I have done a lot of updates so it's now running the latest versions of everything (I hope) and now the JStest function is working ok. For some reason it's always showing 3 things connected js0 js1 and js2 but I only have 1 controller connected at the moment which is a snes style 2 axis 8 button but for some reason it shows 10 buttons on the jstest.

It's just becoming an absolute nightmare to do anything, the controller maps fine in the emulation station menu so I can navigate round there but as soon as I go into a game the controller is completely unresponsive.

I have gone into the retroarch setting in the retropie menu and gone into the input section and setup the snes controller in there so the buttons are assigned correctly to which I can then navigate retroarch fine. I have made sure I saved the settings in there aswell but still no luck in the game.

I found out I can access some files by going onto my laptop and typing in \retropie which somehow gets me into lots of files to do with emulations station and from there I can go into the relevant emulators for each console then right click and edit with notepad++ and see various information with regards to buttons and the relevant number they are associated with (which I can get from the jstest) but all seems good there but it does say something about an xbox360 controller can this be the issue??

Thabks

Thanks herb, I did read that part but failed to see where it said anything about atari5200 not being installed. I guess I assumed it was since both atari 2600 and 7800 were, and it wasn't mentioned in https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Atari-800-and-5200

Hey, this worked perfect!
My controllers are working again, thank you!

Yea ;) I'd like to see that. I'll have to get me a controller with rumble though, unless I can mod mine somehow.

@ianm1973 hi,
I don't know why your mame ROMs would be running too fast, but, assuming you are using a libretrto mame core, you can check the actual frame rate from within the rgui menu (please see above for details on accessing the frame-rate option).

@bennymcg

The 'Generic 104-key PC' would likely be the best model setting. Also, the keyboard layout settings are all set to UK by default, so if you need anything else, select 'Other'. It appears as though the Rii i8 has an AltGr key on the right, so 'Right Alt (AltGr)' is applicable to you as well.

Hi BuZz. Were you able to check the issue already? Thanks in advance!

@jonfitt I went into drivers in the setup menu and installed/updated xpad. Actually, I don't know if I technically installed it or updated it.

I did the install/update right after a fresh install. I did not fiddle with Xboxdrv in the same instance.

@mediamogul I suppose that's true. Doesn't hurt to reformat with sdformatter if the initial image doesn't work.

No problem, I've had several of them derp out in the past as well. Glad you got it sorted :)

@Concat I've tried the trinary flag, but didn't have any effect either.

For the buttons, just load dosbox without a game. Map something like "T" to your A button, and see if you can type a T with the button. No idea why a button mapping wont work. Thats the easiest thing to do in this tool...

I'll try that later.
Here's another thing I was thinking about trying out though.

• min – The reported minimum value on the axis. Used for determining trigger levels. • max – The reported maximum value on the axis. Used for determining trigger levels

Except I'm not 100% sure how to implement it, but I was thinking something likes this...
Assuming my thumbsticks have 'idle' axis values ranging between 0-2000 and either -32767 or 32767 when hold to the max in a direction, then defining a min/max value close to the max value should work? (in theory)

# so for movement to the left axis vendor=0x045e product=0x028e src=2 target=mouse axis=0 min=-30000 max=-32767 # movement to the right axis vendor=0x045e product=0x028e src=2 target=mouse axis=0 min=30000 max=32767 # up movement axis vendor=0x045e product=0x028e src=3 target=mouse axis=1 min=-30000 max=-32767 # down movement axis vendor=0x045e product=0x028e src=3 target=mouse axis=1 min=30000 max=32767

EDIT: Well that seemed to have fixed the deadzone issues, but besides that nothing is working like it should.
Currently the mouse cursor is fixed top left and won't move except for when I push the thumbstick all the way to the left, then it moves to the bottom left in a flash and when I release the thumb it moves back to top left.
It seems to me like something is messed up when it comes to button/axes values, and it's not registering the values as presented by jstest
Really weird because DOSBOX's internal mapper works perfectly fine, if only it had the possibility of mapping the mousekeys.

I've also tested running just dosbox with the Y button mapped to the letter y but it's not responding.

Ps: the daphne ported i metioned https://github.com/DavidGriffith/daphne
As for fs-uae i will give amiga a dedicated sd card (my 32gb card will not support erverything) with amibian, but great to see fs-uae

@Chillimonster said in [Lr-mame2003 trackball issues. Not always seen](/forum/topic/3876/lr-

When the trackball is not recognised i get no response from the cat / dev/input/mice command,and when it is detected i get the usual character output.

Going to try re-imaging the card incase i've messed something up, and have another play later.

Not a bad thing to try, but if this was image corruption it wouldn't be changing. I wonder if maybe the USB connection is intermittent or perhaps draining the power to a point where it stops working. Because the 'test' revealed that when it's not working, linux itself isn't even getting the inputs. I've seen similar issues when plugging in too many devices without a good power supply, or not using a powered USB hub.

So I believe the issue is that emulationstation won't allow the video from mplayer to play over it. I've tried adding --ontop to the line in order to have it play over emulationstation, but that program always seems to be over mplayer, and I can only hear the audio of the video after emulationstation starts.

@tehswiftone Ah, gotcha.

Sounds similar to the issue I had before I configured my controller for Dreamcast.

Scroll to the bottom: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Dreamcast

@BuZz git is something I know very little about, but I think I figured out how to get the versioning. Thanks :)

@BuZz Thanks. It was worth a shot.

I didn't see anything on Attract-Mode's documentation about it there either. :(

Thank you for the help, roms launch now after following directions.