Arcade control panel mapping questions

SammyLJ

added a bunch of games and tested Player 2 down is "f" and during game play it brings up the runcommand screen. let go of down and it goes back to the game.

caver01

@sammylj no that cannot be Runcommand. Maybe retroarch GUI menu? Check your retroarch.cfg to see if f is mapped to something.

caver01

@sammylj said in Arcade control panel mapping questions:

so moving forward....
when i'm in emulation station
B = Back
A = Launch
START = menu
SELECT = Options

but 'B' is a player 4 button, 'a' is a player 2 button etc
where do I go to configure those?

You are confusing a gamepad A and B with keyboard keys. In Emulation Station, these refer to the player1 gamepad buttons.

Is there any setup to a trackball or is it straight usb plug in and go?

Read this documentation. There is a whole section I wrote about spinners and trackballs. It is not hard to setup. Mostly plug and play, some configuration.

I put a trackball, aim left and aim right buttons just above the trackball for Goldentee. They are 4sw5 and 4sw6. Because those are for 1 game only, I can edit those in the in game control menu.

SammyLJ

@caver01 so when in game, if I hold down on player 2(which is f) the screen goes black and the grey box comes up in the middle. It says...

Launching avps (lr-mame2003) ...
Press a button to configure
Errors are logged to /dev/shm/runcommand.log

The only thing I see mapped to f isn't active
#Toggles fullscreen.
#input_toggle_fullscreen = f

should I send you my cfg file so you can look at it, maybe i'm missing something

SammyLJ

@caver01 so if I want to re route the buttons in emulation station is it under the main menu, configure input? The would change the emulation sation buttons but not the in game. right...

caver01

@sammylj
correct.

caver01

@sammylj said in Arcade control panel mapping questions:

@caver01 so when in game, if I hold down on player 2(which is f) the screen goes black and the grey box comes up in the middle. It says...

Launching avps (lr-mame2003) ...
Press a button to configure
Errors are logged to /dev/shm/runcommand.log

The only thing I see mapped to f isn't active
#Toggles fullscreen.
#input_toggle_fullscreen = f

should I send you my cfg file so you can look at it, maybe i'm missing something

I am not familiar with this coming up in-game. Runcommand dialog appears briefly as you launch a game from Emulation Station.

SammyLJ

@caver01 right so when press down it comes up or hold down, it stays up

SammyLJ

@caver01 so I changed the emulation station buttons and it changed the in game buttons as well....

SammyLJ

ok wait a minute
this whole time I have been changing /all/retroarch.cfg
should I have been changing /mamelibretro/retroarch.cfg

SammyLJ

so I got everything to work in game. I even figured out how to exit from the games. Escape alone doesn't seem to work but player 1 select(num5) is set to be the hot key and that plus escape backs out of games. That seems to be the only way I can get it to work. The runcommand no longer comes up when I hold player 2 down not sure what it did but I changed some stuff and it worked.

so we are basically all good and playing.
I wish I could change the emulation station menu buttons but when I do it changes everything.

caver01

@sammylj Hmm. That escape exit situation sounds like you still have hotkeys enabled. Scan through your retroarch.cfg for hotkey and set it to "nul" or comment out the setting. I am running with a dedicated exit (escape) and I don't need to press anything else, just my single exit button.