Issue using Xbox 360 controller and keyboard

fluxb0x

Hi, I have received my raspberry pi 2 yesterday and I have installed piplay on it, work great! But I can't play with my friend, one with the controller and the other with the keyboard, because we are together 1 player.
Any idea how to resolve this issue ? 1 player with the keyboard and 2 player with the Xbox 360 controller (Logitech ChillStream) ?

gamerdad09

I have this same issue with PiFBA, both keyboard (X-Arcade which emulates keyboard) and Joystick 1 control player one. However in Mame4All-Pi this is not a issue at all.

mholgatem has said it's possibly a issue with the config file.
" You should be able to manually configure your controls by editing /home/pi/pimame/arcade.cfg "
http://pimame.org/forum/discussion/1578/pifba-help-2-controllers-registering-as-player-1#Item_2

fluxb0x

Thanks @gamerdad09. I'll check that after work.

fluxb0x

I'm trying right now but which version of PiPlay did you have ? I've the latest version available but I don't find the "arcade.cfg".

But I found in folder "/home/pi/pimame/controller-setup/output" a file called "snes.json" which contains key mapping for the keyboard and the joystick (an array of object).

[
{
"A": { "keyname": "d", "type": 2, "key": 100, "mod": 0 },
...
...
},
{
"A": { "joy": 0, "button": 1, "joystickID": null, "type": 10 }
...
...
}
]

mholgatem

@fluxb0x - what emulator are you trying to get working with with 2 players?

fluxb0x

@mholgatem I trying to use the SNES emulator

mholgatem

You need to go into /home/pi/pimame/emulators/pisnes/snes9x.cfg and manually change the settings

fluxb0x

I don't understand the file at all. Please can you help me more with this?

mholgatem

The first 2 sections are player 1 and player 2 keyboard controls (each key is mapped to a number, check this page to see what is what, 999 means don't use)

the next 2 sections are player 1 and player 2 joystick controls. These are the buttons and axis mapped to your controller.

If you ran the controller config, then player 1 keyboard and player 1 joystick should both have the correct mappings, you just need to swap the mapping numbers from a player 1 to a player 2.

For example, if you want keyboard to be player 2, swap all of the keyboard player 1 mappings with the keyboard player 2 mappings

if player 1 keyboard looks like this:
A_1=13
B_1=117
X_1=98
Y_1=104
L_1=107
R_1=108
START_1=110
SELECT_1=111
LEFT_1=276
RIGHT_1=275
UP_1=273
DOWN_1=274

and player 2 keyboard looks like this:
A_2=101
B_2=120
X_2=116
Y_2=105
L_2=109
R_2=110
START_2=106
SELECT_2=112
LEFT_2=97
RIGHT_2=100
UP_2=119
DOWN_2=115

then you need to swap:
A_1 = 101 and A_2 = 13
B_1 = 120 and B_2 = 117
etc.

fluxb0x

Hi, thank you very much for your help, but I just saw that this configuration file "snes9x.cfg" is always rewritten when you start a game. Any idea to avoid this ?

fluxb0x

More info:

+ boot raspberry + piplay
+ tab button to update SNES controller (1-keyboard, 2-Xbox 360 controller)
+ exit piplay
+ edit configuration file snes9x.cfg in folder "pimame/emulators/pisnes"
+ sudo reboot
+ launch a 2 players game (Final Fight 3)
+ both controller still the 1 player (configuration file has been overwrite I think)

mholgatem

no, the config file only ever gets overwritten if you run the controller config. Running a game or restarting your pi won't overwrite it.

fluxb0x

I'm really confused. I did what you told but the keyboard and the xbox 360 controller are one player.
I have a fresh install of PiPlay 0.8.0 Beta 7 with Xbox 360 controllers activated (PiPlay menu) on my Raspberry Pi 2 Model B and here is my snes9x.cfg file for the controllers.

[Keyboard]
# Get codes from /usr/includes/SDL/SDL_keysym.h
A_1=999
B_1=999
X_1=999
Y_1=999
L_1=999
R_1=999
START_1=999
SELECT_1=999
LEFT_1=999
RIGHT_1=999
UP_1=999
DOWN_1=999
QUIT=999
ACCEL=999

# player 2 keyboard controls
A_2=107
B_2=106
X_2=105
Y_2=117
L_2=121
R_2=111
START_2=109
SELECT_2=112
LEFT_2=113
RIGHT_2=100
UP_2=122
DOWN_2=115

[Joystick]
# Get codes from "jstest /dev/input/js0"
# from package "joystick"
# player 1 joystick controls
A_1=1
B_1=0
X_1=3
Y_1=2
L_1=4
R_1=5
START_1=7
SELECT_1=6
#Joystick axis
JA_LR_1=0
JA_UD_1=1

# player 2 joystick controls
A_1=0
B_1=1
X_1=2
Y_1=3
L_1=4
R_1=6
START_1=9
SELECT_1=8
#Joystick axis
JA_LR_1=0
JA_UD_1=1

...
...

fluxb0x

Still can't get both keyboard and Xbox 360 wired controller to be distinct player. I have tried multiple configuration with the snes9x.cfg (https://gist.github.com/igorissen/2ba54c7c82d9355f74ca#file-snes9x-cfg) player 1 as joystick and player 2 as keyboard, player 1 as keyboard and player 2 as joystick. I'm using PiPlay v0.8.0b8.

mholgatem

The emulator might not be able to handle that sort of setup. If you have tried all of that, I would suspect that it needs both players to be on the same sort of setup. It's been a while since I looked at it's source code, but that's all that I can think.

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