@stoney66 well - switched the roms and now they work. Centipede, Missile Command, Golden Tee 2 are all working now under AdvMame. Marble Madness is still unhappy, but I would assume that's still just a rom issue. I think this issue is likely resolved now. Thank you everyone for your help! @mahoneyt944 and @stoney66

@jgeibel still does not work. log file says that there is no emulator attached to the folder. With that language is still makes me think that it it looking for a single emulator binary to pay attention to for each folder

Can you turn the power to them on and off in a software loop?

@dankcushions Yeah I was banging my head against the wall last night, finally realized I needed to use the good old Tab menu to set the keys in mame2003.

P.S.
I'm using a Raspberry pie 3 b+
and the retropie version is 4.5.1

Also when I lauch a game that is long so start (Metal slug ) I can see the input from my joystick on the screen.
And the keys repeat themself for an 2-3 sec before they stopped from repeating.
Seems to me like its a setting on the raspberry /linux.
But I cant find it
I tried "xset -r" to prevent the key to repeat them self, but the command is not recognized.

@andrewsi

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

@wstanek said in I-PAC2, connecting 1 Button to 2 Switches?:

I wouldn't recommend doing that though. Its better to have things straight forward, especially if you have guests.

That was one of the reasons why I was thinking about using dedicated buttons for "Hotkeys", as IMHO it is far easier to explain "Exit here this red Button, Save State that one with the record icon and Load this green one here...."

But then, maybe I will get myself into to much things to consider - as this is my 1st Build of a Control Panel I think you two are right to stick with the Basics (Retropies own Hotkeys + I-Pacs Shift - so far I thought to use the Shift ability of the I-Pac to get some of the most crucial Keys for Amiga/CBM64/etc. Games).
And thanks to you both as I now know that it is possible and that with a later (re)build and gained experience I could think again about single button double-links :cheers:

I got it working, but I can't say exactly what I did to fix it. The only thing I can think of is that the Mini-PAC needs to be plugged in before any other controller - so no mouse, no keyboard, just the controller USB. Then plug in a keyboard. I'm not sure if this is what fixed it, since I was attempting other remedies concurrently.

From the logs, yes, it looks like the detection works ok. You can try contacting the author and provide the logs, maybe they have an idea what is going wrong here - the RetroPie side (emulators) is not changed from what is declared in the configuration.

I was kind of giving up hope I would get my Howler working on my Pi3. Is there a retro pi image that I can download that will have everything set up? I'm really new to all of this, and I'm also dyslexic so the amount of reading I have to do is pretty daunting.

I'd love to find an image I can just put on my SD card and start going.

@kombat Yes. I flashed to 1.39. You can still use it as a keyboard if desired, but the option to change the buttons to gamepad buttons is now available.

Emulationstation also sees my mini-ipac as two"Ultimarc Mini-Ipac"s now instead of "keyboard"

I dont think you can as it is seen as a mouse.

@jenny18 a spinner automatically detects as a mouse. You shouldnt have to do anything to get it working. In a mame game you might have to enable spinner/trackball/mouse in the game. A spinner never will detect as a controller.

I got the Ultimarc BlueHID working after a fresh reinstall of the latest RetroPie 4.4. Which is great news, I can highly recommend this controller board with RetroPie!

http://www.u-hid.com/home/overview_bboard.php

I finally got it working too after a fresh reinstall of RetroPie.

It did not work when I did an update to 4.4 on top of the 4.3, which is not recommended. Now I see why :)

@caver01 ok. I was lazy in my wording. It doesn't make me want to read it. It's obviously / hopefully the right log file.

@edmaul69

Nice. That's a great middle ground solution.