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Progress on the X-Arcade Tankstick driver?

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    Jerkamie
    last edited by 10 Nov 2016, 01:56

    It's been a few months since I posted the bug that won't let you exit games with the tank stick. I'm wondering has anyone made any progress with it yet?

    Thanks!

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      seank
      last edited by 10 Nov 2016, 14:44

      Hello,

      I am new to Retropie and I have a Tankstick + Trackball. I finally got some LR-Mame2003 roms and I had the problem of not being able to exit games as well. However, I discovered that pressing the player 1 button (start?) and the lower left pinball button (select?) that it will exit games. This is with the Tankstick set on mode 1 (standard PC keyboard?).

      However, I am still can't get the trackball to work properly.

      Don't know if this is of any help.

      -Sean

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        Jerkamie @seank
        last edited by 11 Nov 2016, 04:21

        @seank Ill try that. Are you using the drivers or as a keyboard keys?

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          seank
          last edited by 11 Nov 2016, 20:42

          I am not 100% sure how to answer that. I did not install any specific keyboard drivers. I have the Tankstick set to mode 1 which emulates a standard keyboard and mouse, as far as I know.

          -Sean

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            Jerkamie @seank
            last edited by 11 Nov 2016, 20:46

            @seank then you're not using the drivers for it that someone wrote. If you install the package you're trapped inside the game but it works much better.

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              mbolaris @Jerkamie
              last edited by 8 Dec 2016, 01:22

              @Jerkamie I got it working by modifying the xarcade2jstick driver so it doesn't do special handling to try and send a keyboard key for the select/player1(tab) or select/player2(esc) buttons. This allows the emulator button combos to work. For some reason, the keyboard codes sent from xarcade2jstick aren't working.

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                sauron_gorthaur @mbolaris
                last edited by 28 Dec 2016, 20:10

                @mbolaris Can you outline your modifications? Thanks..

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                  mbolaris @sauron_gorthaur
                  last edited by 2 Jan 2017, 16:21

                  @sauron_gorthaur
                  In main.c modify the special case handlers for KEY_1, KEY_3, KEY_2, and KEY_4 to be just like the other buttons. For example, replace the code between "case KEY_1:" and "break;" with: uinput_gpad_write(&uinp_gpads[0], BTN_START,
                  xarcdev.ev[ctr].value > 0, EV_KEY);

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                    BuZz administrators
                    last edited by 2 Jan 2017, 16:30

                    If this feature is more annoying than useful, I could fork the repository, and remove the functionality, or have it so it's enabled only if a certain parameter is passed.

                    To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                      mbolaris @BuZz
                      last edited by 2 Jan 2017, 17:14

                      @BuZz Sounds like a good idea.

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                        JeremyXgaming
                        last edited by 31 Aug 2017, 18:58

                        Exit problem fixed here: https://support.xgaming.com/support/solutions/articles/5000554993

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