Thanks. I will look in the future.

All,

thanks for replying and apologies for not including some relevant info :-)

So,

Pi 3B
Official Pi PSU
RetroPie Version 4.3.9
Built from Pre made SD image on site
Arcade cabinet with 2x joysticks plugged into generic encoders presented as DragonRise generic USB joystick (no issues with any other emulators/games)
Config: https://pastebin.com/pmUkTEVe
Issue is as stated, load cannonball with no issues, go to config controls cannot set any controls in there, can navigate menu system but left and right perform up and down (if that makes sense)

I have cannonball installed on a picade I made a while back with no issues at all.

any help appreciated

Thanks

@mitu said in Controller mapping - Cannonball:

Please give more details about your setup as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@douga @mitu I've wired them the same way and it workds, so thanks everyone!

@edmaul69 said in lr-FBA controller config:

@tr3v0r when you set up a 6 button layout it is supposed to be set up as

LXR
YBA

yes there is massive confusion at the moment with 6 and 8 buttons.

the Megadrive/Genesis (6 Button) layout you where using is probably for the megadrive emulator its no good in other cores. Keep in mind to remap your genesis core if your using this as a global

@rsn8887 there is a way to set systems that way. I do it manually in the retroarch.cfg for each system but there is an easier and technically correct way to do it but i dont know how so hopefully someone can tell you.

@jdog35421 said in Controls mess up after I open a game.:

When I restart my pi by turning it off

are you pulling the power cord? if so, you could be corrupting your card!

@herb_fargus

The config for controller mapping in the Reicast config interface asks if you want to map buttons based off of the original controller button names, not the names of the buttons on the controller map located on the Reicast page.

This becomes a problem when the graphic on the Reicast page has a controller map with backwards buttons as you end up mapping buttons backwards. Either the Reicast mapping command prompt should change or the graphic needs to change to reflect the actual buttons. My vote is on the latter. The user must map the controller through the Reicast config prompts as none of the buttons work until you do so.

This is current as of 4.4 stretch.

The Reicast page also states that the controls are automatically configured as of 3.3. This is also false.

@johnny5126 I am new to Vice having only installed it over the weekend.

The video tutorial above that I used to map my joystick encouraged me to Save current settings, Save hotkeys and Save joystick map each time I made a new mapping.

I followed this advice and when I looked at the Vice config files in /opt/retropie/configs/c64, I noticed that changes were only being made to sdl-joymap-C64.vjm and not sdl-hotkey-C64.vkm which was the same as when first created.

For your maps to the virtual keyboard, for example, you should choose Save joystick map for them to persist. You can check this by looking at sdl-joymap-C64.vjm and you should see a line like 0 1 0 5 Virtual keyboard.

@arj5193 once you get into the game press your hotkey & X at the same time.

@spud11 said in Mapping a keypress to a joystick (Fuse/others):

My runcommand-onstart file is now 113Kb in size, but I've found it has to be devoted purely to xboxdrv and case $2. If I try to add anything else to it with more general application like trying to invoke a bash script unrelated to xboxdrv, runcommand-onstart just doesn't work.

I run 26 systems that make use of xboxdrv, sometimes having several dozen exceptions made for individual games. I've managed to keep the size of my runcommand-onstart.sh down to 39.9k by offloading the execution of xboxdrv itself to separate scripts. All the if/then stuff is still there, but once the conditions are met, it launches an outside script with the xboxdrv command. That may help to alleviate your situation.

Hi, if I use a regular snes controller usb design I can back out of Dreamcast the usual way start and select but when I use a wireless Xbox I have to use the center button? How can I change this, the pad is also the start button so if I’m playin I keep pausing by accident...how can I remap these?

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Wiimote-Controller google is your friend

If it helps, I have been occasionally updating the WIKI page for Keyboard Controllers. This has not been "pretty-ified" and copied over into the main Docs menu like most of the other wikis. It is a work in progress that can help folks using an IPAC or other keyboard controller (or even GPIO) hit the ground running. Several of you have helped with the details. Check it out if yours is a controller that sends keystrokes.

I see a lot of Zero Delay usage, maybe because they are abundant, inexpensive, and relatively easy to setup. However, I don't know much about them. If we have an expert on them, we should setup a wiki page for this controller too.

@xboxwin said in [RetroPie x64] many many questions from beginners:

EDIT: I think I found. I have to change Analog to Digital and choose Left Analog

Yes, that's it.

@edmaul69 And here is the requested Config. Since i cant upload Stuff here, i got you a Mediafire-Link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/az6zsxquld1gz2q/Xbox+Wireless+Controller.cfg

@pemy There is no "one size fits all" for keyboard users, but you could standardize by using MAME defaults. Those of us who use keyboard controllers like the Ultimarc IPAC usually have these wired to arcade controls. This situation is not the same has yours, as you are citing a computer emulator as opposed to arcade games, but the challenge is similar. What keys should be linked to what typical joypad/gamepad buttons? Ultimately, this is up to you. You can google MAME default keys.

@caver01 I'm working on it, now for some reason I can't click buttons in the menu of rgui :(