Stella B button

hhcasey

I've used a 3b+ and some old parts and made a friend a controller.
She is insistent that she wants to play Atari with Atari-style controllers (made in china).
She bought a couple and provided them.
I've got them hooked up to the usb ports.
They are also hooked up with an ipac mini with Ultimarc joystick, buttons, trackball and spinner.
I specifically have 4 additional buttons to handle select, start, pause and exit.

My problem is that when I configure in Emulation Station, it won't let me skip the A button and configure only a B button.

I tried swapping the A and B buttons in RetroPie config and that didn't work for me.

I assume I could also use the file manager or putty and go to the Emulation Station config and manually change button 1. I just don't remember where those files are. It's been several years since I've messed with this controller or linux for that matter.

Have any suggestions?

mitu

A and B cannot be skipped, otherwise the navigation in EmulationStation will not be possible. You can, of course, modify the configuration for EmulationStation in $HOME/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg.

hhcasey

@mitu

I deleted the line for the a button and left only the up, left, right, and down buttons.
The line leftover is: <input name="b" type="button" id="0" value="1"/>

It still doesn't work. What am I missing?

mitu

I deleted the line for the a button and left only the up, left, right, and down buttons.

Was the configuration produced by EmulationStation, with the input configuration dialog ? Please post then entire config, not just a line.

It still doesn't work. What am I missing?

Is the button #0 the B button ? If you test the joysticj with jstest, is the button 0 the one that's toggled when you press the B button ?

EDIT: btw, what do you expect to happen when presing the B button ? It's used by EmulationStation as 'back', exiting from a menu or from a system. You need to press A in order to launch a game.

hhcasey

@mitu

I should have been more clear.

I have an A and B button on my control panel. I use those for navigation and most cores.
I've got these two Atari sticks connected to it only for using retroarch lr-stella2014 core.
It's only the lr-stella2014 config I need to change.
As I say, it's been several years since I got into the details of linux and retropie and I don't recall how to send a file from the pi to my pc to attach.

My Player 1 B button is configured for "alt" and 2 B is "s".
Right now the lr-stella2014 core isn't recognizing any button inputs.
The directional inputs are working fine.

What do you suggest?

mitu

@hhcasey said in Stella B button:

What do you suggest?

I sugges you open open the RetroArch menu from P1 and look under the 'Controls' quick menu. The additional joysticks may be pushed to P2/P3 and that's why they're not working. Change which joystick is mapped to each player so that P1/P2 are not mapped to (I assume) the Ultimark joystic but to your Atari joysticks. Then check/change the button assignment for each player until they work and finally save a core remap so that you don't have to do this each time RetroArch is started.

EDIT: if the RetroArch input configuration proves too cumbersome, maybe give the standalone emulator (Stella) a try.

hhcasey

@mitu

Installing Stella was the trick.
Thank you for your help.
I know she's going to enjoy playing River Raid with the correct kind of controller.