Hello everyone,
I am the extremely happy owner of an archos gamepad 2. Great general-use tablet, powerfull enough for most android games (GTA, dead trigger, agarest, riptide gp 2, repulze, …) and VERY nice for emulators. Now I already have snes9ex+ , animeonline snes, fpse, myboy! free, mupen64+, drastic (full speed DS emu!) and some others on it, and they all work 100% perfect.
I have retroarch for the master syste, mega drive, nes emulators, and for chrono cross because it´s a heavy game and all emulators but PCSX ReARMED have minor lag when transitioning to battle screen (yes I hate that kind of incredibly minor problem).
My problem is two-fold: first, whenever I save a game on a ´memory card´ or whatever the nes and megadrive used, then restart the emulator, the saved games are gone. For example, under the pcsx ReARMED emu, the game reports both memory cards are empty. This obviously is a huge problem.
Second problem is with the controller. It´s pre-configured perfectly. BUT. The 4 buttons on the right, the d-pad, and the 4 shoulder buttons together seem to form ´joy_key´. The 2 analog sticks are ´joystick´. The hardware volume key is´rk29-keypad´ and the back button is ´virtual´. This wouldn´t be a problem since I only use the analogue sticks if my life depe… - if it´s an android game, except for the fact that whenever I start, or switch back to, either the retroarch menu or a retroarch emulator, there is a ´race condition´ between these 4 over who gets to control which ´input port´ . Since the sticks sometimes tend to have almost immeasurable small input by themselves (which is not a problem in android games or the UI), they sometimes get assigned port 0, after which pressing a key on the ´joy_key’ will give port 1 to that 'separate device´ - making the game completely uncontrollable untill I switch in and out a few times and ´get lucky´. This is really annoying. I have searched and searched, but can not seem to find a way to only use joy_key and completely ignore the rest.
Now this is not a problem at all in other emus, including the same ones included in retroarch when used separately (ie mupen64 plus), so does anyone know of a way to fix this problem? also, more importantly, to be able to get the PSX and other emu´s to actually save games?? Any help would be much appreciated!
Oh and one last thing - because the thing seems to think the android back button belongs to device ´virtual´, pressing it does not do anything, even when setting back button behaviour in options to open menu. This means I can´t save or load any save-states in-game, which makes the memory card problem all the more fatal. Anyone know of a way to fix that?