Xbox One Bluetooth Controller "start" and "select" buttons won't map in Daphne

RubiksTron

Just wondering if anyone else has had this issue. I cannot map the select and start buttons on my Xbox one Bluetooth controller to work for the coin and start on Daphne. I have used jstest to get the button numbers and adding 1 for the dapinput.ini file. Any buttons that I map to coin and start just pauses everything (i.e., the preview video of Dragon’s Lair). I haven’t gotten far enough to see if the joystick and other buttons work, since I cannot start the game.
A few points:

The controllers work with every other emulator and I have had no issues setting it up.
I am using model 1708 Xbox one Bluetooth controller, latest firmware, xpadneo driver, ertm disabled, etc.
I can successfully map the select and start buttons with every other emulator (mame, NES, etc.).
I can successfully map Daphne “coin” and “start” to other controllers, like my wired USB controller and even my Xbox 360 controllers.
The dapinput.ini is not being changed after running the emulator.

Things I have tried with no success:

Updating RetroPie to 4.8 and all packages.
Mapping other buttons to “coin” and “start”.
Any button I map to “quit” works. However, mapping that same button to “coin” or “start” does not work—it just pauses the video.
Reconfiguring the controller in EmulationStation, in hopes of forcing Daphne to remap somehow.
Removing all other controllers from my system to avoid potential confusion.
Uninstalling/reinstalling Daphne from source and/or binary.
Starting from scratch and creating a test image with no other emulators or controllers.

It seems the “coin” and “start” in Daphne do not like anything from the Xbox one controller. Did I find a bug, or am I missing something? Thank you all in advance for your help.

mitu

Post the dapinput.ini file, where the mapping is saved.

RubiksTron

# Daphne cutom keyboard and joystick mapping
#
# Each input is mapped to 2 keyboard keys and one joystick button.
# A joystick's first analog stick is also automatically mapped.
#
# The first two numbers are SDL keyboard codes (or 0 for "none")
# Find keyboard codes here:
# http://www.daphne-emu.com/mediawiki/index.php/KeyList
#
# The third number is the joystick button code (or 0 for "none")
# Since 0 is reserved for special meaning, joystick button 0 is identified
# as 1 here.  Button 1 is identified as 2, and so on.
# 
# Find the button you want to map by running:
# jstest /dev/input/js0

[KEYBOARD]
KEY_UP = 273 114 1
KEY_DOWN = 274 102 1
KEY_LEFT = 276 100 1
KEY_RIGHT = 275 103 1
KEY_BUTTON1 = 306 97 1
KEY_BUTTON2 = 308 115 2
KEY_BUTTON3 = 32 113 4
KEY_START1 = 49 0 12
KEY_START2 = 50 0 0
KEY_COIN1 = 53 0 11
KEY_COIN2 = 54 0 0
KEY_SKILL1 = 304 119 0
KEY_SKILL2 = 122 105 0
KEY_SKILL3 = 120 107 0
KEY_SERVICE = 57 0 0
KEY_TEST = 283 0 0
KEY_RESET = 284 0 0
KEY_SCREENSHOT = 293 0 0
KEY_QUIT = 27 113 15
END

mitu

@RubiksTron said in Xbox One Bluetooth Controller "start" and "select" buttons won't map in Daphne:

KEY_START1 = 49 0 12
KEY_START2 = 50 0 0
KEY_COIN1 = 53 0 11
KEY_COIN2 = 54 0 0

I don't have a similar gamepad to check, but this looks like it's mapping buttons 11 and 10 for Start/Coin. Can you post the .cfg file produced by mapping the controller in EmulationStation, you can find it in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads. Or check if the Start/Select button numbers are the same in the file.

RubiksTron

@mitu thank you for your help. Here is the cfg file:

input_device = "Xbox Wireless Controller"
input_driver = "udev"
input_enable_hotkey_btn = "10"
input_r3_btn = "14"
input_r_y_minus_axis = "-3"
input_l_btn = "6"
input_load_state_btn = "6"
input_r_y_plus_axis = "+3"
input_up_btn = "h0up"
input_up_btn_label = "D-Pad Up"
input_left_btn = "h0left"
input_left_btn_label = "D-Pad Left"
input_state_slot_decrease_btn = "h0left"
input_select_btn = "10"
input_r2_axis = "+4"
input_r_x_minus_axis = "-2"
input_l_y_plus_axis = "+1"
input_l_y_plus_axis_label = "Left Analog Y+"
input_l_x_plus_axis = "+0"
input_l_x_plus_axis_label = "Left Analog X+"
input_right_btn = "h0right"
input_right_btn_label = "D-Pad Right"
input_state_slot_increase_btn = "h0right"
input_l2_axis = "+5"
input_l_x_minus_axis = "-0"
input_l_x_minus_axis_label = "Left Analog X-"
input_r_x_plus_axis = "+2"
input_l3_btn = "13"
input_r_btn = "7"
input_save_state_btn = "7"
input_l_y_minus_axis = "-1"
input_l_y_minus_axis_label = "Left Analog Y-"
input_y_btn = "4"
input_x_btn = "3"
input_x_btn_label = "Y"
input_menu_toggle_btn = "3"
input_down_btn = "h0down"
input_down_btn_label = "D-Pad Down"
input_start_btn = "11"
input_exit_emulator_btn = "11"
input_b_btn = "1"
input_reset_btn = "1"
input_a_btn = "0"

mitu

Based on the joypad config file, the dapinput.ini mappings are correct. Not sure why they won't work in-game though.

DirtBagXon

@RubiksTron

Bit of a guess here, but you don't have KEY_PAUSE defined in your dapinput.ini file. Maybe it's picking up some weird SDL input ?!?

Try disabling the pause key by adding the following to the dapinput.ini file.

KEY_PAUSE = 0 0 0

According to the source code that key is available in the original Daphne.

RubiksTron

@DirtBagXon unfortunately adding that pause line didn't work, the start and select still pause. Thanks for the suggestion.

RubiksTron

Follow-up: I did some more digging and read somewhere on the xpadneo github that they have a hypseus module in the code. I never thought to try hypseus, I guess I had it stuck in my mind that Daphne was "the" laserdisc emulator. I installed hypseus and it works with the Xbone controller. I only had to configure the select and start buttons. The exit as configured in ES (start + select) works as well. In Daphne the start+select to exit didn't work and I had to configure another button.

Big props to @DirtBagXon, I found your github and followed the instructions: https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus-singe. Thank you thank you thank you.

I hope this helps anyone else stumbling into this issue. I like my xbone controllers and am trying to get away from Xbox 360 controllers + dongle.

TLDR: Xbox One controllers will not work with Daphne. Use hypseus.