that helped me with my problem:

The controls in Dead Space seem to have a constant input of the ‘up’ and ‘left’ controls: in the game the camera continuously turns up and left, going out of control. The only thing to do is slide the mouse down and right in an effort to keep the view steady, but the second you stop it spins in circles to the ceiling again, making it simply impossible to play.

I tried reinstalling my mouse, checking for control options, even changed the visual settings all around; nothing has effect.
For the rest it works fine; running on a 2.4 gig Quadcore, with 4G Ram and an ATI Radeon 4870 512mb, it runs like a freighttrain on steroids, even on the highest settings.

Did anyone else come around this problem, and/or knows how to get rid of it..?

Greetz, Tim.

Timmy84 – I had the same issue. I believe its something to do with joystick detection, as once I unplugged my Logitech joystick I didn’t have the problem anymore. I’d unplug all input devices except your keyboard/mouse, then see if you still have that issue.

Fantastic work Kenny! It seems theres more arrow key game players out there than most realise.

Your “controls.rmp” should be a mandatory addition on the Deadspace disc so arrow players at least “have a choice”.

Thanks again.

Guys is there any way to map right mouse click to ” move forward” using the hex editing method described above by Kenny? I play every game with this as my default bind so I need to be able to change it. Without this, I cant play the game and I REALLY want to play this game.

I cant understand why basic keyboard/mouse mapping is not supported properly by the game. Its not exactly rocket science.

Any advice greatly appreciated….

Muster

Thanks for your reply Kenny.

Really disappointed to hear there’s no way around this issue.

I would NEVER have bought this game if I was aware of this issue beforehand. Pity I cant return it or else I would have.

Guess I will just move on to some other game…

Muster

OMG!

Kenny I have only one word for you – LIFESAVER!!!

I am playing DS right now using Glovepie. It WORKED great!

No thanks to EA though. All thanks to YOU, GlovePie and “helloImMark”.

Cheers
Muster

Just like to give you a big thank-you for this Kenny. I’m left handed too and I’ve always used the arrow keys for movement.

One of the things that put me off this game (as well as the DRM) was the lack of arrow key support, so I put off buying it, even though I really wanted to play it.

However I found out about your arrow key fix, and recently saw the game the game on sale mega cheap, and so I bought it and your fix works perfectly!

Along with the other fixes like tweaking the mouse sensitivity up beyond its normal limits in the config file, and forcing vsync in the graphics card settings this fix has made the game as playable as it should have been in the first place.

I couldn’t – wouldn’t – have played this game without your fix, so again many thanks!

Thank you ever so much. You have made Dead Space Playable for a Handicapped person without your key fix with the aarrows I would not be able to play the game!

Thanks a lot, Kenny !!!
For me is normal to play with arrows, otherwise I wouldn’t play this game.
Thanks

Regards

what if you prefer using the key pad arrows? how do we edit the control file to do that?

This is absolutely necessary for people like me who only use the arrow keys. Thank you very much for this walkthrough. Awesome!

People like you make all the difference in the world! People who care to share and therefore help the others. I wouldn’t play this game if not for this; and now that I’m playing it I can say that it is no more no less than AAA fun! Simply amazing!

Honestly, I don’t know what I would have done without your help. I have re-mapped all of the number pad buttons to my usual spec and also remapped the arrow keys, took me a couple hours to get everything perfect, it was my first time using a hex editor. My friends, if this is your first time doing something like this, just use your head and everything will be fine, if you run into any problems, post them here, these people are really knowledgeable, wow, I am really impressed, honestly, left handed people have it hard sometimes I swear, especially when you can’t find the green-handle scissors, stupid scissors! Because I am a perfectionist(as we all are, cuz left-handed people are awesome-o! and cool!), I tried to remap the keys for the “RIG Mode Controls,” but they are not in that file, I tried to find out where they were, but I couldn’t but the game functions well enough even with a couple of dual-mapped controls so all is good. Again, thank you!

big thanks kenny!!! i prefer walking with the arrow keys as well
(although right handed )

big thanks Mordred for the tutorial!
i was able to create a controls.rmp myself!

Another ex-frustrated leftie who only just found this.

EA 0, Kenny 1

Thanks a bunch. ))

Hey!

I downloaded this game through steam and would like to apply the arrow key fix but am not sure how…

Jesus bless you!
Chris

FYI, for people using the GlovePIE-based solution, here’s a more comprehensive fix which solves both the key binding issue and the mouse sensitivity issue. Note that there’s also a mouse ‘lag’ issue solved by disabling V-sync.

