@djdarlo
I think linux consider a keyboard key as a keyboard key, no matter what keyboard has its key pressed. It doesn't care about "this key comes from keyboard1, this key comes from keyboard2".

You have to set different keys for players1 and 2.

Thank you @Floob (or is it PRB?) I understand now how it works. I can use the left and right to select WHICH save state slot I want, and proceed to save OR load.

BTW, Ive watched many of your "how to" videos on youtube... Not to be a lurker, but thank you for much of the help in the past that you dont know you did.

@Parzival youd have to code the emulators to access each core... so... good luck. Would be a cool idea

I ended up reinstalling to rebaseline for troubleshooting as when I first setup before with just the keyboard and single SNES controller I was able to play and use fine for a while without issue. I didn't mess with too many things really but trying controllers in multiple ports might have created the mess and well it's like a 5 minute process.

After reinstall I was able to setup the Logitec f710 fairly well with just a few test ROM for NES and SNES. I did the standard controller config but then went into the advanced global inputs and went through there also which cleaned up outstanding issues. Seems to be working solid so far.

Tested good and stuck when leaving games, switching between consoles and safe shutdown so looking solid so far

@meleu

Good to know, thanks!

this is (almost) awesome! I fear that something physical needs done to the cable, like wiring a positional wire, like RGB sometime needs horizontal and vertical timing, does it do it at any other similar resolutions, like 480i?

@meleu said in iPac 2 and USB SNES controllers, Player 1 issues:

@briankross Check it out:
https://github.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection

I think this will solve your problem. ;-)

Thank you!

For what I want to do, it looks like I just need to configure this once and I'm good to go. When I unplug and replug the SNES gamepads, the first one I plug in is Player 1, next is Player 2, and iPac 2 is always Player 3 which seems to be just fine for MAME and navigating Emulation Station.

Woo! Thanks again!

using "pixels" skin for emulationstation reduced lag to zero. thanks y'all.

If emulationstation has no black border (overscan settings) you cannot do anything now. Open /opt/retropie/configs/n64/mupen64plus.cfg. Find rice and GLideN64 sections. There should be antialiasing (MultiSampling) options which can be set to 0,2,4.

killer instinct does not work.

lr-fba-next: preliminary support, but not playable (AFAIK)
lr-mame2003: does not work because of a bug - https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/issues/38 - almost certainly would be too slow if it did work.
advamame: works, but about 0.5 fps.

n64 has a version you could try.

For those keeping an eye on this thread, so far so good! For about a week the Delta PMC-05V015W1AA seems to be working just fine, runs cool, the rPi runs fine, I'll test the analog audio output soon just to see if it's clean. It does have a soft high pitch harmonic tone, but inside any enclosure should be completely unheard.

You could download/setup a new RetroPie image at your friends and use SSH & SCP (under Windows Filezilla or WinSCP) to copy the roms folder over. Even easier would be to use the Samba file shares by enabling them in the config and then copy files over from \retropie\roms .

@BuZz Thanks Buzz. I just retried this at work :-) and it downloaded with the correct MD5. Thanks for the pointers.

@davej thanks for the advice and insights; I was unsure if exophase's code drove the GPU directly, it sounded like it did from descriptions, but benchmarks didn't confirm.
I do use the barrel distortion shader at times, but not often. Still soak-testing the Pi with the GPU overclock removed.

So did you just scrape your Arcade library and then add your own art? I like the way NES, SNES, and Genesis scraped with the box art, but Arcade was a cluster-F. I imagine scraping Arcade just for the data and taking screen shots to use as title art would be better.

@kaitlin4599 You must set a button to be the hotkey and then a button to be the menu toggle.
And to get the configs saved, you must to enable the "Save config on exit", but be prepared to face some confusing situations. The use of "save config on exit" is discouraged in RetroPie (my words, not an official statement).

Nevermind, I burnt it all down. On RetroPie 4.0 RC1 using NES30 Pro Firmware 1.7 Beta 5 and now the hotkeys are working. Thanks for the assist anyways...

@cromartian

If this is your only problem, it's probably a better idea to continue trying to troubleshoot it rather than move backwards. Can you past the contents of /etc/rc.local?