Can't Map X or Y to (N64) C Buttons

RetroArch Windows devices
#1

Long(ish) time user of RetroArch. I just recently have been trying to play N64 roms. I’m using a game cube controller, and am having trouble mapping the X and Y buttons on it to the Top and Right C buttons. I can map X or Y to any other input, but get no response when I try to make either of them a C button.

The gamecube’s right c stick get’s automatically mapped to the c buttons, and works fine. I also am able to map the other buttons on the gamecube controller to the c buttons. I’m not quite sure what is going on. Has anyone seen this before?

#2

Just another note: it doesn’t matter which core I use to play the ROM’s. It occurs on each.

#3

Could be related to the fact that the c-buttons are mapped to analog axes by default. Have you tried enabling the ‘independent c-button mapping’ core option?

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#4

The setting fixed it. Thank you very much for the quick reply. What does that option do exactly?

#5

Glad that got you fixed up. It moves all of the buttons to digital inputs (specifically, it gets the C-buttons off the right analog, and IIRC it also gets rid of the C-button mode switch hotkey on R2) to make them easier to remap. At the time I implemented it, there was no way to move digital <-> analog assignments at all, so that was its main purpose. That was later fixed, but clearly not 100% based on your experience.