Copy/Paste the following:

/* Key bindings – Force use of numpad */
Key.W = Keyboard.NUMPAD8
Key.A = Keyboard.NUMPAD4
Key.S = Keyboard.NUMPAD2
Key.D = Keyboard.NUMPAD6

/* Mouse sensitivity multiplier */
var.X.magnify = 2
var.Y.magnify = 2

if(var.X.oldVal != mouse.DirectInputX) {
var.X.newVal = mouse.DirectInputX + (var.X.magnify-1)*(mouse.DirectInputX – var.X.oldVal)
mouse.DirectInputX = var.X.newVal
var.X.oldVal = var.X.newVal
}
if(var.Y.oldVal != mouse.DirectInputX) {
var.Y.newVal = mouse.DirectInputX + (var.Y.magnify-1)*(mouse.DirectInputX – var.Y.oldVal)
mouse.DirectInputX = var.Y.newVal
var.Y.oldVal = var.Y.newVal
}

Erm sorry major typo… In last IF block, should be DirectInputY. Re-posted to avoid confusion:

/* Key bindings – Force use of numpad */
Key.W = Keyboard.NUMPAD8
Key.A = Keyboard.NUMPAD4
Key.S = Keyboard.NUMPAD2
Key.D = Keyboard.NUMPAD6

/* Mouse sensitivity multiplier */
var.X.magnify = 2
var.Y.magnify = 2

if(var.X.oldVal != mouse.DirectInputX) {
var.X.newVal = mouse.DirectInputX + (var.X.magnify-1)*(mouse.DirectInputX – var.X.oldVal)
mouse.DirectInputX = var.X.newVal
var.X.oldVal = var.X.newVal
}
if(var.Y.oldVal != mouse.DirectInputY) {
var.Y.newVal = mouse.DirectInputY + (var.Y.magnify-1)*(mouse.DirectInputY – var.Y.oldVal)
mouse.DirectInputY = var.Y.newVal
var.Y.oldVal = var.Y.newVal
}

LULZ…Alright, after a bit more play I’ve made another couple improvements (call it v0.3).

- Mouse sensitivity seems to get dramatically reduced when you’re moving or aiming
- Mouse sensitivity seems to be affected by where your position(?!) within a particular room.
- I wanted a ’sticky’ RUN key (Hit “R”…Assumes run is bound to Numpad9)

/****************************
* Key bindings
****************************/

/* Force use of numpad keys */
Key.W = Keyboard.NUMPAD8
Key.A = Keyboard.NUMPAD4
Key.S = Keyboard.NUMPAD2
Key.D = Keyboard.NUMPAD6

/* Sticky RUN key – Assume NUM9 is run */
if(Pressed(Keyboard.R)) {
Toggle(Key.NUMPAD9)
}

/****************************
* Mouse Sensitivity Hack(s)
****************************/

/* Initialization */
if(var.state.initialized == 0) {
var.state.initialized = 1
var.X.magBase = 2
var.X.magAmp = 2
var.Y.magBase = 2
var.Y.magAmp = 2
var.X.magnify = var.X.magBase
var.Y.magnify = var.Y.magBase
}

/* Use ‘-’ and ‘+’ to adjust magBase */
if(Pressed(Keyboard.Equals)) {
var.X.magBase = var.X.magBase + 0.25
var.Y.magBase = var.Y.magBase + 0.25
} else if (Pressed(Keyboard.Minus)) {
var.X.magBase = |(var.X.magBase – 0.25)|
var.Y.magBase = |(var.Y.magBase – 0.25)|
}

/* Use ‘{’ and ‘}’ to adjust magAmp */
if(Pressed(Keyboard.RightBracket)) {
var.X.magAmp = var.X.magAmp + 0.25
var.Y.magAmp = var.Y.magAmp + 0.25
} else if (Pressed(Keyboard.LeftBracket)) {
var.X.magAmp = |(var.X.magAmp – 0.25)|
var.Y.magAmp = |(var.Y.magAmp – 0.25)|
}

/* Calculate mouse magnification factor */
if(Keyboard.NUMPAD8 or Keyboard.NUMPAD4 or Keyboard.NUMPAD2 or Keyboard.NUMPAD6 or mouse.RightButton) {
var.X.magnify = var.X.magAmp*var.X.magBase
var.Y.magnify = var.Y.magAmp*var.Y.magBase
} else {
var.X.magnify = var.X.magBase
var.Y.magnify = var.Y.magBase
}

/* Mouse sensitivity hack */
if(var.X.oldVal != mouse.DirectInputX) {
var.X.newVal = var.X.oldVal + var.X.magnify*(mouse.DirectInputX – var.X.oldVal)
mouse.DirectInputX = var.X.newVal
var.X.oldVal = var.X.newVal
}
if(var.Y.oldVal != mouse.DirectInputY) {
var.Y.newVal = var.Y.oldVal + var.Y.magnify*(mouse.DirectInputY – var.Y.oldVal)
mouse.DirectInputY = var.Y.newVal
var.Y.oldVal = var.Y.newVal
}

My C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Electronic Arts\Dead Space
Folder is empty!?

can somebody build up some little tool which creates a proper controls.rmp? a thing of an utility which allows the user to define the keys he wants. should be no big problem, right? unfortunately i am no programmer.

Hi all, thanks for the key tip… I made some program for configuring Dead Space keys (and mouse buttons, but i don’t know, how use middle button)… It should self-locate right configuration file (tried only on XP) and is only prototype… i need feedback from you.

http://www.rolsten.wz.cz/DeadSpaceKeys.zip

P.S.: I’m sorry for my English

Hey, does anyone know if you can set up your “right” and “left” key to rotate you view to the right or left? I like this setting so much better and strafing with “supr” and “avpag”

Also i can’t seem to rotate my view while moving which is terribad.