Add USB dance mat pad as controller with autoconfig file

AngeloScipione · 8 January 2023 01:05

Why do this?

You could have two objectives:

Play Dance Dance Revolution in MAME or PSX.
A challenge to play with your feet a game…

Advantages

If you have a configuration file for your mat pad you won’t need configurate it every time your plug it.

Main problem

In theory, you can add your configuration in the right folder. However, a lot of devices shares IDs. This means that you can have conflicts between devices. For me, my mat from Aliexpress is detected as “Retro-Bit_Genesis_Saturn_8_Button_Arcade_Pad”. With your device it could be another one.

Step 1, delete troublesome file

And make a backup… You find “Retro-Bit_Genesis_Saturn_8_Button_Arcade_Pad.cfg” in “RetroArch-Win64\autoconfig\dinput”.

Step 2, create a .cfg file

In the same folder create a file with Notepad and extension “cfg”. For me is “Dance_Mat_Pad_Xbox360.cfg”. The content is:

input_driver = “dinput” input_vendor_id = “121” input_product_id = “17” input_device = "USB Gamepad " input_device_display_name = “USB Dance Mat Pad (Xbox 360)”

input_a_btn = “6” input_b_btn = “7” input_x_btn = “4” input_y_btn = “5”

input_back_btn = “8” input_start_btn = “9”

input_up_btn = “2” input_down_btn = “1” input_left_btn = “0” input_right_btn = “3”

input_a_btn_label = “” input_b_btn_label = “” input_x_btn_label = “” input_y_btn_label = “”

input_back_btn_label = “Back” input_start_btn_label = “Start”

input_up_btn_label = “↑” input_down_btn_label = “↓” input_left_btn_label = “←” input_right_btn_label = “→”