Laptop install, cant stop keyboard from being player 1 on PSX

Richyuk

@mitu Thanks for the reply. No defaults have been changed.

Emulationstation classes my Keyboard as a gamepad it seems.

The problem I have is that when I start a game on PSX it only allows input from the keyboard, the gamepads are totally dead in the water.

mitu

Can you run the game with verbose logging ? Use the Runcommand launch menu to toggle debug logging when starting the game, exit the game and the post the contents of /dev/shm/runcommand.log to pastebin.com to take a look.

Richyuk

Sure, done. Please see here; https://pastebin.com/a76jk10B

mitu

It looks like the Sony Vaio is considered as a gamepad 1 and the ACRUX gamepad is 2nd.

...
[INFO] [udev]: Plugged pad: Sony Vaio Keys (4173:0) on port #0.
[INFO] [udev]: Pad #0 (/dev/input/event4) supports 0 force feedback effects.
[INFO] [Autoconf]: 1 profiles found.
[INFO] [Autoconf]: no profiles found for Sony Vaio Keys (4173/0).
[INFO] [udev]: Plugged pad: ACRUX USB GAME PAD (4544:21763) on port #1.
[INFO] [udev]: Pad #1 (/dev/input/event12) supports 0 force feedback effects.
[INFO] [Autoconf]: 1 profiles found.
[INFO] [Autoconf]: selected configuration: /home/richard/.config/retroarch/autoconfig/ACRUX USB GAME PAD.cfg
[INFO] [Joypad]: Found joypad driver: "udev".
...

Try adding to your /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroach.cfg:

input_player1_joypad_index = 2
input_player2_joypad_index = 3

and see if it makes a difference.

Richyuk

@mitu No luck, new log output here; https://pastebin.com/cdYGRuQY

:(

mitu

Can you open the RGUI (press F1 on the keyboard) and then go to Settings -> Input -> Port 1 Binds and check the Device Index option ? If it's not one of the gamepads, try to cycle between the available values to set to your gamepad.

Richyuk

Thanks I’ll try! Is there another way to access that menu? My keyboard doesn’t work on retropie, only in the games 😂

mitu

You should press F1 while in-game to open up the RGUI (RetroArch's menu).

Richyuk

@mitu Thanks for your continued support.

So this was configured (keyboard)

https://postimg.cc/tYKv1Wp7

I changed it to this (joypad)

https://postimg.cc/21LB99b8

(I know the config is saving, I enabled save on edit, and because I set another property (Audio mute), and that took fine when I started a game.

However when I start the emulator I see this;

https://postimg.cc/2bSWGkng

And the joypad still doesn't work in game, but the keyboard does.

mitu

@Richyuk said in Laptop install, cant stop keyboard from being player 1 on PSX:

And the joypad still doesn't work in game, but the keyboard does.

Even if you change the Port 1 bindings and assign the gamepad to it ?

Richyuk

@mitu yep!

mitu

Does this happen for PS1 only or for all game systems ? Some PS1 games which have analog pad support will not work when the gamepad is not configured as such - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-1/#the-controller-problem-digital-only-analog.

xboxiso

Was this ever resolved? I have run into a very similar issue with my Sony Vaio SVE1511RFXB laptop.

Clyde

Since it wasn't mentioned here before, the joystick selection script by @meleu may be worth a try. It works very reliably for me.

xboxiso

@Clyde Thank you. I installed this per the link you provided, but Joystick Selection does not appear for me under Manage experimental packages. I am on lubuntu 20.04 and using RetroPie X86. Did you install this on RetroPie X86 or a rasberrypi? Unfortunately this didn't work for me on linux. It does seem that this could resolve the issue I'm experiencing if it's possible to install this on linux.

Clyde

After the installation, your "Retropie" menu in Emulation Station should have a new entry "Joystick Selection". (edit: After reading the instructions myself again, you're right, it should appear in the experimental packages).

I'm using it on my Raspberry Pi 3B, my Pi 4B, on a normal X86 pc running Kubuntu 18.04, and on my Laptop running KDE Neon 18.04. So, I can confirm that it works on Linux for X86, but I don't have any experience on (K)Ubuntu 20.04 yet.

What exact steps did you take to install the script?

xboxiso

Hi Clyde. I'm really glad to hear it works on RetroPieX86. Perhaps I just did something wrong then. I'm totally new to both RetroPie and Linux. All I did to install was enter this into terminal:

wget -O- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection/master/install.sh" | sudo bash

Was there more I was supposed to do?

Thank you so much for all of your help.

Clyde

That should be all, actually. And you really don't have an entry „Joystick Selection“ under „Retropie“ in Emulation Station afterwards? You should have these files:

/home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/joystick_selection.sh
/home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/icons/joystick_selection.png
/opt/retropie/configs/all/joystick-selection.cfg
/opt/retropie/supplementary/joystick-selection
/opt/retropie/supplementary/joystick-selection/joystick_selection.sh
/opt/retropie/supplementary/joystick-selection/jsfuncs.sh
/opt/retropie/supplementary/joystick-selection/jslist                                                                                                                                                                                              
/opt/retropie/supplementary/joystick-selection/retropie.pkg

edit: You can list all related files and directories with this command:

locate "joystick" | grep --color=never selection

(I chose this over a simple locate joystick-selection to get the "joystick_selection" with an underscore, too. The --color=never is to avoid the coloured output from grep.)

xboxiso

@Clyde I looked and can't find these directories on my system. I installed this by entering the above mentioned line in terminal. RetroPie was not running. Was I supposed to add that line in RetroPie somehow?

xboxiso

I just tried it again and can't find those files.

Attached is a screenshot of the output after running that code.