Reply To: configuring controllers in Reicast

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After much testing with the emulator over the past few days, I have yet to figure out the dpad issues with the wireless xbox 360 controller. I know I can add the line d pad as button in xbxdrv but doing so would require me to remap all of the other emulators controls which isn’t going to happen. it appears that reicast isn’t set up to read the dpad as an axis, but whats crazy is, as noted above I have the dpad mapped to the axis that it is listing in jstest, and the Dpad_Right is working in-game, so that being considered, I might just need to play around with some of the other axis numbers and might stumble across the other directional mappings. Here’s hoping….

Bugreport

As far as bugs, I believe I have also found a bug in regards to the Wireless Xbox 360 controller. This only happens in Reicast and not in any other emu nor emulation station. After restarting the system, and loading a game with the emulator, the emu appears to load the wrong controller config sometimes. What I mean by that is, I have 2 wireless xbox 360 controllers registered with retropie. And at first I thought Reicast wasn’t picking up any controllers, despite my 360 controller working fine in ES and other emus after reboot. But I noticed when I loaded a 2 player game, that it was indeed picking up the controller, but it was picking up as player 2, not player 1, despite the xbox light showing it as the first player controller. After exiting the emu and switching usb ports (sometimes having to try a few different ports) the emulator will then pick up the xbox 360 controller correctly as player one and work fine from that point on, until another reboot of the pi. Not sure what’s going on with Reicast, but this bug only happens with this emulator and no others. Something definitely needs to be looked at here.

I have also tested quite a few games thus far, and wanted to give updates on performance on these on the latest version of Reicast. Overall, most games I have tested work near perfect or near full speed with only minor graphic gltiches… Sound on the other hand in most games is really choppy. But considering the games them selfs are running almost perfectly, this really appears to me that the pi has plenty of power to run DC games at full speed and just needs some audio fixes to get these titles nearly perfect! Here is the list of games I have tested so far, hope this helps some, and I will be updating these in the future as I test more titles.

Games Tested

Sonic Adventure

After playing the first few levels, both the sound and graphics are nearly perfect with only a few very minor graphic glitches here and there. The game runs at pretty much full speed and it’s one of the few games that I have tested so far where the audio is also nearly perfect!

Soul Calibur

Game is now running at pretty much full speed on the latest version of Reicast. There is some slight slow down when doing some of the “charging” effects but other than that the game runs at close to full speed if not full speed most of the time. There are a few minor graphic glitches here and there, but nothing major at this point and the game is now fully playable. Audio on the other hand is very choppy and quite bad.

Legacy of Kain – Soul Reaver

Another game where so far it runs at pretty much full speed with only minor graphic glitches and is fully playable. Slight slow down during some of the “soul sucking” particle effects but nothing major. Audio is choppy but not as bad as other titles like Soul Calibur.

Draconus – Cult of the Wyrm Disc 1

Boots and loads into game, but heavy slow down making it basicly unplayable. Sky box is also pink, but this is a known bug in the PC dreamcast emulators as well.

Power Stone 2

Boots fine and sound is perfect in the menus and stage intros… Once game loads sound gets super choppy and is very bad. Also game is currently not running at full speed and gets a fair amount of slow down, at least with 4 players on the screen (me and 3 AI). Game would be considered playable, but not much fun in it’s current state.

Street Fighter 3 3rd Strike

Game boots fine but has some graphic glitches in the menus but still mostly navigable. Character sprites and some parts of the back ground have major graphical glitches, though mostly on the players, and currently making the game unplayable due to this. The game does however appear to run at full speed.

Dead or Alive 2

Boots to DC logo and then locks up the pi.

Metropolis Street Racer

Fully playable, runs at full speed, very minor graphical glitches on some of the tracks, pretty much looks perfect! Audio is also perfect! Plays great!

Hope this helps some, just need to figure out the dpad issues with the 360 controller and solve the I/O bug and hopefully audio fixes will come soon enough. So far I am blown away by how playable these games are, most work at near full speed and just need audio fixes and they will be perfect! I will update the games tested list as I make more progress with the system.