@psyke83 said in DOSBox does not detect axis 4 or 5 on PS4 and XBox 360 controller:

@JemyM said in DOSBox does not detect axis 4 or 5 on PS4 and XBox 360 controller:

@psyke83 said in DOSBox does not detect axis 4 or 5 on PS4 and XBox 360 controller:

Please test and report on whether the joystick binding patch (as well as dosbox in general) works as expected: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/2646

I am not good enough. I was able to follow Dudleydes instructions above and that worked, but I do not know how to get this patch to my retropie. I tried to update "dosbox from source" but that did not work.

The PR already been merged, so update your Retropie-Setup script and then update dosbox to get the patched version.

Have you tried dosbox-sdl2? It might have better joystick handling.

I forgot about this because I updated and I can verify that it works. We are not using dosbox-sdl2 in our keyboard 2 joypad project since its not needed. The keyb2joy.pad project document and index keys assigned to functions. We basically fill in columns with the keys used for things like "jump", "move" or "fire". I have then made an utility that produce authentic DOSBox .map files with full Retropie-support based on these profiles. So far we made 550 platform games fully playable on joypad and we are 20% through the 600 shoot-em ups on the DOS platform.

Hello,

Quick update. I re-flashed and figured it out.

The problem was that i had the PS3 controller driver enabled and this was disconnecting the ps4 controller after it had synced up as they don't work together.

So i disabled the ps3 driver and then just blue-toothed the PS4 pad the normal way (without the DS4 driver) and it works perfectly.

Thanks for your help.

@mitu Alright! Then I will wait until the Scraper problem is fixed. The autostart is already implemented in the retropie programm. Just need to go to the retropie setup and set the autostart option to enable.

My Retropie is now starting automatically. When I quit Retropie, I have my normal Ubuntu Desktop.

Anyways, thanks for the help! I am done for now.

Please add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first to your post.
The controller configuration should be done in Emulationstation, it's then automatically translated into RetroArch configuration file(s) so you don't have to re-configure your controller in again in RetroArch.

@Tom_Neverwinter Could you share what you found?

@mitu ah, thank you! I had did searching myself but hadn't seen that thread. I'll check it out!

Thanks for you answer!

I didn't know about the different emulators but I was using Mupen64plus which has his own config...
I tried lr-mupen64plus but the cinematics appears black sometimes and the game crashed a few times...

So a (re)switch on Mupen64plus.

Just in case someone has the same issue I drop here the configuration issue I had:
In the config file (/opt/retropie/configs/from_retropie/configs/n64/mupen64plus.cfg) I had this line:

# Joystick event string for stopping the emulator Joy Mapping Stop = "J1B10/B9"

The combination B10 (hotkeys) and B9 (start) seems to be ok for me BUT my controller was J0 not J1. It fix the "stop emulator" command. Now I have to check for the load/save state commands.

Thanks again for you answer. It really helped me :-)

@southblazia You don't need to install any additional drivers for a DS4, as soon as your pair it via Bluetooth it should be ready to be configured in ES. Please give more information about your setup as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@urko948 Online Updater is mainly used for cheats.

@saltyy Well i think its no use to try to fix a error that i dont understand, it appers every time even if i reinstall it, and tbh, there a a lot of errors on the pi ^^

and... the error is about a ps3 controller, mine is a ps4 so its kinda wrong ^^

@lostless i couldn’t swap them in the RetroArch menu because the confirm and cancel buttons on the controller wouldn’t work in RetroArch for some reason. So here is what I did and it worked perfectly. I downloaded retropie version 4.2 and re flashed the mini sd card. Now it works just fine. But thank you for your suggestions. Love this community.

Has anyone figured out a solution?

@hophead05
I also have the same problem and same controller. If I change to other n64-emulator the controller works but the emulation is slow.

So like I said the PS4 lets me move around in EmuStation just fine, no issues with buttons etc. If I launch Retroarch GUI, the PS4 can't move around in it at all. I have to restart the system to get out of it.

@yourrid in lr-genesis-plusgx you are supposed to be able to switch between 3 and 6 button with the select button but it doesnt work. And strangely some 6 button games default 6 buttons and some dont. So i just use lr-picodrive. Problem solved.

Regarding quake:

Again I'm an idiot. I never checked to see if the +3 and -3 were the actual values. The axis on a PS4 controller is actually + and - 5. So all I had to do was replace the 3s with 5s. Not sure why binding it to 3 made the controller unresponsive though.

input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/ports/quake/" input_player1_r_y_minus_axis = "+5" input_player1_r_y_plus_axis = "-5" #include "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg"

It might be picking up some of the input from the SixAxis motion sensing or one of the touchpads. If a different configuration is used by the RetroPie for the same controller for USB and Bluetooth, you might just need to fix the Bluetooth's config. It might explain why it happens on one setup and not the other. Not really an expert, or even an owner of a PS4 controller, though.

actually, I managed to solve the problem simply removing the .bak extension. I have now two configuration files for the two controllers and everything seems to be working fine even in games.

Thanks anyway!
Francesca

@dankcushions . ok, I'll open a new thread. Thanks!

@bytethis right, and I changed the source of course to see the video. But it didn't work until I changed the pi from the HDMI2 on the back of my TV to the HDMI1.

Boom, plenty of sound.

Very happy!

Thanks again,
Paul