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    Arcade control panel mapping questions

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    • caver01C
      caver01 @SammyLJ
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      @sammylj said in Arcade control panel mapping questions:

      so moving forward....
      when i'm in emulation station
      B = Back
      A = Launch
      START = menu
      SELECT = Options

      but 'B' is a player 4 button, 'a' is a player 2 button etc
      where do I go to configure those?

      You are confusing a gamepad A and B with keyboard keys. In Emulation Station, these refer to the player1 gamepad buttons.

      Is there any setup to a trackball or is it straight usb plug in and go?

      Read this documentation. There is a whole section I wrote about spinners and trackballs. It is not hard to setup. Mostly plug and play, some configuration.

      I put a trackball, aim left and aim right buttons just above the trackball for Goldentee. They are 4sw5 and 4sw6. Because those are for 1 game only, I can edit those in the in game control menu.

      My 4-player cocktail style cabinet built as a custom "roadcase"

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        SammyLJ @caver01
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        @caver01 so when in game, if I hold down on player 2(which is f) the screen goes black and the grey box comes up in the middle. It says...

        Launching avps (lr-mame2003) ...
        Press a button to configure
        Errors are logged to /dev/shm/runcommand.log

        The only thing I see mapped to f isn't active
        #Toggles fullscreen.
        #input_toggle_fullscreen = f

        should I send you my cfg file so you can look at it, maybe i'm missing something

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          SammyLJ @caver01
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          @caver01 so if I want to re route the buttons in emulation station is it under the main menu, configure input? The would change the emulation sation buttons but not the in game. right...

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          • caver01C
            caver01 @SammyLJ
            last edited by

            @sammylj
            correct.

            My 4-player cocktail style cabinet built as a custom "roadcase"

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            • caver01C
              caver01 @SammyLJ
              last edited by

              @sammylj said in Arcade control panel mapping questions:

              @caver01 so when in game, if I hold down on player 2(which is f) the screen goes black and the grey box comes up in the middle. It says...

              Launching avps (lr-mame2003) ...
              Press a button to configure
              Errors are logged to /dev/shm/runcommand.log

              The only thing I see mapped to f isn't active
              #Toggles fullscreen.
              #input_toggle_fullscreen = f

              should I send you my cfg file so you can look at it, maybe i'm missing something

              I am not familiar with this coming up in-game. Runcommand dialog appears briefly as you launch a game from Emulation Station.

              My 4-player cocktail style cabinet built as a custom "roadcase"

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                SammyLJ @caver01
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                @caver01 right so when press down it comes up or hold down, it stays up

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                  SammyLJ @caver01
                  last edited by

                  @caver01 so I changed the emulation station buttons and it changed the in game buttons as well....

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                    SammyLJ
                    last edited by

                    ok wait a minute
                    this whole time I have been changing /all/retroarch.cfg
                    should I have been changing /mamelibretro/retroarch.cfg

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                      SammyLJ
                      last edited by SammyLJ

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                      so I got everything to work in game. I even figured out how to exit from the games. Escape alone doesn't seem to work but player 1 select(num5) is set to be the hot key and that plus escape backs out of games. That seems to be the only way I can get it to work. The runcommand no longer comes up when I hold player 2 down not sure what it did but I changed some stuff and it worked.

                      so we are basically all good and playing.
                      I wish I could change the emulation station menu buttons but when I do it changes everything.

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                      • caver01C
                        caver01 @SammyLJ
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                        @sammylj Hmm. That escape exit situation sounds like you still have hotkeys enabled. Scan through your retroarch.cfg for hotkey and set it to "nul" or comment out the setting. I am running with a dedicated exit (escape) and I don't need to press anything else, just my single exit button.

                        My 4-player cocktail style cabinet built as a custom "roadcase"

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