Reply To: Mayflash Arcade Stick

[merichards]

UPDATE: The solution for the Mayflash stick is embarassingly simple. I checked the Mayflash website and found out that if you press Auto and Clear together once the stick becomes a normal two-axis stick, press them again and it goes back to a hat switch. For MAME doing this is enough, the default controls will then work happily.

Sadly the stick doesn’t remember this and defaults to hat switch mode so you’ll need to do it every time.

P.S. If you do that and return to EmulationStation you won’t be able to navigate until you re-configure the stick using the GUI. Just toggle back to hat switch mode, bring up the menu, click Configure Input, toggle back to axis mode and go through the process.

I also modified my config file so that the stick works in RetroArch in axis mode:

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_axis = +0
input_l_x_minus_axis = -0
input_l_y_plus_axis = +1
input_l_y_minus_axis = -1

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