Two Player Joystick showing up as One

dirty_monkee

Re: Conflicting joysticks?
Right.. So I have a PC running Ubuntu (18.04 LTS) with retropi installed.

My two player arcade joysticks (THT two player Arcade/Xin-Mo) are only registering as one joystick (Up is up on both players and down is down on both players and so on). I have tried updating Kernel but it didn't work. When it came to patching it was asking which file I wanted to patch and didn't know where to go from there.

I tried the solution provided by @absolut1978 but once I ran "cat /sys/mmodules/usbhid/parameters/quirks" yet it failed to find folder/directory. The solution provided by @com_gunner "sudo rmmod usbhid && sudo modprobe usbhid quirks=0x0810:0xe301:0x00000040" using by own vendor/product ID worked and showed two players yet don't save upon restart/reboot.

Please help.

I am at my wits end. I have made, painted & hand drawn cabinet art spending a lot of my time on this project to come to a complete stop here.

mitu

@dirty_monkee said in Two Player Joystick showing up as One:

I tried the solution provided by @absolut1978 but once I ran "cat /sys/mmodules/usbhid/parameters/quirks" yet it failed to find folder/directory.

It's /sys/modules/usbhid/parameters/quirks (single m after /sys), you probably mis-spelled it.

The solution provided by @com_gunner "sudo rmmod usbhid && sudo modprobe usbhid quirks=0x0810:0xe301:0x00000040" using by own vendor/product ID worked and showed two players yet don't save upon restart/reboot.

To set kernel module parameters permanently you create a new file in the /etc/modprobe.d folder with the format

options usbhid quirks=0x0810:0xe301:0x00000040

So create a file /etc/modprobe.d/xin-mo.conf with the proper contents (i.e. add the correct verndor/model ids to the quirks module parameter), save it and reboot.

dirty_monkee

@mitu
Perfect that worked. The directory was “module” not“modules” however....

I’ve setup joysticks in emulation station and can navigate the menu but can’t set the hot key button (to exit game) as a button from joystick 2 (Button 11 on player 2)

Nor once the game has loaded can I envoke retroarch settings in order to bind/setup player two controls. (Can’t do this from keyboard either)

Thanks for you help so far

mitu

@dirty_monkee Only Player 1 can start the RetroArch GUI. I don't have such a controller, but I my guess would be that you can't create - at least from the ES configuration GUI - different configurations for both gamepads. Once you configured the 1st player, the same configuration applies to the 2nd (and vice-versa), because both identify with the same name.

dirty_monkee

@mitu
Yeah. I have tried configuring player one but still can’t get the retroarch settings up once in a game. Player two does not automatically set up.

Perhaps I should cut my losses and purchase another joystick encoder?

mitu

@dirty_monkee said in Two Player Joystick showing up as One:

Perhaps I should cut my losses and purchase another joystick encoder?

I don't have any experiences with this - it should work I think - , but maybe other forum members can help diagnose the issue here. It could be just a configuration problem.
Can you post the RetroArch log file (/dev/shm/runcommand.log) with verbose logging enabled ?

dirty_monkee

@mito
Thanks for your help so far. I’m going to have another crack at it later when work stops getting in the way. Failing me getting it working is the forum etiquette to start a new post or continue with this one?

mitu

@dirty_monkee You can just continue on this one, though I'd suggest editing your 1st post and changing the title to include Xin-Mo and arcade controls, this might catch the attention of some forum regulars that have experience with these gamepads.

dirty_monkee

@mitu
Right so I am struggling to change the title of the first post.

I have now successfully setup joysticks for both players and can exit emulator and retroarch GUI. I now have a problem with the input for player two saving. I can save other options but not these I try to save game remap and configs I do get an error that it cant save to opt/retropie/configs/fba/retroarch.cfg

Once I exit the game and relaunch it don't save the inputs.

mitu

@dirty_monkee You have enabled the Config Save on Exit. Don't do that, instead use the Core/Game control remapping feature in RetroArch to save your controller configurations - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/#core-input-remapping.

dirty_monkee

@mitu
So I’ve had some levels of success with this via the link and YouTube videos I’ve been watching by Floob.

I think my problem is this. I have run jstest for both player js0 and js1 and found all the buttons (0-9 for player one & 0-10 for player). Retroarch is showing numbers over 10 (14, 16 etc) so I can’t set, for example button 6 to gamepad button C!

dirty_monkee

Right!!

If there’s anyone still there.

I’ve managed to change them so retroarch sees my numbered buttons. It still won’t save. When I go into input for user two and click bind default all it changes to how I want it. But it just won’t save!!