Remapping buttons for runcommand.sh

[ericsnis]

Is there a way to remap the buttons used for runcommand without messing up the mapping for games?

I bought a Microcenter/Atari Ultimate dual arcade fight stick with the RPI 3 and a bunch of old Atari roms. The RetroPie image was rather old, so I copied the roms over to a fresh copy of Retropie 4.7.1. I also copied over es_input.cfg to the ~/.emulationstation folder.

I ran into a problem with runcommand, I get trapped in the menu unless I have a keyboard plugged in to push enter. I can get into the runcommand menu by pressing left on the player 1 joystick which is weird. The joystick does navigate up and down as expected, I just can't do anything besides move up and down. In EmulationStation navigation works fine.

The controller it comes with is a Xin-Mo USB 2 player adapter. I did add the string needed for two players to /boot/cmdline.txt as described in Xin-Mo - RetroPie Docs

I ran jstest /dev/input/js0 which gives me this.

es_input.cfg

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<inputList>
        <inputConfig type="joystick" deviceName="xin-mo.com Xinmotek Controller" deviceGUID="03000000c0160000e105000010$
                <input name="a" type="button" id="1" value="1" />
                <input name="b" type="button" id="2" value="1" />
                <input name="down" type="axis" id="1" value="1" />
                <input name="hotkeyenable" type="button" id="9" value="1" />
                <input name="left" type="axis" id="0" value="-1" />
                <input name="leftshoulder" type="button" id="3" value="1" />
                <input name="right" type="axis" id="0" value="1" />
                <input name="rightshoulder" type="button" id="4" value="1" />
                <input name="select" type="button" id="9" value="1" />
                <input name="start" type="button" id="8" value="1" />
                <input name="up" type="axis" id="1" value="-1" />
                <input name="x" type="button" id="5" value="1" />
                <input name="y" type="button" id="0" value="1" />
        </inputConfig>
</inputList>

Pi Model: 3B+
Power Supply used: Generic 3x 2.4A USB + 3Amp USC-C, 10A total
RetroPie Version: 4.7.1
Built From: SD Image on RetroPie website
USB Devices connected: USB Keyboard as needed, Xin-Mo USB adapter
Controller used: Xin-Mo two player

[mitu]

@ericsnis said in Remapping buttons for runcommand.sh:

Is there a way to remap the buttons used for runcommand without messing up the mapping for games?

runcommand will use the RetroArch configuration file of the gamepad. If you didn't generate one - it's automatically done when you configure the input in EmulationStation - it doesn't which buttons are A/B to enable them in the launch menu.
Since you copied the ES configuration for input, and didn't run the input mapping dialogue, the RetroArch configuration file hasn't been generated - hence the missing mapping in the launch menu of Runcommand.