Daphne . Arcade joystick orientation wrong.

jchannell

@pjft Tried the instructions here to increase the swap file, but no luck. https://wpitchoune.net/tricks/raspberry_pi3_increase_swap_size.html

EDIT: Turns out I edited the wrong part of the file. Just got past the install hump, so I'll troubleshoot further as I go. Thanks for all the help!

jchannell

@pjft Now that it is finally installed, I'm still getting the same joystick issues on Dragon's Lair, even with changing the .ini file.

Just to check, does your repo have the changes that Grant made? The main reason I was recompiling was because his GitHub no longer appears to be active.

pjft

@jchannell My repo does, but without knowing exactly what issues you're facing, it's hard to understand what you're going for :)

Use this branch:

https://github.com/pjft/daphne-emu/tree/grant2258-controls

jchannell

@pjft Understandable. Probably just got lost in all of the troubleshooting. :D

I'm using a Dragonrise USB encoder and a Sanwa joystick (5 pin single cable) and getting the same wacky joystick routing. Going to try installing from that repo. Thanks!

EDIT: Actually, I'm not entirely sure what I'm supposed to do with Grant's code here. If I follow the steps I outlined, should that script have been installed or is there something else I need to do?

jchannell

@pjft I was able to install from that branch using this string:

cd /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/
sudo ./retropie_packages.sh daphne clean
sudo git clone --branch grant2258-controls "https://github.com/pjft/daphne-emu.git" tmp/build/daphne
cd tmp/build/daphne
sudo git checkout retropie
cd /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup
sudo ./retropie_packages.sh daphne build
sudo ./retropie_packages.sh daphne install
sudo ./retropie_packages.sh daphne configure

But the controls are still not working correctly. Up and down seem to be reversed, and it's hard to tell if that's the same with right and left. I'm about to rip my hair out here.

pjft

@jchannell I genuinely don't quite know what to make of this - knowing that there isn't any logging in place to be better able to troubleshoot it, and not knowing if the issue is with the joystick setup, with daphne, or something else, it's very much a shot in the dark, apologies.

In your instructions, all seems reasonable, though I'm wondering why are you checking out the "retropie" branch? That seems off - you want the grant2258-controls one.

I could recommend jstest and such to determine what values are being received by the system, and then adjusting the controls file, but if none of this helps, I'd probably recommend looking into Hypseus, which is under more active development and has better controls support from my understanding: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/18505/new-hypseus-and-lr-daphne-to-add-on-retropie-setup/472

jchannell

@pjft said in Daphne . Arcade joystick orientation wrong.:

In your instructions, all seems reasonable, though I'm wondering why are you checking out the "retropie" branch? That seems off - you want the grant2258-controls one.

Oh... that is likely why! This is my first time working with this kind of compiling, so I wasn't sure what that code meant. Will give that a shot next.

Also, just wanted to say thank you so much on helping out here and putting up with people like me struggling.

pjft

@jchannell By all means. Do let us know how it goes.

DirtBagXon

@jchannell said in Daphne . Arcade joystick orientation wrong.:

But the controls are still not working correctly. Up and down seem to be reversed, and it's hard to tell if that's the same with right and left. I'm about to rip my hair out here.

Hi @jchannell , if you try hypseus (in RetroPie-Setup 'exp ' packages)

You will have the ability to swap the joystick axis directions. This was not possible in the original Daphne without physically inverting the joystick.

Take a look at the example config file here:

https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus-singe/blob/master/doc/hypinput.ini

You probably want to play with the 4th field in the top four AXIS options. Altering the '+' and '-' to suit.

KEY_UP = SDLK_UP 0 0 -002
KEY_DOWN = SDLK_DOWN 0 0 +002
KEY_LEFT = SDLK_LEFT 0 0 -001
KEY_RIGHT = SDLK_RIGHT 0 0 +001

Edit: Looking back at this thread it seems that the work-a-round was to use the D-Pad rather than analog axis. Using the above hypseus config, you should be able to adjust/assign either: 3rd field for D-Pad, 4th field for analog axis.

superdan

Hi guys, my daphne controller still dont work (almost left right)
up and down seems ok.
Any suggestion?
Thanks

mitu

@superdan Please don't bump old topics. Open a new topic and explain your issue, providing the info asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
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