Help with ZX Spectrum controls

[prl]

Hello,

I'm having a weird problem configuring the controller for ZX Spectrum in Retropie and any help would be appreciated.

A bit of context: I have a custom arcade bartop that I build with Retropie (4.4) on a Raspberry Pi (3 B+) and have a couple of joysticks with 6 buttons plus start and select for each player and a hotkey.

The A/B/X/Y/L/R buttons are configured as in this picture:

I have several emulators working (NES, SNES, Genesis, Arcade, NeoGeo, ...) and the controllers work fine in all the platforms, all the buttons are well configured (for example: A/B/C buttons in Genesis games are correctly mapped to 3 of my buttons).

The problem is with the controls in ZX Spectrum. I added Chuckie Egg to the system but the controls are not working correctly. The D-Pad doesn't (only the up direction is working and it moves the character to the left). Buttons B/X/Y in the layout above also move the character to the left and the A Button moves it to the right. I'm using Sinclair Joystick 1 as the User 1 Device Type.

I'm using lr-fuse as the emulator for the game. I already tried several things like re-configuring the input in Emulation Station, tried to rebind input controls in Retroarch and even reinstalling lr-fuse and using ZEsarUX.

This is the configuration in Retroarch:

I also went through the docs at https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/ZX-Spectrum but didn't get much help rom there. Any help would be great.

Thanks

[dudleydes]

@prl Chuckie Egg didn't support joysticks so a keyboard would normally be required. Fortunately it is possible to map a joypad to a keyboard in lr-fuse and ZEsarUX.

I have added a section in the wiki on how to do this in lr-fuse: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/ZX-Spectrum#joypad-to-keyboard-mapping

If you wish to map a joypad to a keyboard in ZEsarUX, then you can follow this guide: https://dosonthepi.blogspot.com/2015/08/mapping-keys-to-game-controllers-in.html

[prl]

@dudleydes thank you for your reply. I'll test this later on and give some feedback.

[A Former User]

To save, return to Quick menu -> Options in the RGUI and select Game-options file. This will save the mappings to a game specific options file.

That is from the linked help file, which is nice to know. I was using Retroarch's save-per-game, and it didn't save the mappings, now I know why.
BTW, Chuckie egg only needs mapping for the "Up" key - No.4 or No.9. Then use "Cursor Keys" for your User 1 Device Type, and select option 2, in-game, for cursor keys.

[prl]

@dudleydes that worked, thank you so much!