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    Amiberry & Ipac

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    • HoraceAndSpiderH
      HoraceAndSpider @tuki_cat
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      @tuki_cat said in Amiberry & Ipac:

      Hi,

      It's great your looking at an update to Amiberry.

      Here is a link to the Ultimarc website that lists the keys that are mapped to the Ipac.
      https://www.ultimarc.com/ipac2.html
      Does this help?

      Definitely a help - thank you! I am especially interested in maintining support for multiple players using ipac.

      I am just also keen to make sure the solution fits in with the RetroArch implementation, so i would still welome a .cfg file from someone using ipac.

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        tuki_cat @HoraceAndSpider
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        @horaceandspider

        I'm out at the moment, but I'll definitely send one when I'm back, unless someone sends one before.

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          tuki_cat
          last edited by tuki_cat

          Hi,

          I have pasted in a copy of my retroarch.cfg I hope it helps. See below, I am not sure how to attach files.

          Also, I know that Amiberry is being work on, there is some recent information on the Facebook page. I do realise that you might be the same person that has posted the updates, but thought I should point it as I know they are planning to do some work on the control scheme.

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          • herb_fargusH
            herb_fargus administrators @tuki_cat
            last edited by

            @tuki_cat please use pastebin or equivalent for large text files.

            If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

            Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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            • HoraceAndSpiderH
              HoraceAndSpider
              last edited by

              @tuki_cat said in Amiberry & Ipac:

              Also, I know that Amiberry is being work on, there is some recent information on the Facebook page. I do realise that you might be the same person that has posted the updates, but thought I should point it as I know they are planning to do some work on the control scheme.

              Hi @tuki_cat - just letting you know that , yes , I am the same person posting the updates on the FB page :)

              I am trying to build a PiGrrl device myself (although I have some case issues) but I noticed today that it also uses a "keyboard controller" so I will certainly be needing to find an accommodating solution that fits everything :)

              Thanks for the retroarch details - I too was going to recommend the use of pastebin for that kind of info in the future though!

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                tuki_cat
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                Hi,

                Great - if I can help with anything else just let me know.

                @herb_fargus I have deleted the long post, in future I'll use Pastebin

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                • HoraceAndSpiderH
                  HoraceAndSpider @tuki_cat
                  last edited by

                  @tuki_cat said in Amiberry & Ipac:

                  Hi,

                  Great - if I can help with anything else just let me know.

                  @herb_fargus I have deleted the long post, in future I'll use Pastebin

                  You couldn't post it up on pastebin now could you, so that I can refer back to it when programming a solution please?

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                    tuki_cat
                    last edited by

                    Sure, here is the link

                    https://pastebin.com/ZNDwuz05

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                    • HoraceAndSpiderH
                      HoraceAndSpider
                      last edited by

                      OK, i've made a commit to the controller branch that uses the ipac layout you gave me. Would appreciate if you could test it.

                      Two things here: firstly, this isnt permanent, and i will need to add a layer to read the keys in from the retroarch config.

                      Secondly, there is a bug atm with selecting a the correct input device on the dropdown... just persist with different combinations and eventually it should allow you to set port 1 as 'Kd Arrows as Joystick' (it actually does more than just arrows and should allow you the full range of CD32 buttons if you use the right joystick mode.

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                        tuki_cat
                        last edited by

                        Hi,

                        I can test it tomorrow for you.

                        How do I go about doing this this? Do I need to update Amiberry in Retropie and then test, or do I need to install another way?

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                        • HoraceAndSpiderH
                          HoraceAndSpider @tuki_cat
                          last edited by

                          @tuki_cat you'd need to download from GitHub and compile but I will upload a binary and how-to for you tomorrow !

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                          • HoraceAndSpiderH
                            HoraceAndSpider @tuki_cat
                            last edited by HoraceAndSpider

                            @tuki_cat
                            from the command line run the following:

                            [old link removed]

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                              tuki_cat
                              last edited by

                              Thanks, I'll test tonight

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                                tuki_cat
                                last edited by tuki_cat

                                Hi,

                                I have tried the above but can only get so far.

                                After I do the above I can run amiberry but only if I run it from a disk image, I can't run it from the +start amiberry prompt. If i run it from the prompt it attempts to start bu then drops back the retropie Amiga game selection screen.

                                If I run it from a disk image it runs fine, but I have tried the joystick but nothing works. When I press F12 to enter the GUI it then exits back to the retropie Amiga game selection screen. It appears something is preventing the emulator from entering the GUI.

                                I then removed amiberry from my pi and made sure all the configs for amiberry were deleted. I then did a fresh clean install of amiberry and then I run your commands above, this was to make sure there were no issues resulting from where I had been messing around with amiberry in the past - but the results were the same as above.

                                Any ideas?i

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                                • HoraceAndSpiderH
                                  HoraceAndSpider
                                  last edited by HoraceAndSpider

                                  oh, you are missing a file that is required, becuase you have not installed from source ... you need the 'data/quickstart.ico' and 'controller.png' otherwise it won't run.

                                  cd /opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/data
                                  wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HoraceAndTheSpider/amiberry/controller/data/quickstart.ico
                                  wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HoraceAndTheSpider/amiberry/controller/data/controller.png
                                  sudo chown -hR pi:pi /opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/

                                  should sort this

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                                    tuki_cat
                                    last edited by

                                    It's working now. I'll do some tests and let you know how I get on

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                                    • HoraceAndSpiderH
                                      HoraceAndSpider @tuki_cat
                                      last edited by

                                      @tuki_cat said in Amiberry & Ipac:

                                      It's working now. I'll do some tests and let you know how I get on

                                      great! at the moment, i just need to know if that layout method would work before i start integrating it with the retroarch cfg file

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                                        tuki_cat
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                                        Hi,

                                        Sorry no luck with the controls. I have manage to set Joystick Port 1 to "kb arrows as joystick", this gets the joystick working but none of the fire buttons are functioning. I have tried setting the type to "default", "joystick" and "CD32".

                                        However some key presses must be registered because.................

                                        I am testing on Turrican II and the "ctrl" key on my IPAC (this would be "input_player1_a" in retroarch, and is usually the first fire button in most emulators) starts the game, but it is not registering as a fire button. The "space" key on my IPAC (this would be "input_player1_x" in retroarch) is registering as the space key in game.

                                        I have done a fair about of messing about with control config, including trying the custom config keys setup, but this doesn't help. I am happy to do some more testing but at the moment I am a bit stuck and don't know what other settings I can try to get the fire buttons working.

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                                        • HoraceAndSpiderH
                                          HoraceAndSpider @tuki_cat
                                          last edited by HoraceAndSpider

                                          @tuki_cat this could be as simple as a mix up with the sdl keycodes for left/right control etc , so I might and provide you another binary tomorrow :)

                                          At the moment what I have tried to do is hard-code your ipac keys as the emulator defaults for the keyboard mapping mode

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                                            tuki_cat
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                                            @HoraceAndSpider - just let me know when the new binary is ready and i'll happily test it.

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