Configuring 2 usb controllers with advmame

kevinlieb

I have one very basic usb controller I want to use for game play in pacman and another that has more buttons and such that I want to use also, as the insert coin and player 1/2 start. Is it possible to configure it to use both controllers at the same time? So far what I tried does not work.

Do I alter the /home/pi/.advance/advmame.rc file directly or the arcade.json file in controller-setup?

I would settle for the simple joystick doing the gameplay and keyboard for insert coin, player 1 player 2 but that does not work either.

Thanks in advance!

mholgatem

ok, so you need to edit /home/pi/.advance/advmame.rc

it's going to be the stuff near the bottom of the file. you can set them up like this:

input_map[p1_left] joystick_digital[0,stick,x,left]
input_map[p1_right] joystick_digital[0,stick,x,right]
input_map[p1_coin1] keyboard[0,lshift]

you can check the documentation here

kevinlieb

Thanks! That was the info I needed. The controller-setup program that comes with my piplay doesn't work with two joysticks, so I have to make these tweaks manually to advmame.rc

mholgatem

cool, no problem.

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