Okay, solved and this is one I recommend making more clear in the documentation. My issue was that I ALWAYS keep a wireless keyboard connected to my Retropie. It's just a tiny dongle taking one port so why not? It's so much easier for certain tasks.

However, I kept wondering why the test rom for Intellivision was reporting that I was on controller 2 and every other comment pointed to controller one. Then I noticed posts where people said that Daphne and Intellivion (jzintv anyway) assign the first controller they see, which in this case was the keyboard -- and that explained why the keyboard worked. Ugh.

@yfzdude Actually thought we had this one.

I sent back and took a CLOSE look at emulators.cfg (where you add the link to the hack file) as I found it odd that mine was already there.

What I realized is that it was there, but for the tzintvecs (which I assume has something to do with running things in the expansion port). So, I added it to the main program as you can see below, but still nothing. Changing the JS1's to JS0's also made no difference after this fix.

jzintv = "/opt/retropie/emulators/jzintv/bin/jzintv -p /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS -q --kbdhackfile=/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/intellivision/hackfile.cfg %ROM%" Advanced Controller Mapping %ROM%" default = "jzintv" jzintvecs="/opt/retropie/emulators/jzintv/bin/jzintv -v1 -s1 --kbdhackfile=/opt/retropie/configs/intellivision/hackfile.cfg -z1920x1080, -f1 -q -p /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS %ROM%"

@jamrom2 What's the name of this script? I thought I found it, but Mobile Gamepad isn't it. heheh

And given that my jzintv looks like crap, what do you recommend to get it right?

Does this happen even outside of EmulationStation ? If you exit EmulationStation and move your joystick left, does it restart the Pi ?

@davindersangha @churchill7

Tried it. Didn't work. Just too unstable and some of the keys just didn't match up.

Next solution is to dismantle the old Atari joystick and replace the insides with joystick and controller. Need something quite small though, as the existing arcade ones seem to be a bit too big.

So, the plan is. Dismantle the joystick, have the standard single button and directional stick in the joystick, but on the controller board I would add some extra "buttons" connected to the Reset, etc. switches on the Atari machine to map with Start and Select and Back.

@barbudreadmon said in What is the best MAME to use with Pi 4 4GB? (Largest library, highest compatability):

@obrie572 said in What is the best MAME to use with Pi 4 4GB? (Largest library, highest compatability):

I can tell offroad is not implemented by fbneo yet

indeed

Well, maybe I was simply hoping it would have been supported by fbneo, but I hoped a bit too hard. :P

@clyde
That's fantastic, thanks for the info! I had been searching for usb interfaces on the web, but hadn't seen one like this. I don't see why this wouldn't work. I'll give it a shot, and let everyone know.

@thorndike said in Joystick configuration on Atari Fight Stick:

First, when configuring the joystick through emulationstation which set of configuration options should I use to configure the joystick? The first set of directional inputs, or those farther down in the configuration menu?

You can use both to navigate EmulationStation, but most games expect something similar to a D-Pad (the first), so I'd use that.

I am currently using the first set of directional inputs but the joystick is very sensitive. If using the other directional inputs don't make a difference is there a way to adjust the sensitivity of the joystick?

You can try to increase the deadzone for the joystick using evdev-joystick , a command line utility.

I posted this in a similar thread. This workaround works flawlessly for me and doesn’t require any editing in Retropie:

Go to the 8bitdo official website, download and install the 8bitdo ultimate software on your PC or Mac, if not already done. Plug the 8Bitdo Arcade Stick to your PC or Mac with a USB cable and make sure your selector knob is in “X” mode (top left of the 8bitdo Arcade Stick) Start the 8bitdo Ultimate software On the right, in the button mapping panel, beside RT, associate RS instead. Do the same for LT except choose LS. Don’t forget to synchronize the controller (icon at the top) before disconnecting the USB cable. Connect your 8bitdo Arcade stick to the Retropie either via a USB cable, the 2. To 4G stick or Bluetooth. Push the start button to get to the main menu (you might need another controller or keyboard to make the selections initially). Select “configure input”. At first, make sure your selector knob is selected to DP (middle selection) to associate D-pad up, down, left, right. This time the RT and RS buttons will work flawlessly.

@mitu said in Joysticks not detected after upde:

it's your device - did you purchase it with RetroPie ?

Not really, it's not my device. My sister gave it to me because they were not using it and after updating it the joysticks stopped working.
I will try to reinstall mk_arcade_joystick_rpi and if not, I will have to reinstall it from 0.

Thanks!

@DSilsbury said in Can't start VICE (c64) menu from within game:

Built From: an image from arcade punks.

We don't support 3rd party images - especially the ones loaded with ROMs. Use the image from retropie.org.uk/download and we can offer support.

Ok I finally found where this issue was coming from. And it has nothing to do with other controllers afterall.

See the plastic case around the right joystick is not completely flat. Such that the 'Up' direction does not go exactly as far as the other directions in fact.

The axis values setup with uinput were : 0 to 40.
The real ADC values read were :

left-right axis : Between 4(left) and 37 (right) Up-Down axis : Between 6(up) and 38 (down)

So the up direction was 6 units from the minimum value, while the others were only 4 units or less from min/max values. And it seems that was the issue here. This 6 must have been considered inside the 'Dead-zone' of the joystick for the EmulationStation mapping configurator.

After modifying the python script such that the axis setup was between 0 and 36, and reducing the read values of ADC by 4, I now have :

The axis values setup with uinput were : 0 to 36.
The real ADC values read :

left-right axis : Between 0(left) and 34 (right) Up-Down axis : Between 1(up) and 35 (down)

And now it's registering correctly.

Though I think this issue is probably the same for the other topics/gamepads that I found on reddit/this forum. It's probably the joystick "dead-zone" which is too big in the emulationstation mapping configurator for those specific gamepads.

I just got this to work and it does help making GnG much more playable!

Use the Hotkey+X combo to open the green settings screen. Find 'Options'.

I had to flip both 4-way and also analog->digital to get it to play well. It's not perfect since only an actual correct joystick would do that. But it's now completely playable so can recommend for others that are having this problem.

@simpleethat I second the Retroflag Snes controller's. But for Mega Drive/Genesis i use the official licensed from Retrobit.

just closing the loop here, for 1. i didn't figure out how to map the system's joystick fire button to a gamepad button but after some online searching apparently every TI994A game can be controlled solely by the keyboard - the fire key for Shamus is "q" after some trial and error (hold "q" and press the direction of fire). all good now!

@NewAtThis Can you try updating the ti99sim emulator from source and check again if the resolution handling is better ? It's been updated to the latest version, which was a major update.
Try to remove any video mode set through the runcommand launch menu.