This is what I have done, I have filled up my GPIO with buttons!

You have to assign a keyboard command to each button. All the instructions you have to do are in that Adfruit guide.

there are a few files you have to edit.

Read through the guide and check you have followed all the steps.

good luck.

Zip file? Is this the adafruit file? I unzipped it on my PC (not sure how to do this on RPi via command prompt) and copied the unzipped directory to my RPI, it goes in the Home directory from memory.

i have it unziped on my pi using 'Git clone url' its in the directory /Adafruit-Retrogame

i got it to work but when i addred to Rc.local nothing worked and when i went bakc to change rc.local it was completely blank

I found this thread very helpful. I followed your instructions as well as adafruits instructions and completed all the steps without errors. The controls still dont seem to work in the emulators.

If i type this command: sudo ./retrogame
The joystick is showing output and seems to be functioning correctly.

I have triple checked to make sure the line in /etc/rc.local is entered correctly and it persists through reboots.

Any ideas what i could be missing or doing wrong? I have been testing in the advancemame emulator and have checked my emulators input keys to make sure they are correct.

Thanks in advance. :-)

you may need to edit your advmame config files. It sounds like the joystick works, but the keys are mapped wrong. Check your '/home/pi/.advance/advmame.rc' file and make sure that everything is mapped correctly. Also, check to make sure that your mappings aren't doubled anywhere in the file (make sure there is only one entry for [p1_up], [p1_left],[p1_down], etc.) Multiple entries can overwrite each other.

That is because you are also including the gamera.c in your make which requires the expat and ncurses libraries. Simply type:

sudo apt-get install ncurses-dev libexpat1-dev

then run your make again. you should be good from there.

I would double check your retrogame config versus your gpio pins and make sure that you have the correct pins mapped. If you are getting feedback from your joystick, then a bad configuration is most likely your culprit.

Here :)

I have the issue that it seems most users have - followed the install etc and got the keyboard presses to work in terminal, but once you launch advmenu/advmame, there is nothing.... It seems to be a problem within those emulators - does anyone have a work around or fix for this?

I used all of the default key mappings from advmame, so didn't change anything. I did read another post somewhere that if you unplug the usb keyboard, that the joystick commands will then work. I will try that approach tomorrow and see how it goes.