PIFBA controller help

RavensEtchings

Greetings all! I'm just after some help with setting up the controller layout for PIFBA and was wondering if anyone could share their input setup with me as I'm having quite a lot of difficulty with finding the right button combinations. Here is my setup at the moment. For example with Samurai Showdown I have the heavy and light sword attacks in buttons X and A and light kick is B. I've tried everything and I can't seem to get the right input for heavy kick in button Y. L and R buttons are coin insert and start so that works ok but I can't seem to find the right combination to assign them to Select and start buttons.

A_1=3
B_1=1
X_1=0
Y_1=
L_1=4
R_1=6
START_1=7
SELECT_1=6

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm relatively new to all this.

FlyingTomahawk

@RavensEtchings

Is there any particular reason why you want to use pifba?
What Raspberry are you using?
If you insist on using pifba, have you checked your button layouts using jstest?

RavensEtchings

It's what I could get working with certain games. Like I said I'm relatively new to all of this. I'm using a RP3. I don't know what Jtest is.

FlyingTomahawk

@RavensEtchings

I know "exactly" how you feel. Been there done that.
Here an old topic of mine, my second one when I newly joined the RetroPie forum.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6306/pifba-config-file-getting-ignored

Read the last post of mine.

All games run with the lr-fbalpha core which is way easier to setup than pifba.
You just need to use the right romset version. Search for "fba 0.2.97.39 romset" in your favorite search engine.

jstest will show you what number each button has.
To run jstest you need to get a SSH client.
I use PuTTY for Windows to SSH into my my RPi.
Once there you need this

User: pi
Password: raspberry

Once in type this and hit enter

jstest /dev/input/js0

Now you should see a whole bunch of numbers that are all set to OFF. Now push your controller or arcade stick buttons and look which button turns which number to ON.
Write that down somewhere for future reference.
To exit just close the PuTTY window.

You can do all that using your RPi by connecting a keyboard to it and hit F4 to enter the same command prompt window.
There type the same jstest command as above and test your controller.

RavensEtchings

Ahh ok awesome :) I'll start with getting the romset first I think and then work out the controls from there. Thank you very much for your help so far!

zero.fx

@ravensetchings

Hi

Did you managed to get it to work?

zero.fx

@flyingtomahawk

I signed up purely after reading many of your posts in this forum.

I have been pulling my hair out over fba2x configs and it's driving me mad.

I have an arcade stick connected up and working fully with snes and mega drive, but I am struggling real hard with trying to get the correct Neo Goe setup against a PS4 stick.
I been playing around with the fba2x.cfg to map the buttons but I have been getting no where.

FlyingTomahawk

@zero-fx

I never got it right. I just got the right rom sets for lr-fbalpha and there controller setup is a walk in the park.

zero.fx

@flyingtomahawk

Many thanks, I think i will stop wasting my time and just go with rom set for lr-fbalpha.