I am having no luck at all setting things up to work without a keyboard so I can control everything from the game controller.
I have this controller: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002B9XB0E/
I’ve got the controls mapped and configured. It works in all the games I’ve used (Atari 2600, Sega Genesis). No problems there.
But, once I select an emulator and a game, I’m stuck. Without the “Escape” key on the keyboard, I am stuck playing the first game I select and then I also have no way to shut down the system properly.
The left and right buttons on the side of the controllers are 4 and 5:
input_player1_l_btn = 4
input_player1_r_btn = 5
(from /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg)
Those don’t seem to be of use to any of the games I play, so I thought those would be the best choices to use for exiting, thus I configured this:
input_exit_emulator_btn = 4
input_menu_toggle_btn = 5
No go.
I tried editing /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg:
<input name="escape" type="button" id="4" value="1" />
<input name="menu" type="button" id="5" value="1" />
No go.
The buttons work. I used jstest to get the 4 and 5 values.
So I am stuck with having to use a keyboard, which really isn’t convenient when I just want to set up a more or less standalone game system.
Any ideas?
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