So i figured it out by having retroarch save on exit it was messing up the emulater .cfg by tirning that off and adding
input_player1_joypad_index = "2"
input_player2_joypad_index = "3
To the emu cfg i got it running fine just put it above the include line still have to test on other emus but working fine on psx cheers for everyones help

@caver01 said in Mame 2 player turn based games, Controller issue:

The emulators are merely emulating the original design. In most cases, they aren't replacing or upgrading original functionality of arcade games.

Yeah I always looked at MAME as emulation and not simulation. I am sure someone has built a catver file that would fit the bill if a guy really wanted.

@Shakz

Thanks anyway. I fresh installed retropie onto another sd card and copied the reicast folder from it. Is there any way to copy it to my other install (the one with the issue) by simply replacing the folder with the fresh one? Tells me I dont have permission when I try to do it SFTP

Thank you. I feel stupid now. I see it is on the left hand menu.

Thanks again,
BC

I'm not sure why it drops out to emulationstation, but I do know that you need to open the system manager and delete all the corrupt saves in the vmu, for some reason the first time you start the emulator all the slots in the vmu are taken up with corrupt saves.

@citenx @82347
You should try what @edmaul69 suggested: use the http://github.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection

Why?
Because it uses SDL2 to get the joystck list. Maybe Linux thinks that a Bluetooth keyboard is a joystick, but SDL2 knows what exactly is a joystick.

You guys don't need to understand these details, if you don't care about it. Just try the joystick-selection and see if you are happy with it! ;-)

I am really the only person who uses it currently - but it is for maintainers - it is for building binary archives (the ones users install update from). A module is a single component - a section is a group of components.

@UDb23 Thanks, I will try one of those

@xpz , thank you for sharing your preference, I also use CRT-pi. That shader pack is insane. I am sure one day there will be an RPi that can do even more amazing things. RPi 3 isn't even a year old yet.

Cool. Yeah I got into that link too while waiting for a reply.

So: Parse Gamelists Only: If on, it will only read the roms you have scraped, so if you add any new roms it will not look for them unless you turn this back off. it is off by default.

Damn, I must have touched it without noticing it. Thanks again.

Maybe its the systemd. This is what I have currently:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=122066
"noauto,x-systemd.automount" in fstab options

i think it is very hard to setup... the in emulator remap doesnt work...
i use nitho arcade joystik .. works great for all but uae4all have a strange issue...
i read about uae4all2-rpi-chips-0_5 but restarts, https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/1972/uae4all2-joystick-recommendation/8 for me doesn't works...
i don't want the moon..only play by joystick ... is there a roking workaround ?
thks

upgrade retropie-setup and remove the emulators you don't want from the gui.

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/updating-retropie

Thanks @bizxaero good to know, will have a look.

@gomisensei it populates immediately after a load, but I guess only if the emulator
actually logs info to the console. what are you trying to load? please read this: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first