[matthew]

I’m not sure if you are aware the light gun will not work on HD tv’s you must have an old style tv to use the light gun. this fact annoys me because i see people selling thees kits at like the mall and markets and they are using the old tv’s and they don’t tell people they don’t work on hd tv’s which 99.5% of people own

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halt script. i want to push the button and send the halt command and shut down the system nomatter what it is doing.

[matthew]

did you update to the current firmware via Retropi_setup.sh ?

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good luck

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i took all my other emulators and stuck them in a folder so just NES is where it should be since thats all im interested in. f10 to quit out of that apple emulator and f4 to get back to terminal. you can in theory map to a NAS but thats so much of a pain if you plug in a usb stick it will create a ROM folder on it just put your roms in the appropriate folder and when you plug it back in it will auto copy them off. hope that helps a little.

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did you figure this out yet?

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going to bed but if you want here is my RPI https://securecdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/521/380/original.jpg

look at the discussion at the bottom of the page here https://www.petrockblock.com/2012/07/19/connecting-snes-sockets-to-the-raspberry-pi-an-assembly-guide/#comment-931821455

if your wired like that then it should atleast try to get you to configure a controller on boot into ES. if not then really id would wipe an reload i did it about 4 times.

[matthew]

i used that same diagram for the pinouts. i went one further i tore off those two cables that are not used as to limit my confusion. This is what i suggest. wipe and reload you may have changed too much to be sure you didn’t mess something up on accident. i used this image https://www.petrockblock.com/download/retropie-project-image/

after that all you should need to do is expand your File system, run setup to disable SNESDev, enable Gamecon gpio drive reboot, update emulation station reboot and maybe make a manual configuration change. if you want we can skype real quick and ill look at your wiring. from what i can tell your jstest will always show an SNES controller.

[matthew]

the the setup script again and make sure to go to option #10 in the setup and make sure your are wired just like in the diagram. after you are sure you are go to terminal and type sudo modprobe gamecon_gpio_rpi map=0,0,2,2 then reboot
after you come back up it Will see your controller then F4 out to prompt and go to the folder and do the command as decrpibed above. after a reboot you should be good. i might wipe my system and try again to make sure i understand everything correctly.

go to https://www.petrockblock.com/2012/08/26/gamecon-driver-module-for-nes-snes-and-n64-controllers-added-to-retropie-setup-script/#comment-932792490

about 1/2 way down the page there is a code box that had the readme file in it.

i got so confused by that portion that we are intrested in but i “cracked the code” lol

Their like digital dip switches the first number corresponds to GPIO0 (NOT PIN) and so on. i was trying to give it a pin and then a controller as in map=72 or 52 (for pin 5 nes controller)

i hope this helps

[matthew]

I was looking in the wrong spot. do this
You should be able to just cd into the directory containing EmulationStation (usually ~/RetroPie/supplementary/EmulationStation/), run git pull to get the newest changes, and then make to recompile. You don’t need to copy the binary anywhere.

and reboot and it gives you the option to skip keys

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how do you get your joystick name? i have tried the input name and that doesn’t work for me and im out of ideas as to where to find the name. since its an analog device it does not show up in either of the two folders inside of /dev/input

i only say that on an assumption since the only devices listed in either of those folders are USB devices.

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nope it wants to map my keys again and i get to “page up” and i can’t go any further because all the keys are already mapped. but at least i now have the values for the controller mapped out. i just can’t figure out why it thinks its an SNES controller

[matthew]

I made my own config file for ES. i just deleted it and followed your advice i had to make sure i had the right fields hashed out. i am rebooting now

[matthew]

i just got mine working as of a few hours ago. i still can’t figure out why its mapping as if its an SNES controller so im stuck at key mapping but ill get you to that point at least.

just responds and we can see what i can help with.

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