Progress on the X-Arcade Tankstick driver?

seank

Hello,

I am new to Retropie and I have a Tankstick + Trackball. I finally got some LR-Mame2003 roms and I had the problem of not being able to exit games as well. However, I discovered that pressing the player 1 button (start?) and the lower left pinball button (select?) that it will exit games. This is with the Tankstick set on mode 1 (standard PC keyboard?).

However, I am still can't get the trackball to work properly.

Don't know if this is of any help.

-Sean

Jerkamie

@seank Ill try that. Are you using the drivers or as a keyboard keys?

seank

I am not 100% sure how to answer that. I did not install any specific keyboard drivers. I have the Tankstick set to mode 1 which emulates a standard keyboard and mouse, as far as I know.

-Sean

Jerkamie

@seank then you're not using the drivers for it that someone wrote. If you install the package you're trapped inside the game but it works much better.

mbolaris

@Jerkamie I got it working by modifying the xarcade2jstick driver so it doesn't do special handling to try and send a keyboard key for the select/player1(tab) or select/player2(esc) buttons. This allows the emulator button combos to work. For some reason, the keyboard codes sent from xarcade2jstick aren't working.

sauron_gorthaur

@mbolaris Can you outline your modifications? Thanks..

mbolaris

@sauron_gorthaur
In main.c modify the special case handlers for KEY_1, KEY_3, KEY_2, and KEY_4 to be just like the other buttons. For example, replace the code between "case KEY_1:" and "break;" with: uinput_gpad_write(&uinp_gpads[0], BTN_START,
xarcdev.ev[ctr].value > 0, EV_KEY);

BuZz

If this feature is more annoying than useful, I could fork the repository, and remove the functionality, or have it so it's enabled only if a certain parameter is passed.

mbolaris

@BuZz Sounds like a good idea.

JeremyXgaming

Exit problem fixed here: https://support.xgaming.com/support/solutions/articles/5000554993