@AlphaBetaPie not sure, but mame2010 is a relatively immature core that has a bunch of missing/broken features, hence it’s not the default/recommend mame core. it’s not really had the attention of the recommend ones.

@dankcushions said in Mame 2003 Retroarch controls for 6 button games:

it's added complexity and in my experience users struggle enough with "just use 0.78 + mame2003", never mind "use 0.78 and mame2003+

I would tend to agree with @barbudreadmon. Even mame2003 is starting to "drift" with changes (albeit small but still no longer the static set it used to be--a few additions here, a rom set rename there). You might as well go with mame2003+ for the most part.

If you can get the ROM management concept down for those minor changes in mame2003, that is if those games interest you, then mame2003+ isn't that much more work.

I would have rather seen mame2003 hold a hard line on its set and let mame2003+ be the dynamic set with additions, deletions and corrections.

I think mame2003 is much simpler to understand and configure (mainly the interface) but mame2003+ is more progressive. They do have 3 folks doing quite a bit of work currently with some worthy additions.

As barbudreadmon pointed out a majority are the original rom set but some updates improve accuracy (like Bubble Bobble) and some additions are recent emulation code, hence more accurate. When you think of the target platform of low spec hardware it's a worthy core. I have a great base game set on the Pi 3 that I'm happy with, and the Pi 4 provides some nice 'oomph' for other cores.

@mitu FYI for the time being, I have a partial workaround to execute commands to stop and start emulationstation via a remote.

@mitu I just found that on another post and should have searched before posting, but thank you for the response. I am good now!

@sleve_mcdichael

Thank you! That did it.

quick update. I finished my rom updates and then performed the update to all core and installed optional packages as I did before. This time however my controls were not messed up, and everything appears to be working as expected. Not sure what happened the last install, but it appears it was a one off situation. Sorry to have bothered everyone, but thanks for the help anyway :)

Alright, I was able to select the second joystick in the in-game configuration - thanks for everyone who helped, it's working now!

@sleve_mcdichael said in [lr-fbneo] New: right-stick controls for several rotary games:

but it doesn't have the "rotate left/rotate right"

Those buttons are a hack, same as the right-stick controls, some rotary game drivers probably never implemented them.

Resolved restoring Keyboard settings.

@manuel_pieper have you checked your restrictor plate under the joystick? If its adjustable, maybe its in the 4 way profile instead of the 8 way?

@GreenHawk84 which version of Emulationstation are you running?

There has been a corner case [1], which escaped my mind in the first place, but then has been corrected by @pjft .

If your ES is below 2.10 (which I assume):

Either update to 2.10 onwards If you don't want to update use this workaround: Edit your ~/.emulationstation/es_settings.cfg while ES is not running and check the value of SlideshowScreenSaverCustomImageSource. Make it read false (you can also do it during ES is running in the Screensaver Options Menu).

Rationale: Your behaviour can happen on ES < 2.10 if you set your slideshow screensaver to use a custom image source and then switch to video screensaver (without disabling the image source flag).

Please report back if it solves your issue. And if it does, mark this topic with [solved] in your initial posting header.

[1] https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/commit/a8ccd0a75ba81b3e4af88ed3ebcfe08e57520ab6

0 pjft committed to RetroPie/EmulationStation Fix video screensaver launch game controls Video screensaver wasn't launching games when the Image screensaver had been set to use custom images, even if not in use. Introduced in #673 . Reported in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29291/video-screensaver-black-screen-with-omx-on-and-controls-not-working/

Thanks guys, this was very helpful. I just ordered the
I-PAC2. =)

@dankcushions Thx, good info so far. Layout looks like this:

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@theatomicfire said in Trying to make my own motion control with retropie:

However, I have been running into problems getting the gamepad "configured" within retropi. I created cfg file for my "input device" which retopi recognizes, but none of the commands i input through the script actually go through

Do you mean EmulationStation will not recognize and configure your input ? Is your device working with jstest or sdl2-jstest ?

Do you have any ideas as to how I could implement this?

Difficult to say without any more details or a look at the code you used.

@flopsi said in Using Gamepads and Arcade Controls At the same time.:

Waht can i do ??

As the printed error hints - do you have the RetroPie-Setup folder in /home/pi ? How did you install RetroPie ? Please add more info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@mitu happy to report that after installing 20.04 on another HD I am able to natively use my controllers in the menus. Now to go through the process of redoing all the OS tweaks.

Thanks for all your help @mitu

@mitu tried changing out the wires and that didn't work, so I guess I'll have to get a replacment button

@barbudreadmon said in Is there any way to use two joysticks for Wonderswan?:

@jimmyfromthebay said in Is there any way to use two joysticks for Wonderswan?:

Not sure what you mean by that. There's no such option that I can find under Controls (I have Show Advanced Options set to On).

You need to update RetroArch, this option is only a few months old, see https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-1-9-6-released/

Ah, thanks. I'm absolutely terrified to update core features like Retroarch in case they've done something moronic that requires the manual alteration of literally thousands of CFG files, like that time they added a new video aspect ratio which renumbered all the other ones :(

@mitu : Thank you very much. After installing Joy2key, the navigation works again with the gamepad. Thanks for the good advice.