My controller has controls for 2 players, plus extra buttons in a separate location labeled A, B, A2, B2. There's also a section with 10 other buttons, with some labeled Select (generally the hot key, too), Coin One, Coin Two, Player 1, Player 2, Menu, Pause, and Exit.

What I was thinking was that it would be nice to use the extra four A, B, A2, B2 buttons for the controls in EmulationStation. Menu could replace Select-Player1 and pull up that menu, and Exit, of course, would drop into the command line (or maybe reboot).

From what you're saying, it sounds like I can do this by manually editing es_input.cfg - as long as someone doesn't come along and clobber that config with a new one. (But, of course, I'd keep a backup - and when I have people over, I put it in Kiosk or Kid Mode.) Then I can also edit retroarch.cfg separately for the emulators (other than ones like AdvMame, that use their own configuration file).

Am I right about this? (I want to make sure I'm clear and understand what you're saying.)

I got some controls working with AdvMame. I need to go through and get a few pages on the AdvMame configuration settings, since I wasn't sure what to use to specify controls for the trackball or spinner. I also had a problem because my "Coin One" button pauses the game no matter what. This leads to funky issues. For instance, on one game, I kept trying to put in a coin by pressing that button and it just paused the game. On another game, it would add a coin to the count, but also pause the game until I pressed it again.

I also found that AdvMame can read a keyboard as if it's two controllers. Since I can change my controller from "B Input Mode" to "Keyboard Mode" (I'm guessing "B" means "Button," but I don't know.) From what I can see, just reading the TAB menu on AdvMame, I might have success using Keyboard mode and letting the keyboard act like two controllers.

That also raises another question I'm going to have to spend time searching for: Mame-Libretro(2003) vs. AdvMame. Do I keep both on the system? I'm not sure if they'll both work consistently with the controller in one mode. AdvMame seems to work better, including using sound sample files easily, and the ROM set that works with AdvMame has more games in it. But that's a whole other issue to explore. Ideally I'd like to get my controller working in Keyboard and B Mode in both AdvMame and Mame-Libretro, but if I can get it to do everything in one form, I'll call it a day.

@_robert1243 Are you a spam bot ? None of your replies have anything RetroPie related or offer any substantial insight into the topics opened by the users.

@mitu Thanks, that works

To clarify, I am using the wminput method.

I am seriously really really stupid. Never mind... :)

@gomisensei said in AdvMame - Looks Pretty, Does Nothing:

@Tango If you set up button1 in input(general) it will work for all games that use the first button. Same with each button, digital axis, analog axis etc that you setup.

You can also set up single unique-per-rom inputs under Inputs(this game) that will not carry over, but will overwrite the general inputs for the rom you set it up in only (not sure about clones).

Cool! Sounds like just what I want.

Thank you.

@mijenix said in Raspberry Pi Zero W & 2 PS3 controller?:

Dear Community

I try to pair a 2nd PS3 controller to my Raspberry Pi Zero W.
But it doesn't work.

Hardware: Raspberry Pi Zero W
Bluetooth: onboad BT
RetroPie: 4.5.15
Driver: sixaxis

I was able to successfully pair 1 controller, but I cannot pair a 2nd one.
The 2nd controller works if I connect it via USB, so the controller should be fine
(I tried 3 other controllers, for all the same behavior)

How can I pair more than 1 PS3 controller, preferably with the onboad BT controller.

Thank a lot and cheers!

PS: If I missed a documentation for that specific problem I am find with a pointer to the RTFM ;)

@BuZz thanks. I decided to start from scratch with the latest. Mark this as solved.

@cyperghost
ok I understand, Thanks for all :)

Got it working under Mame-lr2003, but not sure why. See the ending of this thread for my post about it.

@dankcushions that worked perfectly! thank you for the assistance.

@Lummox-JR So if you're not wanting the Bluetooth USB either, I'd recommend checking this out :

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Sound-Issues#using-a-usb-audio-device

@AGMspokesman If you have a question, just open a new topic - don't necro-post on 2 years old ones.

@Striderx99 hi bro. How did you go about adding WCW here comes the bang? The files I find are for project 64 with a full conversion kit but can't seem to find the basic rom. Any help or guide you can give me would be most helpful. Thanks

It doesn't.

Atari 5200 controllers aren't implemented at all. There is no analog input into the system.
If you use something with analog, it's converted to digital first, which is why so many games don't work properly (Super Breakout, Missile Command, etc)

Basically it's an Atari 800 emulator (Which had digital 2600-style joysticks and a keyboard) with some 5200 stuff slapped-on.

If you have a keyboard attached, Numbers work from the keyboard. For instance, LEO in countermeasure is 123.

Please add more info about your system, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
Changes in RetroArch's configuration are not saved automatically, you need to either save a configuration override (for the Core used or for the Game) or - if you want to change an option globally - use the RetroArch entry in the RetroPie system and save explicitly the configuration.

Script works and i havent black videos. Thanks!!