You can now play dual stick games on your barcade without being limited to MAME cores

[barbudreadmon]

I think barcade users will be very happy about this, see https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/7830

[mitu]

Thanks for bringing this up.
Some more details about this new feature are here - this new RetroArch input addition allows multiple controllers to be combined into one controller, so they can be used by one player. Before the change, multiple input devices could only be assigned to different players.

[barbudreadmon]

@mitu said in You can now play dual stick games on your barcade without being limited to MAME cores:

Before the change, multiple input devices could only be assigned to different players.

Yeah, and the only cores offering a mean to get around this limitation were the ones including their own remapping menu, which meant only the MAME ones afaik.

[dankcushions]

nice work! the closer we get to retiring the internal MAME menus the better. I wonder what functionality of theirs RetroArch has yet to implement now?

[mitu]

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[barbudreadmon]

@dankcushions said in You can now play dual stick games on your barcade without being limited to MAME cores:

the closer we get to retiring the internal MAME menus the better

Probably not gonna happen, some people never wanted to use retroarch's remapping, even in previously covered usages, so removing the MAME osd would cause a lot of drama.

@dankcushions said in You can now play dual stick games on your barcade without being limited to MAME cores:

I wonder what functionality of theirs RetroArch has yet to implement now?

I guess some mean to declare optional buttons without having to assign them somewhere at game's launch, as i explained in https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/11273

[janderclander14]

Is this feature available in the current version of Retropie/retroarch? I cannot find it in the control settings.

[barbudreadmon]

@janderclander14 said in You can now play dual stick games on your barcade without being limited to MAME cores:

Is this feature available in the current version of Retropie/retroarch? I cannot find it in the control settings.

Probably not, it seems retropie is using the RA 1.9.5 release, while this feature was added sometime between 1.9.5 and 1.9.6 releases

[mitu]

Retroarch has been updated in RetroPie to 1.9.7, @janderclander14 you can just update your retroarch package and it should install the new version.