I need a help in configuration of the gamepad in bt keyboard mode

RetroArch Apple devices
#8

just left my device in my home and i just tested it… however i mapped player 1&2 with different controller but they directed to the same set of buttons, and tried in game play and confirm they used the same button… cause i can control both players in one controller… so now the issue is:

  1. icade mode is working fine in retroarch, but only single player, the second controller used the same set of reactions button with the first one,

  2. bt keyboard mode is working fine in IOS (can use it to type words) but could not work in retroarch, i used this mode in another emu app Snes9x and it works perfectly with two controllers, so that must be the setting problem of retroarch,

#9

[QUOTE=shi;49052]just left my device in my home and i just tested it… however i mapped player 1&2 with different controller but they directed to the same set of buttons, and tried in game play and confirm they used the same button… cause i can control both players in one controller… so now the issue is:

  1. icade mode is working fine in retroarch, but only single player, the second controller used the same set of reactions button with the first one,

  2. bt keyboard mode is working fine in IOS (can use it to type words) but could not work in retroarch, i used this mode in another emu app Snes9x and it works perfectly with two controllers, so that must be the setting problem of retroarch,[/QUOTE]

Well, let me tell you that i can use multiplayer with two controllers but using Steelseries nimbus, this issue happens only with 8bitdo controllers. If you want to play multiplayer with different devices you can use retroarch netplay it only works with SNES9X core. This thing is wireless so need two idevices.

#10

ok thanks my friend, i will wait until there is a solution then,

#11

You welcome, at least you can use that controller to play on retroarch, and yes SNES9X app works perfectly fine with icade to use multiplayer. I really love it.

#12

really!? I also use keyboard mode to map in snes9x as 2 player mode,

but i really want to play metal slug multiplayer in the device but the iMame4all crashed in the device with unknown reason, and the retroarch core did not support mame2014&2015…

#13

OMG i can help with mame4all i have a working Xcode project that you can use. Give me a few hours and i can share it with you.

#14

thanks and you are awesome!

also i figured out something justnow: when i connected the controller with iPad as bt keyboard mode, while i am binding the key and quickly press two buttons, the binding recognize as one of the letter (button) (that is exactly the working method of the button in iCade mode), so may be what i missing now is to set the retroarch to support keyboard, instead of iCade Controller, right? but how…

#15

Theres an option to use keyboard input or something like that. Is inside input settings.

#16

Haha, thanks.

#17

that should call “Keyboard Gamepad Mapping Type”, i saw the others they had another option call “Keyboard Gampad Mapping Enable” but mine don’t…

#18

Im sorry it was enable small keyboard, thought it was another thing could help, but no. https://www.dropbox.com/s/j3aq7g3j520zo73/MAME4iOS-master.zip?dl=0 here is it, just write down 6.1 as a deployment target and you are good to go.

#19

thanks but i need to start to learn how to use xcode…:wink:

#20

Okey, so you have installed already? If you do, let me know to show you how to install xcode projects.

#21

great thanks Incognit but i need some time to get into my mac book to work on it,

however, i got a good news, that i tried few verison of retroarch and found that when i turn “Keyboard Gamepad mapping enable” off, the gamepad worked with bt keyboard mode, but that was missing in 1.3.6, i am using 1.3.4 now…

but another issue comes up that for MAME2003 core, it may having some hidden hotkeys since when i use 2nd control, the button are not works correctly… anywhere can i check it?

#22

[QUOTE=shi;49158]great thanks Incognit but i need some time to get into my mac book to work on it,

however, i got a good news, that i tried few verison of retroarch and found that when i turn “Keyboard Gamepad mapping enable” off, the gamepad worked with bt keyboard mode, but that was missing in 1.3.6, i am using 1.3.4 now…

but another issue comes up that for MAME2003 core, it may having some hidden hotkeys since when i use 2nd control, the button are not works correctly… anywhere can i check it?[/QUOTE]

Sure, no problem. Nice to hear it worked, finally. But as i spected second player still having issues… ��. Actually, i couldnt help you very much with mame core because i wasnt able to make it work on 1.3.6, seems you are the first i hear about that solve that issue, thats why i use Mame4iOS which i dont have any problems with it. Well, ¿you mean like Coin, Start, Exit and all those buttons? I think what you can do, is copy cat the input 1 configuration to input 2 and see if that works. Or check if input 2 can enable that keyboard option, maybe 1.3.4 has that option. Just noticed that 1.3.6 on keyboard input gamepad you can select none, maybe that is the same as if you deactivated the option on 1.3.4

#23

thanks, at the moment i found the issue about the second controller of bt keyboard mode is:

up (char: p) will active a black screen with game pause (i never notice this function in any other mame emu before) right (char: a) will active button Y as well down (char: q)will active button A as well

so i suspected that there is other options hidden in the core, cause i use the snes9x core dont have the issue

#24

[QUOTE=shi;49170]thanks, at the moment i found the issue about the second controller of bt keyboard mode is:

up (char: p) will active a black screen with game pause (i never notice this function in any other mame emu before) right (char: a) will active button Y as well down (char: q)will active button A as well

so i suspected that there is other options hidden in the core, cause i use the snes9x core dont have the issue[/QUOTE]

Thats so weird, let me try to load that core ad replicate that issue you are having, maybe i can find something and help you.

#25

Okey, found something could help. I loaded the game, and discovered that the core, has an input configuration by pressing R2 you can access to it, and change input configuration by game or by core. Check it out.

#26

YES! finally i got it, your advise is so useful and it works for the MAME2003 core, i can play some of the games i want now;)

but some of them still not supporting, for those uses MAME 2014 & 2015 (meta slug 4 & 5) i still need to use MAME4ios…

so far i found that it’s a staching problem why i could not install it and run…

#27

[QUOTE=shi;49201]YES! finally i got it, your advise is so useful and it works for the MAME2003 core, i can play some of the games i want now;)

but some of them still not supporting, for those uses MAME 2014 & 2015 (meta slug 4 & 5) i still need to use MAME4ios…

so far i found that it’s a staching problem why i could not install it and run…[/QUOTE]

Yes, nice to hear i could help you. Thanks. Okey how are u installing MAME4iOS?