Retroarch config help

Hi Ive been trying to get this to work for hours now, and multiple searches doesnt really get me very far. Ive built myself a bartop arcade and put retropie on it, on top of raspbian. Installed Adafruit to map my joystick + 9 buttons to keypresses Got the emulators = roms to work, no issues The emulationstation works fine, I was able to configure successfully the joystick and buttons first time mame is working fine, all buttons mapped too but neither of these use retroarch now when I try and use snes or megadrive roms, they cant be controlled, or can, but some buttons are mapped, and some are not, and with the wrong function Joystick, up, left, right, down = always fine! I have 6 buttons, A,B,C, X,Y,Z and then 3 more buttons for start, select, and exit emulator Keyboard equivalent (tested with Adafruit and successful) A= Enter B= B C= C X= X Y= Y Z= Z start button= 1 select button= 2 exit= 3

My retroarch config file looks like this: input_player1_joypad_index = 3 (i think this forces keyboard, but other values dont seem to work anyway) input_player1_b = b input_player1_a = enter input_player1_y = y input_player1_x = x input_player1_l = c input_player1_r = z input_player1_start = 1 input_player1_select = 2 input_exit_button= 3

The above doesnt work whether i define it in the /opt/retropie/configs/all, or the /opt/retropie/configs/snes or megadrive directories In fact, If I put it in the ‘all’ directry, everythings stops working altogether and I cant even use a keyboard to escape Ive also tried hitting F1 in game and getting a menu where I can configure controls. but when I try that, it just waits for a keypress from somewhere forever (until I hit Enter to skip) The problem seems to be with retroarch, but I cant quite figure it out? Any ideas? Apologies for the long post! Help much appreciated :slight_smile:

[QUOTE=elPaulio;21511]Hi Ive been trying to get this to work for hours now, and multiple searches doesnt really get me very far. Ive built myself a bartop arcade and put retropie on it, on top of raspbian. Installed Adafruit to map my joystick + 9 buttons to keypresses … snip [/QUOTE]

OK, so I figured it out with the help of another user on a different forum…

This is what I needed

input_player1_b = b input_player1_a = enter input_player1_y = y input_player1_x = x input_player1_l = c input_player1_r = z input_player1_start = num1 input_player1_select = num2 input_exit_button= num3

note, num1, num2, num3 etc…

Thanks for posting your solution :slight_smile: