AdvMAME not detecting controller

mitu

@leitmotiv Advmame has a joystick/gamepad test utility - advj - can you try running it from the command line to see if it detects the gamepad ? Run it with /opt/retropie/emulators/advmame/bin/advj.

leitmotiv

running it right now... says Joy 0 and Joy 1 is PS3 controller, but it's still working...

leitmotiv

How long is this supposed to take? Seems like it's stalling out for a simple test.

mitu

@leitmotiv I think it doesn't exit by itself, you have to interrupt it - press CTRL+C.

sirhenrythe5th

I used PS3 Controllers for AdvanceMame for three years and had no problems

But i miss a step here.
Before you can map the buttons in "input/general" you have to config the buttons for the TAB-MENUE itself.
You do that in "input/general/Interface" by using a keyboard and set the actions to pad-buttons.
There you have to set the buttons for all directions and at least for Button "A" to use the Joystick within the TAB-Menue.

I recommend to set analog + digital Inputs for directions, AdvanceMame supports multi-buttons for one action.
So you can decide per game how you want to control it

leitmotiv

All right so...

I went into input/general/interface. I tried editing controls for UI interface as well as P1 and P2 controls. None of it worked. It would detect the controller in that menu only. But not with the game. Also, it would not detect the right D-pad button in UI or either of the P1 or P2 controls.

Also, this is with it still set to device_joystick sdl

stoney66

I assume you have two PS3 controllers connected via USB then? Have you tried just 1 connected if so?

leitmotiv

Nope, just the one. Though I really should have another.

stoney66

lol I hear ya. I'm not much help here I guess, I have a few different controllers and they all have worked fine with advmame 1.4 and 3.8/9. Did you also try using 1.4 when launching a rom instead of 3.9?

leitmotiv

I didn't. The specific game I was booting up doesn't work with any other core except AdvMAME .94

stoney66

ah ok.. I've never used .94 only 1.4 and 3.9 which both worked great. Which game are you trying?

leitmotiv

The .94 game was Exvania. I will try the other cores here in a bit.

stoney66

ok what I have for Exvania doesn't work with 3.9, but does with 1.4 and joystick works fine. Have you tried other roms and other cores like 3.9 to see. My goto is always to test Galaga :)

leitmotiv

Yeah I just tried Exvania on 1.4 again and didn't boot. I'm running the World rom. I just tried Crackdown on 3.9. Setup the controls. No difference. Except it does detect the Right D-pad button. So that must be connected to .94.

stoney66

I used world as well, 106 romset.

leitmotiv

Anyone else got any help for this?

leitmotiv

Where do I go from here? Do I repost later on? Take it to another forum?

mitu

@leitmotiv You can use the same topic, it's up to you if you want to use another forum or not - you might try the AdvanceMAME forums.