Arcade stick works with all emulators except MAME
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So I'm a budget minded guy. When I find a deal, I try to take advantage. I bought a Mayfair arcade stick last week on Amazon and it came in last night. I plugged it in, went through the EmulationStation configuration, can navigate menus like a champ. I can play SNES, NES, Genesis, FinalBurn Alpha, PSX, etc. For the life of me, I can't get MAME to recognize my inputs from the joystick itself.
I did note that during ES setup I saw the directions on the joystick being identified as HAT0+, HAT0-, HAT1+, and HAT1-. Is it possible that
- MAME won't use what is being sent as hat switch controls
- I can "trick" MAME into reading the hat inputs as joy0
- I should ship the Mayfair stick back and buy a different one
Pi Model or other hardware: Pi 3b with Samsung 32 GB EVO SD card (MB-ME32DA/AM)
Power Supply used: Canakit DCAR-052A5 2.5 A
RetroPie Version Used (eg 3.6, 3.8.1, 4.1 - do not write latest): 4.1
Built From: Pre made SD Image on RetroPie website, retropie-4.1-rpi2_rpi3
USB Devices connected: Keyboard, arcade stick
Controller used: Arcade stick
Error messages received: No message
Log found in /dev/shm/runcommand.log (if relevant): I'm not sure how to retrieve this.
Guide used: Installation guide from retropie.org.uk
File: I don't know if this applies
Emulator: MAME4ALL
Attachment of config files: Again, unsure how to retrieve
How to replicate the problem: Attempt to configure controls in MAME -
@tygr20 standalone mame4all? Any reason not to use lr-mame2003? It should work better.
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@BuZz is this as simple as changing the emulator on a rom in the start up config screen? The "Press a key to config" screen? I've installed multiple MAME emulators in RP after finding I needed to change the version being used on specific ROMs.
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@tygr20 You will need a matching romset - and you may need to put them in another location.
Please have a look at https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Arcade/
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@BuZz Thanks. I'll give this a shot as soon as I get home this evening.
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@BuZz well, I tried MAME 2003. Still no luck. When I push the stick in any direction, MAME isn't registering the input. Still works everywhere except MAME.
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Scratch that- it IS working. Turns out when I changed the default emulator it wasn't saving in the config menu. Thanks @BuZz !
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