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Coin and start buttons

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    Lowskiii
    last edited by 2 Jul 2021, 13:05

    Hello there fellow retro enthusiasts!

    I am making an arcade and was thinking about the buttons layout and have a couple questions before I start.

    So the first thing im wondering is wether I could use 1 coin button for both players and just connect the button to both the controllers. I am not sure if this would cause problems if you wanna play a single player game and you get coins for both players.

    The second thing is that I would also prefer only one start button, so far I was playing with a controller and the only moments I needed the start button functionality was to open the menu of the emulator itself. I however never played 2 player games before and I would guess you need both players start button to make that work properly.

    Then I want to use buttons to open the GMenu and exiting the game. I assume I need to manually edit this in the '/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/autoconfig' file because when configuring a controller it only allows you to set a hotkey which I don't wanna use for the arcade buttons. So the question is do I need to manually edit this in the generated file or is there another way?

    Thank you in advance!

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      dankcushions Global Moderator @Lowskiii
      last edited by dankcushions 7 Feb 2021, 14:42 2 Jul 2021, 13:42

      @lowskiii said in Coin and start buttons:

      Hello there fellow retro enthusiasts!

      I am making an arcade and was thinking about the buttons layout and have a couple questions before I start.

      So the first thing im wondering is wether I could use 1 coin button for both players and just connect the button to both the controllers. I am not sure if this would cause problems if you wanna play a single player game and you get coins for both players.

      i'm not sure if this works from a circuitry point of view, so i'll leave this to those familiar with wired buttons.

      The second thing is that I would also prefer only one start button, so far I was playing with a controller and the only moments I needed the start button functionality was to open the menu of the emulator itself. I however never played 2 player games before and I would guess you need both players start button to make that work properly.

      typically if you press player 2 start in an arcade game, it will get you into 2 player mode, which is almost certainly not what you want to do. paired with your dual-insert coin button, it would effectively mean you could never play a fighting game in single player mode, for example.

      Then I want to use buttons to open the GMenu and exiting the game. I assume I need to manually edit this in the '/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/autoconfig' file because when configuring a controller it only allows you to set a hotkey which I don't wanna use for the arcade buttons. So the question is do I need to manually edit this in the generated file or is there another way?

      yes you need to manually edit. if you don't set a hotkey when configuring it will default to your select button, so you need to remove it from the autoconfig/set it to nul.

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        Lowskiii @dankcushions
        last edited by 2 Jul 2021, 18:42

        @dankcushions Alright thank you already! I do know it's possible to wire it like that but im more worried to how some games will respond to it when trying to play solo. I guess I will keep it simple for my first build and just use 2 separate ones.

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