Agreed, autofire is not allowed in all games of this tournament.(posted 9666 days ago)Also note: maybe autofire should be allowed in some future games that aren't made incredibly by allowing it. i believe autofire may increase the number of players to enter the tournament, since a lot of people that have played video games or have typed for decades can not bang on a button hundreds of times per minute for hours, but they could hold down the button a few times per minute. I think this might be close to discrimination against people who have mangled hand muscles. I'm sure people who don't experience any pain from excessive typing or playing are going to say this is bullshit, but it's not.
I think there is an internal mame feature for autofire which can be used with the keyboard, but it may be in the development stages or in another version of mame (kbmame); i use a decent digital joystick on it's last leg which has an on/off autofire switches.