Known issue, but new at this board, please help me?

advertime

Hello,

I'm new to this board and I've looked for similar posts with the same problem, but this is all Chinese for me.

I've downloaded RetroPie and installed it onto my SanDisk 32 GB Ultra micro SD card. Everything worked fine on my RP3. I've also bought the 24" Xcade bartop arcade and buttons from ArcadeControls. So far so good.

When I launch the application the system asks me to configure a controller and he finds every button and joystick. But when I reboot and want to start playing games, my 'start' and 'player 1' buttons don't work.

I've tried to look on this board, google and YouTube for a solution that was very easy for me to understand but could not find it. I'm hoping someone could help me who had the same problem and found an easy solution for it

with kind regards
Stefaan

caver01

@advertime What is the controller you are using? I don't see a 24" bartop on their website. Does it use the X-Arcade BYO Arcade encoder? If so, I think that is a keyboard encoder, so it should be sending keystrokes as input. What happens when you are at a command prompt and you press Start or Player 1? Actually, start usually IS Player 1, and the other key is COIN, which doubles as SELECT on consoles. Anyway, pressing these at a command prompt should result in "1" and "5" at a command prompt. Do the keys work in Emulation Station to bring up the menu? Were they ever mapped correctly at first run? Also, which emulator you are using? If you are using MAME, which one?

advertime

Hello,

I've bought this one. It's the B24C model.

For the controls I've bought these

Buttons: Link

Joysticks: Link

Where can I get the X-Arcade BYO Arcade encoder?

kind regards
Stefaan

caver01

@advertime Sorry. I was confused. You wrote Xcade and I thought you meant X-Aracade.

You still haven't described what controller you are using. I will ask it another way. . . If you follow the wires from your buttons, where to they go? What do they connect to?

advertime

The Ipac you Mean? Its a 2 player Ipac connected to an RP3

caver01

@advertime said in Known issue, but new at this board, please help me?:

The Ipac you Mean? Its a 2 player Ipac connected to an RP3

Precisely. Do you have an IPAC? You never mentioned that until now, and this detail makes all of the difference. Have you done a search for IPAC configuration? There are several good threads, some of which will have important information for you. For example, this thread has been referenced a lot, as well as this one.

advertime

OK will try this
thnx in advance.

Keep you posted
kind regards
Stefaan