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      Keyboard configuration issues with an IPAC2 in a Retropie/Pi/Mame arcade setup

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      @mitu Just wanted to say thanks for the help on this, it really means a lot. After losing some heart, I took another look over Christmas and the reset you suggested solved my joystick problem as well, so I've had a blast over the break playing on it.
      Next stage is to go back into the retroarch.cfg and configure the second joystick when friends are around, and then it'll be good to go.
      Thanks so much! And apols for not getting back sooner for your help :)

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      Please Help: IPAC2 and Hotkey

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      @mitu You sir are a gent. That did the trick. Thanks for all your help.

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      Older Ipac 2 button mapping question...

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      @seedyeh said in Older Ipac 2 button mapping question...:

      The ipac keystrokes are the ipac default ones. I am unable to update the firmware on this Ipac (confirmed by Andy over at Ultimarc).

      Providing the details listed here avoid later querstions, which most of the time will be needed without it.

      I-Pac pre-2004 Era? I am just in possesion of a 2015+ one and don't know what defaults are used on the older ones. Though it ain't part of the problem: you can reconfigure/reprogram the keystrokes send by the I-Pac by using the legacy application for it, or?
      What Mame Cores have you tried? As the I-Pac is treated as a KBD here, there may be conflicts between the keyboard input recognized by mame and the additional retropad input send to it (for some cores that may be disabled/configured in the rgui, so that they either see the keyboard or the retropad input, for others (or in addition to that) it may be needed to edit the mame inifile to react only on either one of those signals).

    • niyokiN

      joystick has only axis 4 and axis 5 how to configure for linapple?

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      @niyoki said in joystick has only axis 4 and axis 5 how to configure for linapple?:

      ... and has 1 hat switch (using axis4 and axis5)

      So it looks like axis4/5 are not considered as an analog control, but as a Hat - probably that's why linapple doesn't use them.

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      Player 2 binds in Retroarch 4.7.1

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      @mitu said in Player 2 binds in Retroarch 4.7.1:

      It's a common issue with 2player USB encoders when P1 is wired differently than P2.

      Maybe this should be stickied. "Super Metroid has a 'run' button, and your 2-player arcade controls must be wired identically." Might save a lot of posts.

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      Marble Madness not working with two trackballs Ultimarc IPAC2 MAME 2003 0.78, Assigning multi-mouse config help

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      Raspberry Pi 3b+ with Mini IPAC2 2 Player not working

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      mituM

      Did you take a look at https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Keyboard-Controllers/#configuration-example-ipac ? It's a page specifically dedicated to keyboard controllers.

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      RetroPie/EmuStation/RetroArch not Keeping IPAC4 Config

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      @ToddThomas said in RetroPie/EmuStation/RetroArch not Keeping IPAC4 Config:

      Let me take one step back and ask you this. On a fresh install of Retropie, if all I have hooked up is the IPac4, should EmulationStation prompt me that there is no controller/gampad recognized (like the F310)? Or should it move on to the heart of the program?

      On a fresh install, it always ask to configure controlls (even with a recognized controller). IMHO that it ain't reporting something like "keyboard detected, press any key to configure it as input" and just states that no controller was detected is a bit arguable, nevertheless on first start that is the expected behaviour.
      But afterwards, if the keyboard was setup as a controller, the dialog shouldn't appear anymore - and besides /opt/.../all/retroarch.cfg I have no idea what other configs could be responsible and /core/rom override retroarch.cfgs should have no effect on ES.
      Could you log into your system via ssh and look at the output from lsusb to see if the IPac is listed as a recognized Device if that Requester Pops up again after the initial setup?

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      Amiberry - map an Amiga keyboard key to a specific keyboard key

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      I have the same question as this so bumping this old thread - I can't seem to find a way to remap. Does anybody have an idea please?

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      Arcade Button Config

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      Need some help with getting basic mame2003-plus control settings right for my config.

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      @andrewsi

      Ah, I see. Thank you for the info. I will give it a try!

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      Retroarch Config File Editing For Ipac

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      @Lugzyboy82

      it should happend automaticly, once you configure the joysticks in emulationstation.
      i suggest you start by testing using jstest command, to see if the joysticks is reconized as gamepads or if it still thinks it is a keyboard.

