Does anyone have any advice on how to get the joystick and buttons recognised in AdvMame? I can navigate the PiPlay menu and select things with joystick and button but even after I've configured the controls in the ROMs they aren't recognised. Details of how I set things up are below. Any advice appreciated.

I'm using the Adafruit software. ROMs all work using just the keyboard.

I've tested the controls with a little Python 3 program I wrote and the 4 joystick directions and 4 buttons all work as expected when the GPIO ports are pulled high.

My Raspbian version is wheezy 7.8.

I've run sudo apt-get upgrade and updated the software.

I've installed the programs and libraries to recompile the Adafruit software using

sudo apt-get install git libexpat1 libexpat1-dev libncurses5 libncurses5.dev.

When I run this command again the OS reports I have the latest versions of all 5

components.

I've installed the Adafruit retrogame software and edited the retrogame.c to match the ports I've used and recompiled the software using the make command without errors.

I've added the udev rule to ensure compatibility with the SDL2 library. I added a line to the following file

etc/udev/rules.d/10-retrogame.rules

The line I added was

SUBSYSTEM=="input", ATTRS{name}=="retrogame", ENV{ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD}="1"

I tried to make sure the retrogame program starts as soon as the OS boots by adding the following line just before the exit 0 line of /etc/rc.local

/home/pi/Adafruit-Retrogame/retrogame &

The retrogame software is running because I can navigate the PiPlay menu.