@Darksavior said in USB Arcade Stick + USB Gamepad:

Not exactly what you were asking, but you can assign a game pad to a player # to a specific emulator or globally in configuration editor . The screenshots arent updated but they're there. https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Configuration-Editor

Also, if you're using a libretro emulator, can't you change controllers in the retroarch in-game menu?

This sounds great. So I can assign the game pads (currently Player 3 & 4) to Player 1 & 2 in a specific emulator, say the lr-SNES core. I'll look into this as this would be perfect. Thanks.

@Ikyrus said in Help requested for FinalBurn Alpha and SEGA driving games:

What was the problem with the digital controls?

That means you can't turn at X% with digital control (X being a value between 0 and 100), you either don't turn or turn at 100%, which is not how those games were meant to be played, so the gameplay is degraded.
With analog control, you can turn at whatever % you want.

No problem. Please make sure to mark the thread as solved when you have a moment.

Have fun!

Any updates on a solution?

Quick note - I needed to change

input_player1_l = "q"
input_player1_r = "w"

to

input_player1_l = "("
input_player1_r = ")"

as q and w are used for games with more than 4 buttons such as Street Fighter Alpha 3.

Will the quotation marks causes any problems for retroarch anywhere else @Floob

Thanks again

I had the same problem - controls working in every other emulator except SNES. I checked the config folder for SNES and 1 of the CFG files (not sure if it was emulators or retroarch) was 0 KB - I deleted it reboot the pi and it remade a new CFG file - hey presto controls now working. :-)

Update

Yesterday I went ahead and FTP'ed the retroarch.cfg to this folder on the SD card:

\retropie\configs\from_retropie\configs\all\retroarch.cfg
-- Note to be honest I am at work and not in front of the RPi3 so I am guessing that was the path to the file.

I rebooted the Rpi3 and went down to the game-room to see what the controls now did. Well they worked! They all did something and that was great. No they are not all correctly mapped to the MAME/iPAC2's default settings. One example of an issue is that in MAME to exit MAME you traditionally do a P1 & P2. On this current button configuration I have to do a P2&P1. This will need to be changed in the config.

I also noticed that Player 1's buttons correspond to getting into and out of menus. I will need to disable those menus and the white dialog config box in the end.

Otherwise MAME setup is looking good!

One question is this can I create a retroarch.cfg file for just the MAME versions I am using and let the original mapping work for all other consoles? What I eventually want to do is to have matching USB joysticks on a hook on either side of the cab in case I want to hit some SMB3 or old school SNES game.

Thank you,
Battlecat

I do confirm issue with the deletion of the kick roms is now gone (either via binary or source options). Yet I still having issue with the controls. I'll keep checking in the coming days to see if upstream got fixes. Though the binary option from RP doesn't help and I'm really puzzled by that.

I'll give another look soon. THANKS.

Could be that annoying bug that many people faced with the new version. Really what @Floob said; check the following file:

/opt/retropie/configs/psx/retroarch.cfg

If it has a lot of code you need to delete the file, update the RetroPie Install script, re-install the emulator(s). I had a similar problem with the Genesis emulators and this solved it, I hope it works for you like it did for me.

@ultranano has this been fixed? I also have a DragonRise Joystick and up and down is inverted. I cannot switch the up down wires without desoldering the connector. It's just a hassle...

Is there another way to invert the axis?
I read somewhere changing from JA_LR_1=0 to JA_LR_1=-0 but this didn't work.

@frudda said in [SOLVED] 8bitdo ZERO Gamepad controls are mapped incorrectly:

Hey i cant get my controller working. My config file looks like this

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