Couple of questions about config

[domodan]

So, I have at this point, one ControlBlock connected with 2 players connected to it. I'm experiencing a couple of oddities, however.

Let's start with this one. Players 1 and 2. When I play an SNES rom, for example, Player 1 controls Player 1 and Player 2 controls Player 2. Works great.

However, when I start an Arcade game...take Pac-Man for example. I put in two credits and hit start on Player 2 to start a 2 Player game. Player 1 controls player 1. When Player 1 dies and it is Player 2's turn, the Player 2 joystick doesn't control Player 2...Player 1 does.

Any ideas on how to get that mapped correctly?

[domodan]

After a little further testing, I can confirm that ALL the "Arcade" games will accept the Player 2 start button to start a 2 player game, but the only way to control either player is to use the joystick for player 1.

Also, how can I configure different inputs for different specific roms? IE: When I play "Donkey Kong" on the Arcade, the button that I have mapped to "X" is the jump button. I want it to be button A. Is there a way to adjust that setting for that one particular game? That will also be relevant for games like "Street Fighter II" where the buttons are specific to THAT game.

Thanks in advance.

[petrockblog]

The observation that the controls behave as expected in SNES games shows that the hardware is wired correctly and the driver is working properly :-)

Which arcade emulator are you using at the moment? I would need to take a look into that specific emulator to try and find an answer for our questions.

[domodan]

@petrockblog said in Couple of questions about config:

The observation that the controls behave as expected in SNES games shows that the hardware is wired correctly and the driver is working properly :-)

Which arcade emulator are you using at the moment? I would need to take a look into that specific emulator to try and find an answer for our questions.

I tried a couple of emulators and they all behaved the same. I tried LR-MAME-2003 and LR-FBalpha.

I'm going off of memory as I'm away on holiday as of this morning, but it was something along those lines.

[domodan]

@petrockblog said in Couple of questions about config:

The observation that the controls behave as expected in SNES games shows that the hardware is wired correctly and the driver is working properly :-)

Which arcade emulator are you using at the moment? I would need to take a look into that specific emulator to try and find an answer for our questions.

I'm using LR-MAME2003. I'd love to figure out how to get the second player controls working for the ARCADE portion.

[domodan]

This is the retroarch.cfg from the "Arcade" folder:

Settings made here will only override settings in the global retroarch.cfg if placed above the #include line

input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/arcade/"

input_player1_joypad_index = "0"
input_player2_joypad_index = “1”
#include "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg"

[domodan]

I'm willing to pay someone to help me with this, if anyone is so inclined. I really need to get it figured out in the next 4-5 days.

In addition to getting player 2 working, I also need some advice/input on how to map buttons for specific games. For example, if I want the JUMP button in Donkey Kong to be button 10 instead of button 6. Or if I want Madden 98 on SNES to have Y/X/A/B mapped to different buttons than on other games, etc...

Players 1 and 2 work fine on NES, SNES, Sega, etc... they just don't work on arcade. The other thing that has started happening lately is the "COIN" button registers two presses for every one press. I may have done something in RETROARCH.CFG to cause that, but I don't think so.

As it stands, under ARCADE it doesn't accept inputs from ANY of the Player 2 buttons, including COIN/SELECT and START.

[UDb23]

@domodan Some of the older arcade games actually offered 2nd player option but joystick still was just one on the cabinet. I think this is the case of Donkey Kong.
Unless there is a specific option in Retroarch, I would expect lr-mame to just emulate the original game and therefore not support a 2nd joystick for input.

[domodan]

@UDb23 said in Couple of questions about config:

@domodan Some of the older arcade games actually offered 2nd player option but joystick still was just one on the cabinet. I think this is the case of Donkey Kong.
Unless there is a specific option in Retroarch, I would expect lr-mame to just emulate the original game and therefore not support a 2nd joystick for input.

Thank you for the reply. That may be the case with Donkey Kong, but this happens with EVERY arcade game. Pac-Man and everything included. I guess there's a chance that all the games I have tried fall in to that. I will try TMNT, which I know had 4 separate players...or NBA Jam...which I know had at least two. I am doing a few things to the cabinet right now so it's not possible for me to try it for a few days.

[edmaul69]

@domodan also some old games that have both players on one control have a dipswitch setting to seperate them. If you hit tab on the keyboard you can access them.

[UDb23]

@domodan Pac man also just one joystick ;-)
You can test with Contra, one of the first intended for two player simultaneously.

[domodan]

@UDb23 - Thank you! I'll snag the MAME version of Contra and see how that handles it. I appreciate you pointing me in that direction!!!