Reply To: Mayflash Arcade Stick

[merichards]

Hi,
I have one of these sticks and it works happily in everything except MAME (still working on that).
I used retroarch-joyconfig to create a .cfg and stored it in /opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/configs/

That way it auto-detects the controller and sorts itself out. My config file looks like this:

input_device = "MY-POWER CO.,LTD. Mayflash Arcade Stick"
input_driver = "udev"

input_a_btn = 0
input_b_btn = 1
input_x_btn = 4
input_y_btn = 5
input_l_btn = 2
input_r_btn = 3
input_l2_btn = 6
input_r2_btn = 7

input_select_btn = 8
input_start_btn = 9

input_up_btn = h0up
input_down_btn = h0down
input_left_btn = h0left
input_right_btn = h0right

input_l_x_plus_btn = h0right
input_l_x_minus_btn = h0left
input_l_y_plus_btn = h0up
input_l_y_minus_btn = h0down

input_enable_hotkey_btn = 8 
input_exit_emulator_btn = 4
input_save_state_btn = 2
input_load_state_btn = 3
input_state_slot_increase_btn = 6
input_state_slot_decrease_btn = 7
input_menu_toggle_btn = 0

As you can see the stick is being detected as a hat and that’s what’s giving me headaches with MAME, but it works just fine with RetroArch cores. MAME just doesn’t see an input when I move the stick, although it sees the buttons just fine.

Hope that’s of some help though.

EDIT: The issue with hats and Mame4AllPi seems to be known, is there any chance that the patch mentioned below might be included in a later RetroPie image/binary installation?

https://code.google.com/p/mame4all-pi/issues/detail?id=17