Control works inside ES, but not in-game

mitu

@TimeDoctor Run the emulator with verbose loggine enabled from the Runcommand launch menu and then upload the /dev/shm/runcommand.log to pastebin.com, it should contain more information about how the controllers are detected by RetroArch.

TimeDoctor

@mitu https://pastebin.com/nwYX5sTa

mitu

@TimeDoctor said in Control works inside ES, but not in-game:

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This looks like a supported controller (the conf file loaded seems to be here - https://github.com/libretro/retroarch-joypad-autoconfig/blob/master/udev/DragonRise_X-Box_Gamepad_with_Force_Feedback.cfg) and there doesn't seem to be other gamepads in place.
Can you try with Mame2003 or FBAlpha ?

EDIT: since your joystick auto-conf is loaded from the RetroArch's repository, the RetroPie configuration for mappings will not apply - i.e. Start + Hotkey to exit, Hotkey + Y for RGUI, etc. will not work.

TimeDoctor

@mitu said in Control works inside ES, but not in-game:

Can you try with Mame2003 or FBAlpha

I've done that and neither worked, unfortunately. Is there anything else I could try?

mitu

@TimeDoctor Remove the auto-configuration profiles downloaded from the RA's repository (from /home/zjs/.config/retroarch/autoconfig/) and re-configure your gamepad in Emulationstation again. This should generate an auto-configuration file in the same folder. Try this way and see if it works better.

TimeDoctor

Sorry for the late reply, I've tried removing the auto-configuration profiles a few times and that hasn't helped

TimeDoctor

@blanca12 that is the most frustrating part of this, I feel like it's some kind of issue with ubuntu itself. This all worked until I reinstalled everything, but I had to reinstall for other issues I had.

TimeDoctor

I have no idea what I changed, I guess the input_driver backend in the retroarch config, but I was able to enter the retroarch configuration gui from ES and bind the keys for my arcade inputs. But now I can't exit games without hitting escape on the keyboard, attempting to rebind the quit retroarch hotkey to start and select doesn't seem possible right now.

mitu

But now I can't exit games without hitting escape on the keyboard, attempting to rebind the quit retroarch hotkey to start and select doesn't seem possible right now.

This is maybe because you haven't defined a Hotkey in your configuratio, so RetroArch uses the default keyboard bindings (ESC is mapped to exit).

TimeDoctor

@mitu said in Control works inside ES, but not in-game:

But now I can't exit games without hitting escape on the keyboard, attempting to rebind the quit retroarch hotkey to start and select doesn't seem possible right now.

This is maybe because you haven't defined a Hotkey in your configuratio, so RetroArch uses the default keyboard bindings (ESC is mapped to exit).

See above, I can only define the hotkey in RGUI (if that’s the retroarch green screen) if I lose another button to this function. For example, it won’t let me press the buttons I use for start + select.

None of this would be a problem if the ES input configuration were passed to retroarch properly.

mitu

@TimeDoctor said in Control works inside ES, but not in-game:

None of this would be a problem if the ES input configuration were passed to retroarch properly.

My suspicion is that you've reset the RetroArch configuration and it doesn't look for the gamepad auto-configuration file in the folder where Emulationstation saves it (/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads).