Analog Triggers have no analog function using Dualshock 3 controllers

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#1

I’ve got a Dualshock 3 controller and tried to play Outrun on FB Neo, MAME 2003 Plus, Beetle Saturn (Sega Ages version) and no analog triggers function at all, since 3 different cores were tested is not a core issue.

The drivers installed are Motioninjoy 0.7.1001 offline version over OS Windows 7 x86. PC games were tested and no issue with the analog triggers at all.

#2

The UI treats them as digital all the time, but you can do some manual adjustment (the autoconfig profile for your pad is a good place to do it) to make them analog (see the last couple of posts here: https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/6920).

#3

I tried it out, and was a bit complicated to understand since my programming skills are very basic, what I did is to change the following lines to:

  • input_player1_l2_axis = “+2”
  • input_player1_r2_axis = “+5”

and added these lines:

  • input_player1_l2_axis_label = “LT”
  • input_player1_r2_axis_label = “RT”

The file edited was retroarch.cfg a custom one, address: \RetroArch\config. The autoconfig files don’t have the required lines to be edited but all this is not working at all.

#4

Once they’re assigned as axes, the core still needs to support them. You might try Cannonball core, as I think it supports analog triggers for acceleration/brake.

#5

I think Beetle Saturn supports analog triggers since there is a core option to adjust analog triggers deadzone, on the other hand I now figure out that is not implemented yet, I thought there was a misconfiguration of mine. I’ll wait for proper analog triggers support then, thanks.

#6

I kind of figured out the reason the triggers only work as digital, it seems is related to the joypad driver, I changed the default XINPUT to SDL2 and the brake was configured to right stick, the controller I’m using is original DS3 and a message popped up indicating it is a DS3 controller connected and not a Motioninjoy (Windows interfase for DS3) controller anymore as when the joypad driver was XINPUT.

Does anyone know what the axes to configure for the DS3 controller since I can select the one I want, this is the configuration used.

Left stick(left) AXIS X-
Left stick(right) AXIS X+
Left stick(up) AXIS Y+
Left stick(down) AXIS Y-
Right stick(left) AXIS RX-
Right stick(right) AXIS RX+
Right stick(up) AXIS RY+
Right stick(down) AXIS RY-
Left Trigger (L2) AXIS Z+
Right Trigger (R2) AXIS RZ-

The brake only worked as analog when I changed the driver from XINPUT to SDL2 and did’t bind none of buttons at all.

#7

I found 2 solutions:

1st. Emulate the DS3 controller to a Xbox360 one by Motioninjoy interface that’s all or:

2nd. Use “dinput” joypad driver, the details are below:

  • Configure Axis Z+ to L2 analog trigger by Motioninjoy
  • Configure Axis Z- to R2 analog trigger by Motioninjoy
  • Edit your “retroarch.cfg” and find the follow lines:
input_player1_l2_axis = “nul”
input_player1_r2_axis = “nul”

Change values to:

input_player1_l2_axis = “+2”
input_player1_r2_axis = “-2”

Finally save retroarch.cfg

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#8

I found solutions that can work on Windows and Android (Nvidia Shield Tv)

  • On Windows map L2 and R2 by Motioninjoy to Dial+ (Axis +6) and Slider+ (Axis +7) respectively.
  • On Android no need since is automatically mapped.

Now edit your “retroarch.cfg” and find the following lines:

input_player1_l2_axis = “nul”
input_player1_r2_axis = “nul”

Change values to:

input_player1_l2_axis = “+6”
input_player1_r2_axis = “+7”

And save retroarch.cfg

Note 1: Don’t ever set this controls by Retroarch to avoid digital controls to be mapped.

Note 2: When L2 and R2 are mapped to same number axis simultaneous interrupt is made at both triggers pressed for an instant.

#9

Here’s what I use for my Windows PC:

https://vigem.org/projects/DsHidMini/

https://ryochan7.github.io/ds4windows-site/

And before you ask, yes, it does work with DS3 controllers…