Using Gamepads and Arcade Controls At the same time.

[jxkx18]

Hi all this may be a little hard to explain. I have a cocktail cabinet with a pi 3b+ in it. I want to use gamepads for the system emulators sometimes but I want the arcade controls to be default. Is there any way to quickly switch to a gamepad and then back to arcade controls if I need to??

[Addison]

To create a custom profile for a single console...

Open a game using the target console emulator
Hold the Select button and press X
Choose Controls
Optimize your button configuration as needed
Choose Save Core Remap File

To create a custom profile for a single game...

Open the game you want to create a custom controller profile for
Hold the Select button and press X
Choose Controls
Optimize your button configuration as needed
Choose Save Game Remap File

Hope this helps. :)

[Digriz]

Hi,

I have a 2x USB splitters on 1 on Port 1 & 1 on Port 2, I use a zero delay plugged into Port 1 with a 8bitdo controller and the same for port 2.
I downloaded Joystick selector https://github.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection

Configured all my controllers to use the using the zero delays (aka joystick/arcade buttons) as the default.
Then configured my Dreamcast/PSP/PSX/N64 games to use only the 8bitdo controllers.

Best of both worlds, have analog when it's needed for dreamcast etc and standard arcade controls for MAME/FBN etc.

Happy to contribute.

[jxkx18]

Thanks guys I will work with those ideas. I was just wondering what if I wanted to switch back to arcade controls quick for lets say snes.

[Digriz]

@digriz said in Using Gamepads and Arcade Controls At the same time.:

Hi,

I have a 2x USB splitters on 1 on Port 1 & 1 on Port 2, I use a zero delay plugged into Port 1 with a 8bitdo controller and the same for port 2.
I downloaded Joystick selector https://github.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection

Configured all my emulators to use the using the zero delays (aka joystick/arcade buttons) as the default.
Then configured my Dreamcast/PSP/PSX/N64 games to use only the 8bitdo controllers.

Best of both worlds, have analog when it's needed for dreamcast etc and standard arcade controls for MAME/FBN etc.

Happy to contribute. quick edit.

You could configure SNES to use both arcade and/or controller

[jxkx18]

Ok I deleted to config file for snes and now both arcade and gamepad work at the same time. Thanks a lot for the quick responses.

[Flopsi]

Hello i cant install RetroPie-joystick-selection

Waht can i do ??

Thanks for Help.

[mitu]

@flopsi said in Using Gamepads and Arcade Controls At the same time.:

Waht can i do ??

As the printed error hints - do you have the RetroPie-Setup folder in /home/pi ? How did you install RetroPie ? Please add more info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.