FBA Player 1 Start won't work

mitu

Please add more info about your system as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
Normally the Select button is automatically configured by RetroPie to be 'Coin Insert' and the Start is P1 Start - based on the Input configuration you entered in Emulationstation.

SolidHP

My setup as follows:

Pi Model or other hardware: RP 3B+
Power Supply used: Pi power supply
RetroPie Version Used 4.5.1
Built From: Pre made SD Image on RetroPie website
USB Devices connected: USB keyboard + Ultimarc I-PAC 2
Controller used: 2 Playera (with six buttons and 1 joystick per player)

SolidHP

@mitu Due to my 2 players arcade setup with Ultimarc I-PAC 2 USB keyboard encoder, I had to change the key map setting to suit my control setup. Before everything was working perfectly and all of a sudden Player 1 cannot start but gives me credit instead.

mitu

@SolidHP said in FBA Player 1 Start won't work:

Before everything was working perfectly and all of a sudden Player 1 cannot start but gives me credit instead.

That's most likely an input settings problem. How did you modify the configuration ?

SolidHP

@mitu Yes, that is what I am thinking also. I set my keys via the below three .cfg files

/opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg
/opt/retropie/configs/fba/retroarch.cfg
/opt/retropie/configs/neogeo/retroarch.cfg

The way how I set my Player 1 coin with "rshift" (it works)
The way how I set my Player 1 start with "enter" (it only gives credits and won't start the game)

input_player1_select = "rshift"
input_player1_select_axis = "nul"
input_player1_select_btn = "nul"
input_player1_select_mbtn = "nul"
input_player1_start = "enter"
input_player1_start_axis = "nul"
input_player1_start_btn = "nul"
input_player1_start_mbtn = "nul"

mitu

@SolidHP Can you leave out the btn settings and leave only

input_player1_select = "rshift"
input_player1_start = "enter"

and see if it makes a difference.

EDIT: Can you post also the complere /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg file ?

SolidHP

@Global-Moderators mitu Is there a way to upload the .cfg file? Content is too long to post here.... Also I removed the btn per your suggestion, didn't make any difference....

mitu

@SolidHP Hm, use pastebin.com for large walls of text.

SolidHP

Please take a look for me, really appreciate it

mitu

Looking at the config file, I see you have an error

input_player2_start = "\"

I haven't had a chance to try your config, I'm installing lr-fbneo to try it out. Do you have a sample game that you're trying to run and it doesn't work ?

mitu

OK, so I tested the classic Donkey Kong (dkong ROM) with lr-fbneo and it works fine with the default mapping added by RetroPie in the main retroarch.cfg:

input_player1_a = "a"
input_player1_b = "b"
input_player1_y = "y"
input_player1_x = "x"
input_player1_start = "enter"
input_player1_select = "rshift"
input_player1_l = "num1"
input_player1_r = "num2"
input_player1_left = "left"
input_player1_right = "right"
input_player1_up = "up"
input_player1_down = "down"

enter is set to start, does not add a coin, and rshift adds a coin.

I would suggest starting from the default retroarch.cfg distributed with RetroPie, which has far less options set, and work from there - leaving the systems' (neogeo and fba) as default, since the input configuration is done in the main configuration file.
You can find the default file in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg.rp-dist, you can copy it over the main retroarch.cfg.

SolidHP

@mitu Still don't work.... I did something as an experiment by replacing the FBA's retroarch.cfg with NeoGeo's retroarch.cfg, the Player 1, coin, Player 2 all working now (except other buttons) My guess is somewhere in the FBA's retroarch.cfg is wrong or something is overwriting the file?

SolidHP

@mitu Finally I got it working! I saw your post: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/19231/hardcoding-config-files/5 and followed your instruction on turning off save on exit and replace all the crap with default lines. Many thanks and I am so happy now! =)