How to enable Turbo & Clear button Buffalo SFC USB Controller

BuZz

Thanks for the tips regarding turbo etc.

Regarding config - You don't need to configure retroarch manually - it is automatically configured after setting the controller up in Emulation Station.

tien_huu_1408

@BuZz But how to enable Turbo button? It seems not function in Retroarch. In config input of Retroarch GUI (Select + X) --> Input 1 --> Turbo to assign but I cannot assign button.

BuZz

You can't - it's not a standard button but used to modify the way the controller works. The bit you quoted explained that - I missed that it was a quote from a link.

tien_huu_1408

@BuZz It means I don't need to config Turbo and Clear button anymore. Just click and hold to use it. Right? In my way, I just plugged it and configed via ES GUI. But no option for two buttons. Hope u to explain more.

BuZz

@tien_huu_1408 it's all explained the in quote. They modify the behaviour of the other buttons. It's built into the controller.

tien_huu_1408

@BuZz Would you like to confirm again: It means To apply turbo, press-and-hold Turbo, and press the button to which you want to apply turbo. So enable turbo for button A, press Turbo+A. To turn off turbo for A, you Clear+A. You apply turbo to buttons independently, so you can, for instance, have turbo turned on for buttons A and X, but not B or Y.

Right? But it seems not working

davej

First of all, don't configure the controller as described in your quote. The buttons defined as exit emulator (4) and menu toggle (5) in that configuration are used by some games so you'll want them to function in the game.

The TURBO and CLEAR buttons are really 'auto-fire on' and 'auto-fire off'. They are entirely used within the controller (so they are not reported to the Pi) and are used like this:

To enable auto-fire:
Press and hold the TURBO button.
Press and release the button you want to auto-fire.
Release the TURBO button.

Disabling auto-fire for a button is the same but press CLEAR instead of TURBO.

You can enable auto-fire for all the buttons except the joystick and it works with any combination of having auto-fire or not.

tien_huu_1408

@davej Thanks a lot for your explanation. I will give it a try and make report.

mitu

@shahidkhan11 The site you link has nothing to do with RetroPie or the iBuffalo USB controllers, but with the Buffallo wireless drivers. Furthermore, the site seems lik a classic scam/link-aggregator site.

jonnykesh

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