PiFBA buttons don't match jtest

meleu

@camo200sx
Do you have a reason to use the pifba?

Actually I love pifba, but I think it's a good choice only for Raspberry Pi 1 and zero owners (my situation). The lr-fba[-next] is a better choice for raspi2 and 3 owners.

Oh... Let's talk about your problem... You should tell us what controller you are using. I know that some bluetooth controllers seems to have different numbers in jstest and in retroarch/pifba...

camo200sx

Thanks for your help again Meleu. the roms I have only work with Pifba and not lr-fba-next, that is why I wanted to get it to work. My other option is try and find compatible versions to run with lr-fba-next.

I'm using a xin-mo if that helps

edmaul69

lr-fba-next, lr-mame2003 and lr-mamlibretro's controls dont match either. its kinda annoying that i have to make a config that only works on 1 controller. but hey it is a lot better than nothing so i cant complain

camo200sx

@edmaul69 said in PiFBA buttons don't match jtest:

lr-fba-next, lr-mame2003 and lr-mamlibretro's controls dont match either. its kinda annoying that i have to make a config that only works on 1 controller. but hey it is a lot better than nothing so i cant complain

Its really annoying for me because I have used clrmamepro to rebuild a set of roms that are for lr-fba-next so I can avoid using pifba, but I just loaded some onto the pi and they don't work with lr-fba-next but do with pifba - what the...?

A Former User

Did you happen to come by a solution to this issue. I have the same thing going on, I have a bar top set up with an Ipac 2 for my two player cabinet. Playing Street Fighter III, 3rd Strike using lr-Fba-next it works perfect, top row punching and bottom row kicking, but then when I use the same setup for PiFBA the buttons appear to be upside down or just not in a normal config, games like Metal Slug would be better if I can just reconfigure for that game.

FlyingTomahawk

Any news on this issue here?
I have a very hard time too to configure my arcade stick. I need to use pifba since the game runs only with that but as already mentioned the button setup makes absolutely no sense.
I tried to figure out which button is where on my arcade stick trying to assign or change only 1 button at the time but I am getting nowhere. It's like it is randomly switching around everything, no logic behind it. The closest I got to get 3 punches top row and 3 kicks bottom row was this setup inside the fba2x.cfg file.

A_1=0
B_1=2
X_1=5
Y_1=3
L_1=1
R_1=7
START_1=9
SELECT_1=8

This gives me the correct button layout for WP, SP and SK. (WP = weak punch, SP = strong punch, SK = strong kick) logically I would need to figure out the last 3 but changing anything from this point on messes up everything again. Very frustrating.
I have a A4 paper filled with notes and scribbles kinda feeling like a psycho slow by slow.

Using a Raspberry Pi 3 and a Buffalo Savior Arcade Stick (BSGPAC02BK). Retropie version is 4.1.5.

meleu

@FlyingTomahawk you'll be amazed when you discover a tool named jstest. Google about it. ;-)

edmaul69

@RickSanchez81 you should put all the neo geo roms in the neogeo folder. Then you configure that for all neo geo games. For me in lr-fbanext the controls are wonky and i had to set them up by hand. I seperated the six button fighting games from the rest of the roms because they have a completely different controller layout than everything else so i had to configure them different. So i have neo geo in the neo geo folder. 6 button fighting games in one fba folder and everything else in another fba folder. I have two fba configs in es_systems.cfg so that one looks for roms in fba2.

FlyingTomahawk

@meleu

Thanks a ton man! That helped a lot.
Once I knew what number each button had I was able to set it up correctly.
Not sure the following works for every arcade stick but it did for me.
In the fba2x.cfg I have now the following setup;

A_1=0
B_1=5
X_1=3
Y_1=1
L_1=2
R_1=7
START_1=9
SELECT_1=8
#Joystick axis
JA_LR=0
JA_UD=1

When I access the game menu in Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter by pressing select+L+R you can test the buttons by clicking on "input".
Again thanks a lot. You saved me from more head aches.

meleu

@FlyingTomahawk said in PiFBA buttons don't match jtest:

Not sure the following works for every arcade stick but it did for me.

Unfortunately there's no standard for these numbers. Every manufacturer set them up in different ways. The best way is to use jstest to discover the numbers.

BTW: in some bluetooth controllers the numbers obtained in jstest don't match those used in configs.