Controls Problem with Nintendo DS

Gokilz

Hello,

I've problem with Nintendo DS emulator. Only D-PADs controls works fine with the Nintendo DS emulator.

Pi Model or other hardware: 4B with Waveshare GamePi43
RetroPie Version Used (eg 3.6, 3.8.1, 4.1 - do not write latest): 4.8
Built From: Pre made SD Image on RetroPie website
Controller used: GamePi43 (mkarcadejoystick)
Emulator: nds (DraStic)

what can I do, so that the controls can work with nds emulator?

Best regards,
Zef

Genos98

@Gokilz try to connect a keyboard on it, open a game on drastic, press m on the keyboard to bring up the drastic menu, then pick configure controls, and finally manually assign the buttons. Make sure to save the configurations after.

Gokilz

@Genos98 thank you. Now the controls works fine.
I have another question:

Can I rotate the screen also?
how can I quit from the game without keyboard? Normally I can press select + start to return to main menu

Genos98

@Gokilz Drastic has a vertical and horizontal screen options which you can change in the configurations. For the second question you need to assign the menu to a button which can be done through configure controls. For me I did assign the menu key to my controller's hotkey so that everytime I pressed that button the menu should pop up and then I exit from there.

retropieuser555

@Gokilz you can't rotate the screen in drastic no. So anything like hotel dusk or rhythm factory isn't playable. Well they are playable, just at a 90' angle

Lolonois

For screen and mouse/analog rotate (book mode), see here for a workaround:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29456/solved-nds-lr-desmume2015-rotate-also-mouse-axis-when-video-is-rotated

It relies on lr-desmume2015. It is a workaround as the book mode issue is neither implemented yet in the lr-desmume2015 nor in retroarch.

@Gokilz would you mind adding the rotate/book mode aspect to the subject on your initial post? This would make it easier to find this topic in future when searching for a similar issue as yours.