Getting mame4all to read joystick and buttons?

piplayah

I have a joystick and six buttons set up with retrogame

When testing them with ./retrogame I get the following:

left: ^[[C
right: ^[[D
up: ^[[B
down: ^[[A

red: left_ctrl
green: left_alt
black: space
yellow: left_shift
blue: z
white: x

How can I get mame4all to recognize these button pushes?

Jamesbeat

I don't know what your experience level is, so please don't be offended at me suggesting something that you may feel is obvious...

Start a game, then hit 'tab'.
This will bring up a menu, where you can edit the inputs either for that specific game, or (more importantly in your case) globally.

Then you just go through and 'teach' Mame what you want it to use for up, down, left, right, button 1, button 2 etc etc.

This is also useful if you want to play a game that has an unusual control setup (eg Robotron). In that case, select 'this game', and teach Mame the controls that you want to use for that specific game.
Mame will then generate a config file just for that game with your customized control setup.

piplayah

I have attempted to do that via the Tab key. I can see why this needs to be configured from inside MAME4ALL, the cfg files in /home/pi/pimame/emulators/mame4all-pi/cfg/ are all binary.

When I am in the Tab menu, clicking the 'Input (general)' setup does nothing but close the menu, so instead I click the 'Input (this game)'... even though I'd like to setup default controls for all games.

When I'm in the 'Input (this game)' I try to change the 'P1 Up' and I use 'up' on my joystick which gives me ^[[B in the terminal. Nothing happens. It doesn't register :(

piplayah

STUPID mistake on my behalf as ALWAYS. I need the init script for retrogame. I thought retrogame was running correctly, but NOOOOO.

How do I configure ./retrogame & to happen on startup?

ian57

easy check this out https://github.com/ian57/Raspicade-Retrogame-2Player-BPlus end of the page

piplayah

Thanks ian57!

LogicallyRogue

Something I have noticed. Raspbian - apparently by default - is configured for en-GB locale - and that includes keyboard layout.

PiPlay also appears to be setup that way. However, when I use raspi-config to change the default locale to en-US.UTF-8, the timezone, and the keyboard layout all the default key layouts work perfectly.

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