pifba trick: custom button configs for different games)

Polezi

@meleu Yes when I load with normal pifba the game works great

caver01

@meleu This is clever. I don't think to use this capability as much as I should. I tend to drop per-rom configs into the corresponding ROMs directory (which is fine for lr cores), but when you simply need consistency, this is cleaner, and beats running scripts to to copy files around pre and post launch.

meleu

@Polezi could you tell me what game it is? Or any other way to reproduce your issue.

Polezi

@meleu I'm using joystick, a Dragon Rise USB Controller, I use the same configuration of fba2x.cfg and change the numbers, I make all steps, then I click to lauch the game, black screen, don't load the files like the original way. I try copy the file fba2x.cfg and just change your name, don't work too, same problem.

meleu

@Polezi I've tested here on my raspi1 and it seems to work fine. Please, paste the content of the following files in http://codepad.org/ (select the "Plain Text" at the left of text box)

/opt/retropie/configs/fba/emulators.cfg
/opt/retropie/configs/fba/fba2x.cfg
/opt/retropie/configs/fba/pifba-4btns.cfg

footnote: You could paste those files in pastebin or something, but I'm behind a restrictive proxy now and it doesn't block codepad.org...

Polezi

I think that I found the problem, my folder in retropie/emulators/ is pifba not fba, so I will change this, and now I update the fba in retropie setup but now don't show the option for load the game with pifba-4btns, for update I have to remove and install again? I click in update for the source, I'm so close to make work, now back to zero

meleu

@Polezi If you still need my help, please provide the info I asked above.

Polezi

@meleu http://codepad.org/e7dFIg1p 4btns
http://codepad.org/ljt4VBkF emulators
http://codepad.org/vCCD1r8J fba

Don't show anymore the option to choose 4btns for load the game, whats happening?

meleu

@Polezi said in pifba trick: custom button configs for different games):

http://codepad.org/e7dFIg1p 4btns

Man, did you get this file from my old blog?! I think it's a bit outdated! I suggest you to use this file:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meleu/share/master/pifba-4btns.cfg

And for 6 buttons:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meleu/share/master/pifba-6btns.cfg

http://codepad.org/ljt4VBkF emulators

This file is lacking these lines (as explained in the first post of this topic):

pifba-4btns = "/opt/retropie/emulators/fba/pifba --config /opt/retropie/configs/fba/pifba-4btns.cfg %ROM%"
pifba-6btns = "/opt/retropie/emulators/fba/pifba --config /opt/retropie/configs/fba/pifba-6btns.cfg %ROM%"

This is why the 4btns/6btns options are not being offered in runcommand menu.

EDIT: I noticed that the content of those lines are in only one line. Maybe you're editing the file in Notepad/Windows. If you are editing on a Windows environment, use Wordpad rather than notepad.

Polezi

@meleu I donT have the folder fba inside emulators, Just pifba, shouldn't I change this LINE in emulators.cfg? And dont have pifba inside the folder pifba, only fba2x

meleu

@Polezi said in pifba trick: custom button configs for different games):

@meleu I donT have the folder fba inside emulators, Just pifba, shouldn't I change this LINE in emulators.cfg?

You're right. The path has changed since I posted this trick. Please, fix it on your end.

Polezi

@meleu I'm very happy here, the trick works, but I change the line in emulators to pifba-4btns = "/opt/retropie/emulators/pifba/fba2x --config /opt/retropie/configs/fba/pifba-4btns.cfg %ROM%" now let's play KOF

Skinnyboy

Hi @Meleu

I've tried following the steps as set out by you above, but somehow still cant get my controller to work in a NeoGeo emulator. So far, I only have the one game in that particular emulator and it's because none of the other emulators seem to run it.

It's a pain because I'm in the process of building an arcade machine and I'd really like if my controller (joystick and buttons) could work on all the games.

Is there a possibility you could assist me please and I know nothing of programming?

I'm running a RPI 3 b+ with a Dragon Rise inc. controller board.

Thank you in advance.

dankcushions

@Skinnyboy if you have a pi3b+ there is no reason to run pifba. honestly, your best solution is to obtain the right romset for lr-fbalpha (FBA 0.97.2.43) and then use the game zip from that in lr-fbalpha. it will work and the controls will be all set up by default.

Coin Junkie

This emulator works perfectly for the PiZero but I couldn't sort out the controller settings until I found this old thread.This worked perfectly after using the update note from Polezi, thank you and huge thank you to Meleu!