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      Mame 37b5, Rom folder, Player 2 Controls and Attract Mode

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      @jamietuley
      It is possible to change the order of the emulator/systems in emulationstation, it is a rather manual process, from the command line
      cp /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/
      This file contains relevant system information for EmulationStation as well as the alphabetical list of systems.
      Now you can edit this using nano recommended only if using the terminal directly accessed by pressing "F4" (type exit to begin emulationstation again)
      nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
      (Hold Shift to highlight, Ctrl+K to Cut, Ctrl+U to uncut)
      or
      through the network share by finding \\\configs\all\emulationstation\es_systems.cfg
      and using your windows text editor.

      It is important to keep the enclosing brackets <system></system> intact when selecting the text to change the system order.

      I would just skip attract mode. There are some pretty good themes in ES and you can still configure the order of the systems.

      Pegasus FE is perhaps a better alternative to AttractMode

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      [SOLVED] IPAC2 controller for a 2 players retropie 4.4 bartop arcade with MAME and 9 other consoles.

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      @alexp You can avoid all this by flashing the ipac2 to gamepad enabled firmware 1.39 and setting the buttons as Gamepad buttons. Both sides work and it is 1000x easier. ES configures everything easily, no extra cfgs needed.

      Use this guide, but use the ipac2 instead of the miniipac.

      https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/47100-how-to-xtension-arcade-emulator-edition-controller-as-dual-gamepads/

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      Retroarch Hotkey Issue

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      Pi Model or other hardware: (3b)
      Power Supply used: (The Recommended One)
      RetroPie Version Used (retropie-4.4-rpi2_rpi3)
      Built From: (The Original Image)
      USB Devices connected: Keyboard Only
      Controller used: IPAC 2 Controller In Keyboard Mode
      Error messages received: N/A
      Emulator: (Not Working In Any)

      The joypads folder is empty, I`m not using a controller I am using a keyboard and an IPAC 2 controller in keyboard mode. IPAC is running latest firmware.

      I have not intentionally disabled the menu toggle, I have accessed RetroArch and changed the Enable Hotkey and that seems to work, I have also specified the Menu Toggle which I`m assuming is to launch RetroArch from within the game?

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      Mouse and lr-mame

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      I had this issue where a left mouse click would freeze any game that had a panel overlay (the side art around the actual gameplay). Here was a thread about it. It looks like its fixed on the newest version of Retroarch 1.7.7.

      https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16926/retroarch-cores-crash-on-trigger-press-mouse-click-with-overlay-active

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      Adding USB controllers to retropie 2-player arcade cabinet

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      @stevepax Hello and belated welcome to this forum. I'm close to finishing my own arcade cabinet myself and I plan to do something similar to you but with two bluetooth controllers for players 3 + 4. I didn't dive into the matter deeply yet, however, but I'll try to answer your questions to the best of my current knowledge.

      If the emulator and the game rom support four players, you should be able to configure the controls for players 3+4 just like those for players 1+2. Mind that some games come in different versions (roms). TMNT has 2 and 4 players versions, for example. Its 2 players versions have "2p" in their rom names. At least Retroarch should recognize your controllers upon reconnection. A common advice is to connect them every time to the same usb ports in the same order. There's also a script by @meleu called joystick-selection that simplifies the mapping of controllers to players, and if the controllers should be recognized by their names or by the ports they're plugged into. Alas, I don't know.

      You're rightly terrified to lose your configuration if you didn't backup it recently. Do so now, because bad things happen all the time to "valuable" data, e.g. storage failure. (I put "valuable" in quotes because there is a saying that data with no backups isn't important by definition; if it were, it would have backups.)

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      IPAC2 issue - 2 actions when pressing 1 button with lr-mame2003

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      @fingal perfect! That’s what I was hoping it would do, but hard to explain exactly. So:witnessed you have to go back to games that you already tried mapp8ng 8n this manner and update those too, because they might have their individual saved key maps.

      Glad we solved it.

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      No trackball / spinner recognized if running AdvMame with iPAC2 and a keyboard plugged in

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      @Texacate link updated in my post above.