Mame4all no directional inputs detected

benlefou87

Hello. After setting up my Pi0 with the latest version of Retropie I have hit a wall, I have everything setup and working fine except for Mame4all. I'm using a Xbox 360 arcade stick which works flawlessly with Emulation Station and FBA, however when using Mame4all I get no response from the joystick, all other buttons work fine. The TAB menu is not registering any inputs from the stick but registers all other buttons. When using the other version of MAME in the Pi0 package the stick works great but the emulation is very poor.

After searching the internet for hours and hours I cannot find anything helpful, any threads which mention the same problem either have no responses or the OP scraps the stick and uses something else. It looks to me as if the stick is acting as the D-pad which Mame4all won't recognise? Someone made a patch for my stick (Hori EX2) but the thread doesn't tell me how to use it very clearly, just to recompile MAME. I have no idea at all where to start, I have never used Linux before.

Any help is appreciated, it's driving me crazy!

Beretta9

Press tab on your keyboard to bring up the mame settings.
Set your controls there.

benlefou87

@Beretta9 thanks but if you read my post, Tab let's me change inputs but when inputting up down left right nothing registers within MAME.

sirhenrythe5th

@benlefou87 I had a similar problem using AdvMame when connecting one of my Mortal Kombat-Fightsticks.
In my case editing the config-file via the sudo nano-command did the thing.
I had to change the "joystick_input=auto" to "joystick_input=raw".
After that, the joystick of the Arcade-Board was recognized in the TAB-Menu as "D-HAT (up, down, left & right)" and i was finally able to play with the sticks.
I never changed it back to "auto" because the PS3-Controllers, which i also use for mame, work also with Input set to "raw".

Don´t know if this also helps with MAME4all, but may be worth a try ;)