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      screechyboy79
      last edited by screechyboy79

      Hi Everyone,

      I have my XinMo Arcade controller working perfectly across most consoles in ES but for the really retro one the ZX spectrum. I am more than aware due to my age that the spectrum ran off a keyboard but id love to configure it to use my XinMo so i can dispense with the keyboard when building my cabinet.

      Does anyone by any chance have a copy of there config file for the ZX spectrum emulator? Or any guidance with how to edit the zxspectrum retroarch.cfg file to work with XinMo?

      Thanks in advance

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      • senkunS
        senkun
        last edited by senkun

        Speccy! This one brings back a ton of memories. A lot of zx games use a bucketload of buttons and be near impossible to map them all. That said, there are also a lot of games that are just your bog standard up, down, left, right, shoot, jump/special and that should be easy to map just like any other game.

        Tricky bit is the tape loader configuration which needs to be setup and mapped to start a game if I recall. Oh wait, and there's the select input bit in every game (eg: Kensington, kbd, etc.) which are not standardized so things are pretty complicated. I never got round to it but yeah I'd be interested too if anyone can just write up a nice guide for "keyboard free" ZX Spectrum gaming on the Pi!

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        • BuZzB
          BuZz administrators
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          can use lr-fuse (currently our default emulator)

          some instructions here: https://github.com/libretro/fuse-libretro

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