Mapping arcade controls for pinball

mitu

What Pinball game/on which system ?

akav05

@quicksilver I would have to look into that as I have on the front of the machine 2 female usb sockets for connecting wired controllers one for each player when playing my N64 roms as the arcade controls are not suitable for that system. On all my games the 2 side buttons are not actually assigned to any button as there is no need for them. They are only assigned a button solely in the pinball games. But yes you are right in saying it is a player 2 button trying to be used as a player 1 button for that particular game.

quicksilver

@akav05 If they arent used for anything else why not connect them both to player one?

akav05

@mitu the system is MAME I would have to turn on my system to see the exact one and also the game name. I’ll get it up and running soon as I get in from work ans tell u.

akav05

@quicksilver the cable is not long enough to connect to the player one encoder. It is possible to buy the micro connecter cables in longer versions?

quicksilver

@akav05 I have to think you can. If not, just buy some same gauge wire and splice it yourself.

akav05

@quicksilver when thinking bout it, it does sound like the easiest solution to extend the cable and add the button as player 1. I’ll see can I source longer cables.

mitu

It you're using a MAME emulator, try configuring the inputs through the MAME input menu, they're not bound to RetroArchs' one-gamepad-one-player rule. Press Tab while in game and try to configure the inputs - for that game in particular.

akav05

@mitu sorry for the late reply jus back from vacation. I will try that an see as trying to source longer cable has being troublesome.

akav05

@mitu hey thanks so much. Just finally got the chance to get back on the arcade machine and using your method I was able to map the buttons to the left and right paddles respectively and now I can play the pinball game the way I wanted to. Cheers