Setting Up Arcade Controls

nasonjo

Hey All,
I have almost completed setting up a DIY Arcade Build and have a question. Here is my setup:

Dell 1908FPc Monitor, Raspberry Pi 3B+ with a Cana Kit Setup (2.5 Amp Power Supply) running the latest Retropie v4.4 it says on the download page, 32 GB Micro SD Card and Reyann Zero Delay LED USB Encoder, 8 way SANWA Joystick , LED Illuminated Push Buttons.

I bought 2 kits of the buttons/joystick as they came as 1 player kits. Everything is set up and working fine, I wired the two exactly the same and mapped them accordingly.

My question is... I would like to add an LB and RB button for pinball games and 1 player games and planned on mounting the 24mm buttons on both sides of the cabinet... but it would only be for one player... would this mess up my setup for player 2 or would these buttons just not exist for player 2... I wouldnt mind them being mapped to both player 1 and 2 if that is even possible as we just wouldnt use them in a split-screen 2 player game. Is this just as easy as just setting up the LB,RB for Player 1? I'll wire them when i get home from work but just wanted to get some insight before I start connecting wires.

stoney66

Should work fine, not sure on your encoder but mine emulates a keyboard so any buttons (and joysticks) I hook up are mapped to a specific key. If you bind your new buttons for your specific pinball inputs then it will work. Shouldn't impact anything current for player 2.

What pinball emulator are you planning on using, afaik nothing runs that well on the PI but would like to know if thats untrue ;)

nasonjo

Thanks! Not sure what I will use yet... I am new at this, kind of learning my way through it.

Clyde

I can strongly recommend the Crush Pinball series, especially Alien Crush and Devil's Crush (Devil Crash in Japan) for the PC Engine / Turbografx-16. They're often mentioned as maybe the best pinball console games ever made.

Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies are also worth a look. The Amiga versions may be the best because of the music, but the console versions are also quite good as far as I tested them.

I didn't notice any problems running any of them on my non-overclocked Pi 3b non-plus except for the Amiga versions, because I my Pi is only used for arcade and console emulation.