GPIO Joystick

[m1k3ol]

Is this still a valid tutorial? (For mk_arcade_joystick_rpi)

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=83317

It's from like 2014 and older images, I wonder if it's maybe as easy as recalbox now (it got integrated there)...or at least if it's still a standard procedure nowadays...

[simonster]

MK_arcade_joystick driver is available in the Retropie Setup application.

The wiring has ground common on all switches and should be connected to the GPIO in different ways depending on the version of Pi you have

For the original Pi with 26pin header:

https://github.com/recalbox/mk_arcade_joystick_rpi/raw/master/wiki/images/mk_joystick_arcade_GPIOs.png

If you have a Pi with a 40 pin header such as a Pi 2/3 the diagram is : https://github.com/recalbox/mk_arcade_joystick_rpi/raw/master/wiki/images/mk_joystick_arcade_GPIOsb+.png

[m1k3ol]

@simonster thanks a lot!

I was able to find (after a lot of digging) all of this yesterday, but yeah, no tutorial needed anymore other than doing that

It's also worth to mention that doing it only activates 1 arcade stick, it's necessary to sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/mk_arcade_joystick_rpi.conf so that it ends with map=1,2 instead of just 1, that's the option that enables both for the GPIO

Thanks!

[simonster]

@m1k3ol

I did my setup manually, but I saw the option a few months ago.

When you configure input in es, do P1 first, then go back and do P2. This will then map both controllers in the auto configuration script, otherwise it only creates the map for player 1