@slug54 said in Need help getting analog sticks working in lr-mame2003 or any version of lr-mame:

If I choose the option for Left Analog Forced

It entirely ignores whether something is already mapped or not to the left analog stick, so i don't recommend ever using that crap. The non-forced option is supposedly safer in that concern, but i have seen reports proving otherwise from people using it.
I'm 99% sure there used to be a core option to map digital-to-analog-left and/or analog-left-to-dpad in some of the vintaged mame cores, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

I'd recommend setting "Analog to Digital Type" back to "none" and using either MAME2003-plus (lr-mame2003-plus) or MAME (lr-mame), both seem to handle this safely out-of-the-box.

Tbh, i don't understand why retropie is still trying to push users toward lr-mame2003 in this day and age, lr-mame2003-plus is the non-arguably improved version of it, and lr-mame run fairly well on newer raspberry models.

Alternatively you could also use FBNeo (lr-fbneo) which also handles this out-of-the-box and offers interesting control alternatives for Battlezone.

@mrchips was you able to get LEDSpicer to work with the UltraStik 360?
Let me know if not :)
Also, I have a question, do you have the servostick connected to the UltraStik 360?
I will like to know if that works with the flag set!
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@lostless Got it, didn't realize I had to do this from Retroarch while playing the game. Thanks!!!

Don't you just hate when you have had a problem for days and you finally ask for help, you happen to figure it out? I guess it's cause at that point you abandoned your train of thought.

Anyways for anyone else trying to get the analog features working for farious SEGA games and rebind them for your flightstick or steering wheel I've made a little chart so you can add the rebinds manually

Find your games keybindings file, as example i'll use Afterburner II on the MegaDrive. which can be found at: "/opt/retropie/configs/megadrive/Genesis Plus GX/"
In my case with filename "After Burner II (USA, Europe).rmp"

Open it in notepad and adjust your keys, here is an example of the default buttons, with the A,B,X,Y buttons added, and the vertical throttle removed.
I've also made a little picture you can use as reference, you'll find that under the code, it has all the numbers you need to use.
That's all, have fun setting up your flightsticks and racewheels on a 16bit console.

#Device ID for XE-1AP: input_libretro_device_p1 = "773" #Start and Select input_player1_btn_select = "2" input_player1_btn_start = "3" #A,B,X,Y = East,South,North,West input_player1_btn_a = "11" input_player1_btn_b = "13" input_player1_btn_x = "10" input_player1_btn_y = "12" #D-Pad is unused so lets add Select and Start to it incase your flightstick doesnt have enough buttons input_player1_btn_up = "-1" input_player1_btn_down = "-1" input_player1_btn_left = "2" input_player1_btn_right = "3" #Left Joystick input_player1_stk_l_x+ = "16" input_player1_stk_l_x- = "17" input_player1_stk_l_y+ = "18" input_player1_stk_l_y- = "19" #Right joystick (Throttle) input_player1_stk_r_x+ = "-1" input_player1_stk_r_x- = "-1" input_player1_stk_r_y+ = "21" input_player1_stk_r_y- = "20" #Left Shoulder buttons input_player1_btn_l = "10" input_player1_btn_l2 = "12" #Right Shoulder buttons input_player1_btn_r = "11" input_player1_btn_r2 = "13" #No idea what E1 and E2 buttons are for, but lets add them to the thumbstick buttons (R3, L3). input_player1_btn_l3 = "1" input_player1_btn_r3 = "0"

XE-1AP.png

I think I screwed something up on the pre-made retroie image. Because I re-flashed the pi and set I2C to be loaded through sudo raspi-config, now when I reboot it does detect my I2C. One step closer to my mobile retropie!

@mitu it worked!Thanks again

@ian-rosenberg Don't bump topics for no reason, it's rude.
If you can't figure out how to do things, try to find and example - did you look at the Adafruit's code ?

@dudleydes "Select" eventually inserts a coin for all roms. However, I have to push a bunch of buttons first before "Select" inserts a coin. I've experimented to see if I need only to wait a certain amount of time, or hit a certain button before Select, however I haven't found any specific requirement other than hitting a bunch of buttons. And this happens for all roms, mspacman.zip, frogger.zip, mappy.zip, dkong.zip, and so on.

It's off topic but fun to mention-- I modified the dkong.zip ROM so that Pauline is the one climbing the ladders to save Mario rather than the other way around. It's pretty cool that it actually worked (i.e., I didn't figure out how to do it, but found a process for doing it on the web).

Sorry - this became obsolete for me because of that post:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/1060

ohh, I didn't knew descent supported that rare analog pad.
I poked around and managed to add the option to use that analog pad in the menu, it works wonders.
I just created a pull request with the fix. now it should be a matter of time for the option appear if they accept my fix.

Well, i must say, i suddenly found a solution that works for now.
The analog stick is working, D-pad still no response.
Anyway, i changed the controller settings but did not change the up, down, left right. Just left it as the default values.
UP : up
DOWN: down
LEFT: left
RIGHT: right

I only have changed the buttons. this setting seems to work.

@markt correct. As I said, and from reading your jstest tests, your joysticks are effectively being recognized as analogs correctly, it's just that they don't really map to the trackball the way you think they could.

You may try another emulator (lr-fba vs lr-mame vs AdvMame) and see if they handle it differently, or maybe someone has a different idea on how to configure it to make it work the way you want.

@herb_fargus
Thanks a lot. Solved

@FirestormTimob

Check out these cool devices on icode.com. they allow you to have up to 4 paddles or joysticks connected to you PC via usb. There is even a bluetooth version.

Atari paddles and joysticks usb adapter

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