getting spinner to work in Retropie

UDb23

Also, have you checked the wiki:https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Spinners,-Trackballs,-Lightguns,-and-other-Mouse-Devices

sdepace

@UDb23 Yes I read that but it still didn't help. I'm running retropie 4.4 with a raspberry pi 3 and Emulation Station. The spinner is by thunderstick and uses a USB board. I tested tempest and it doesn't work either. When I test in the terminal with cat, I get a response, so its working. When I load a game and hit the tab key to adjust "input this game", it doesn't see it. If I go into retroarch, I hit the bind input 1 and changed it to mouse 1 but then I still can't change the player 1 paddle left or right to the spinner....it doesn't see it.

I hope this makes sense as I'm fairly new to retropie.

Thanks

UDb23

@sdepace
did you already tried checking "retroarch-core-options” conf file in the Retroarch directory ?
It should have this setting:
mame_mouse_enable = “enabled”

sdepace

@UDb23 I just checked and yes its there mame_current_mouse_enable = "enabled"

sdepace

@sdepace do I need anything in the retroarch.cfg other than
input_player1_joypad_index = "0"
input_libretro_device_p1 = "1"
input_player1_analog_dpad_mode = "0"
input_player1_mouse_index = "2"

sdepace

@sdepace still testing and I also see when I do the cat test the spinner shows up as Mouse 1. When I do the advmame 1.4 the output is mouse 2. is this normal?

mitu

@sdepace What other devices you have connected ? If you run cat /proc/bus/input/devices, what's the output ?

sdepace

@mitu OK I finally figured it out. The spinner I bought has some dip switches that needed to be set. Without that the numbers were too small to work on retropie. Thanks for your help.

mitu

@sdepace I actually didn't do anything :), glad you got it sorted out.
Is this the spinner you have ?

UDb23

@sdepace happy to hear you solved.

sdepace

@mitu yes