Problem with 1 legit ps3 controller and not another

Efriim

@edmaul69
Do you got the xboxdrv driver enabled, this thing will create virtual controllers. But usually it doesn't make 6 controllers.

edmaul69

@Efriim no I legitimately have 7 controllers hooked up including one ps3 controller. However one always will connect as controller 2 and one will connect as controller 6. But only one ps3 controller at a time. And no i dont have xboxdrv on. My biggest concern is why one of them has screwed up controls only in emulationstation. And why it doesnt work wired in emulationstation. So odd.

Efriim

@edmaul69
Search this file for the matching inconsistencies
\configs\all\emulationstation\es_input.cfg

And try evtest on the /dev/input/event#s for the matching device.

If neither reflect any of the problems, then I would guess it is because there too many controllers for ES binary to parse.

edmaul69

@Efriim ok i just fixed it. Somehow i had an older es_input.cfg that had a lot of controllers i had deleted out before a while back when i found out it had an entry limitation. I never thought about it because it never would accept a controllers settings before if i hit the limit. This one did. But it made it wonky. So i removed all the old no longer owned controllers i had in it and re-set this one up in emulationstation and it is fine. Thanks for reminding me of its limitations even if it wasnt actually the controllers i had hooked up that was the issue.

edmaul69

@Efriim so a question. All ps3 controllers now have their own config entry in emulationstation with separate long as hell guid numbers. For my c64 mini i need to know the guid to set up controllers that arent already configured to manually set one up. Do you know a command i can type to find out a guid #?

edmaul69

@Efriim oh and thank you for the help.

Efriim

@edmaul69
https://askubuntu.com/questions/366994/how-to-identify-game-controller-for-sdl2-in-ubuntu
the second answer obviously.

mitu

@edmaul69 You can re-use the GUID ES assigns in the es_config.cfg - it's per controller model. There's a whole list you can compare and find your controller at https://github.com/gabomdq/SDL_GameControllerDB/blob/master/gamecontrollerdb.txt.

edmaul69

@mitu the problem with the es guid is its only on my ps3 controllers. I will look at all this info to figure out how to get a guid for my dolphinbar. Thanks guys.

Efriim

@edmaul69
~~To take the fun out of what was posted, here is the~~ executable binary that was made from parts of the SDL code. It is explained better in the link.

edmaul69

@Efriim thanks.

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edmaul69

@Efriim ok there is something im not getting. The second answer says compile with

gcc -o sdl2-joystick sdl2-joystick.c `pkg-config ––libs ––cflags sdl2`

Then it says save following as sdl2-joystick.c..... So i stuck this in /home/pi and compiled. Now what?

Efriim

@edmaul69
Save the file sdl2-joystick.c with the c code copied to it. Then compile it with gcc.

edmaul69

@Efriim i did that. I dont know what to do after that to get the guid.

Efriim

@edmaul69
After the code is compiled; with a controller plugged in; run the executable ./sdl2-joystick.

If there is no controller plugged in there won't be any output

edmaul69

@Efriim luckily i dont have to run anything. i found out all the controllers you have plugged in shows their guid in the es_input.cfg file. thanks for all the help.

Efriim

@edmaul69
the output looks like this

050000004c0500006802000000810000 "Sony PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller" axes:6 buttons:17 hats:0 balls:0

where the first segment is the GUID

edmaul69

@Efriim so running ./sdl-joystick i come up with this for the dolphinbar:

03000000790000000318000011010000 "HJZ Mayflash Wiimote PC Adapter" axes:4 button                                                                                                             s:12 hats:1 balls:0

so this and another mayflash wii adapter i have when i add them to the gamecontrollerdb.txt, the hats dont work. i set the hats exactly like other hats in the file. not sure if i am doing something wrong. i removed the second analog stick do to the c64 mini emulator duplicating the sticks.

03000000790000000318000011010000,HJZ Mayflash Wiimote PC Adapter,a:b2,b:b3,back:b8,dpdown:h0.4,dpleft:h0.8,dpright:h0.2,dpup:h0.1,leftshoulder:b4,lefttrigger:b6,leftx:a0,lefty:a1,rightshoulder:b5,righttrigger:b7,start:b9,x:b0,y:b1,guide:b11,platform:Linux,