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    Both joysticks controlling both players in P2 game

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      herts101
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      @mitu said in Both joysticks controlling both players in P2 game:

      Input Configuration

      Thank you. I've done a bit of testing as you suggested.

      The controller is detected in Emulationstation as Gamepad 1. There is only the option to enter controls for one of the joystick/button combos as far as I can see.

      I've tried jstest as you suggested and got different numbers for the buttons, but both joysticks changed the 0 and 1 numbers.

      I'm sure this isn't a wiring issue as the joypad still works effectively with a previous pi as 2 seperate joysticks. I'm just upgrading the pi to a new fresh install on a fresh pi which has caused the problems.

      Any other ideas?

      Thank you again

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        herts101
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        Maybe worth saying that my controller.cfg file just seems to refer to 1 input as below.

        input_device = "xin-mo.com Xinmotek Controller"
        input_driver = "udev"
        input_l_btn = "4"
        input_load_state_btn = "4"
        input_start_btn = "8"
        input_exit_emulator_btn = "8"
        input_down_axis = "+1"
        input_r_btn = "5"
        input_save_state_btn = "5"
        input_right_axis = "+0"
        input_state_slot_increase_axis = "+0"
        input_select_btn = "9"
        input_left_axis = "-0"
        input_state_slot_decrease_axis = "-0"
        input_up_axis = "-1"
        input_a_btn = "0"
        input_b_btn = "1"
        input_reset_btn = "1"
        input_enable_hotkey_btn = "8"
        input_x_btn = "2"
        input_menu_toggle_btn = "2"
        input_y_btn = "3"

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          herts101
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          Solved it! The issue was with getting the Xin-Mo board to be detected as 2 gamepads. Thanks for the link on your reply @mitu

          I got a lot of help from this link also https://blog.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/how-to-get-xin-mo-dual-arcade-working-with-retropie-easy-guide/page/2/, but please be wary that it is old and the changing of the kernel is not required for a Pi 3. It will brick the pi.

          The process I used was as follows:

          Exit emulationstation (F4)
          Type lsusb to show the usbhid of your Xin-Mo controller. Note the usbhid of your controller. Mine was 0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040
          Type sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt
          Move to the end of the line, press space, then add usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040. If your usbhid is different then use your reference. Do not press enter or move to 2 lines in any way.
          Save the cmdline.txt file
          If you have already tried to configure a gamepad, then delete these files using sudo rm /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg
          Type: reboot

          Then, when emulationstation starts again you will first be able to configure gamepad 1 (pressing one of the P1 buttons), and then go back in and configure P2 by pressing one of the P2 buttons.

          Finally, you'll need to configure in retroarch. I had already done this so thought it was fine but the Select and Start P2 buttons didn't work. The solution was to reconfigure User 2 in retroarch, noting that there are now 2 Xin-Mo options under Device Index and User 2 needs to use the second one of these.

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            mitu Global Moderator @herts101
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            @herts101 said in Both joysticks controlling both players in P2 game:

            I got a lot of help from this link also https://blog.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/how-to-get-xin-mo-dual-arcade-working-with-retropie-easy-guide/page/2/, but please be wary that it is old and the changing of the kernel is not required for a Pi 3. It will brick the pi.

            That link is the source material for the page in the Docs that I mentioned, only the configuration (i.e. adding the usbquirks module option) is required with the current release. Glad you got it working.

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              herts101 @mitu
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              @mitu Thank you. Only remaining issue I can see is that the L1 and L2 buttons no longer page down the rom lists.

              Is there something else I need to do to update the config for this to work?

              Thank you so much for the help.

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                mitu Global Moderator @herts101
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                @herts101 Restart Emulationstation, should work.

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                  herts101
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                  I’ve restarted and still no luck. Any other ideas?

                  Thank you.

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                    mitu Global Moderator @herts101
                    last edited by

                    @herts101 I don't have any other ideas, I noticed that after first configuring the gamepad the L/R triggers don't work, but they work after ES restarts. Can you paste the output of the ~/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg file ? This is where Emulationstation stores the mapping for gamepads.

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                      herts101
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                      Thank you. File shows the following:

                      <?xml version="1.0"?>
                      <inputList>
                      <inputConfig type="joystick" deviceName="xin-mo.com Xinmotek Controller" deviceGUID="03000000c0160000e105000010010000">
                      <input name="a" type="button" id="0" value="1" />
                      <input name="b" type="button" id="1" value="1" />
                      <input name="down" type="axis" id="1" value="1" />
                      <input name="hotkeyenable" type="button" id="8" value="1" />
                      <input name="left" type="axis" id="0" value="-1" />
                      <input name="leftshoulder" type="button" id="4" value="1" />
                      <input name="right" type="axis" id="0" value="1" />
                      <input name="rightshoulder" type="button" id="5" value="1" />
                      <input name="select" type="button" id="8" value="1" />
                      <input name="start" type="button" id="9" value="1" />
                      <input name="up" type="axis" id="1" value="-1" />
                      <input name="x" type="button" id="2" value="1" />
                      <input name="y" type="button" id="3" value="1" />
                      </inputConfig>
                      </inputList>

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                        mitu Global Moderator @herts101
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                        @herts101 Hm, this looks a bit different than the one I have. Try replacing leftshoulder with pageup and rightshoulder with pagedownin the file.
                        My configuration file looks like this (it's a SNES type gamepad) and has the pageup/pagedown functionality using the shoulder buttons.

                        <inputConfig type="joystick" deviceName="USB,2-axis 8-button gamepad  " deviceGUID="03000000830500006020000010010000">
    <input name="pageup" type="button" id="4" value="1"/>
    <input name="start" type="button" id="7" value="1"/>
    <input name="down" type="axis" id="1" value="1"/>
    <input name="pagedown" type="button" id="5" value="1"/>
    <input name="right" type="axis" id="0" value="1"/>
    <input name="select" type="button" id="6" value="1"/>
    <input name="left" type="axis" id="0" value="-1"/>
    <input name="up" type="axis" id="1" value="-1"/>
    <input name="a" type="button" id="0" value="1"/>
    <input name="b" type="button" id="1" value="1"/>
    <input name="x" type="button" id="2" value="1"/>
    <input name="y" type="button" id="3" value="1"/>
  </inputConfig>
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                          herts101
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                          Brilliant. Words perfectly. Thank you once again.

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