I am talking into the void at this point on this thread but I did find a solution for this for anyone searching the interweb in the future like I was. I end arounded this "joystick 1" problem with hardware. I purchased an additional USB controller board ($10) and configured it as well. Once I determined which board advmame assigned to J1 I just moved the joystick wiring to the other board that was assigned J3 then remapped in the Tab menu to those controls. I now technically have 3 controllers but only 2 actual functional controllers on the arcade control panel itself. I would guess there is a software way to fix this but it was way easier to eat $10 and save the time and hassle of troubleshooting and hours of reading config files with no actual knowledge :)

@mitu Ah, that scuppers those plans then. I think I'll give this up as a failed experiment. I did manage to get Kodi to launch from my green button by importing psutil and check_output and changing the code to

espid = int(check_output(["pidof","-s","emulationstation"])) es = psutil.Process(espid) es.suspend() Kodi = subprocess.Popen("/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/Kodi.sh") Kodi.wait es.resume()

But then the script would no longer start from my crontab on boot so not really usable.

Take a look at

demonstrating how to map 2 4way joysticks to tank controls - including the Atari Battle zone. IMHO as long as you simulate 2 joysticks, you'll be able to map them in MAME to the tank controls.

@mitu That worked !!! 3 days that took and sleepless nights lol . Here's some code for people who may have the same problem

Edit Autostart.sh

emulationstation --resolution W H --windowed --screenoffset X Y

Thanks a lot !

Thanks for the replies and the suggestions.

As it seems, this capability is not difficult coding-wise, it just hasn't been implemented (yet).
Until then, the easiest way still seems to load disks from the menu, it just takes a few seconds anyway :-)

@robca There's no automated 'translator' from the RA's auto-config file to AdvMame's configuration syntax. However, MAME 2003(-plus) have support for vector games - you should give them a try.

I got the Scratch 2 Editor to work on RetroPie, but I cannot get it to close. I don't see a quit command in Scratch 2, and I cannot find any information about how to close the Matchbox window manager either. Maybe Scratch 3 will work better when they port it to the Pi. I put it on RetroPie-Extras-unstable because of not being able to exit. https://github.com/moonpi/RetroPie-Extra-unstable

@mitu
I don't have triggerhappy on a Playstation Classic, but it is linux and has a systemd.

There is with "Network Command interface" also "Command interface" support but I don't know how to use this, I guess maybe echo a command at the process?

@dwmreg you need to change the keyboard region. This setting is found under the raspi-config menu.

You can use jstest (from the command line) and test if the left 'command' works. Exit Emulationstation and run

jstest /dev/input/js0

use the gamepad and see if the actions are registered. Exit the test by pressing Ctrl + C. If the button/joystick works, then it's not a driver issue.

@Darksavior Nearly everyone has coding skills, to a degree. Even a limited ability can net some amazing results. Ever play around with even Game Genie? I started with BASIC, years ago. How simple things were then, heh. C++ can be pretty crazy, and I will probably never have a "full" fluent grasp of it. But, one day at a time, anyone can learn more and more...and achieve results.

@cyperghost Keyboard is now fixed official. You can set hotkey to {SELECT|B|Y|DISABLED} now

https://github.com/libretro/libretro-cap32/issues/61

Button Shortcuts for keycompo

{ RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_B, // if you change this position, update JOY_EVENT_ID_B { EVENT_WRITE, "CAT\n", NULL } }, { RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_Y, // if you change this position, update JOY_EVENT_ID_Y { EVENT_WRITE, "|CPM\n", NULL } }, { RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_A, { EVENT_WRITE, "RUN\"DISK\nRUN\"DISC\n", NULL } }, { RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_X, { EVENT_WRITE, "|TAPE\nRUN\"\n^" } }, { RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_START, { EVENT_VKEYB, "VKEYB\n", NULL } }, { RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_UP, { EVENT_WRITE, "1\nY\n", "PRESSED => 1/Y" } }, { RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_DOWN, { EVENT_WRITE, "2\nN\n", "PRESSED => 2/N" } }, { RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_LEFT, { EVENT_WRITE, "4\nS\n", "PRESSED => 4/S" } }, { RETRO_DEVICE_ID_JOYPAD_RIGHT, { EVENT_WRITE, "3\nJ\n", "PRESSED => 3/J" } },

Thanks that made it work

@mitu No, not yet but if I have any questions I’m what to do or how to set it up I’ll make sure to ask

@kok00 don't know anything about the script but for the record there are some non working parents that are required to make clones work so if you delete them they may break more games depending on the type of rom set you have.

@Deltax5 said in retropi doesn't show video but sound works?:

Looking thru the folders using WinSCP i noticed skyscraper is located at /opt/retropie/configs/all/skyscraper/
Do i just copy the the cache folder and copy it to a new image when the time comes? will that work so i don't need to scrap them. Or do i put it in the import folder? It will save time then rescraping everything.

You should really read the docs on Skyscraper - especially the part about the cache.

@mitu Cool !! Now that works. Thank you

@Creteloc

if there is no software from the manufacturer to change this (which i doubt for a cheap encoder like this), you might aswell give up, the microswitches you have, simply cannot physically handle what you want them to do.

however, if this is just a matter of the leds being too bright, you could just add some resistors to lower the brightness of the leds.

Thank you, friend! I'm sorry for the mix up and appreciate your time and response. I'll head that way now. Thank you again. Hopefully I can get this figured out soon! :)