[Scott Nath]

alloca,

I don’t have any suggestions for exiting the emulator, sorry.

For the non-working x-arcade – are you using the default set of keys, or did you use a keyboard to change the keys.

If you changed the button layout, remember that with the x-arcade you need to click the button on the back of the box off and on to set it to the new settings every time the x-arcade loses power. It’s a weird quirk of those joysticks…

[Scott Nath]

@mack505 – I never attempted a dual-key setting.

[Scott Nath]

Tried an issue at RetroPie GitHub:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/881
but the issue got closed without a resolution.

Have given up trying. (8+ hours of scouring the internet and trying every option out there does that)

Hope that retropie allows this feature in the future. emulationstation is too rigid in design for my purposes.

I need something with all games on one screen, with no other options for a user to pick at all. Just a basic up/down and select for games. I can show the emulator as data next to gamename/pic/etc – I don’t need different screens for different emulators. Too much choice is a bad thing sometimes and turns off users.

-scott

[Scott Nath]

I am having the same issue. I’ve tried with RetroPie beta3 and beta 4 and all the mame4-all games start with the warning screen.

From what I see, this screen should be going away after the first time viewed for each game, but it’s not. Been searching for a while for the solution.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Scott

[Scott Nath]

OK. I may have found a problem with the SD Image. I was using a Raspberry Pi Model B+. I switched my card to a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B+ and this bug went away.

Or actually, probably my own ignorance. I thought that the model b+ was version 2.

[Scott Nath]

Actually, I did try to include the path when launching and I got an error. There is a thread for that here:

starting games from command line

As for adding paths to linux and searching on google – I’m a novice for linux. I was able find some solutions – and I’ve tried a bunch since yesterday when I posted for help, but none are working so far.

If you could possibly help with a more detailed solution it would help me and anyone else who may be searching for “retroarch not found” (how I found this thread).

[Scott Nath]

Hey faysalubit,

That didn’t help. I’m pretty sure that’s not correct as that just copies the retroarch folder retroarch to the top directory. The error still exists:

-bash: retroarch: command not found

[Scott Nath]

Could you please post the command you ran to add retroarch to the system path?

thanks
Scott

[Scott Nath]

Thanks Floob. That’s what I’m trying to get around though – doing it in the GUI.

Is there any way to edit those files as text?

thanks,
Scott

[Scott Nath]

FYI…I got two sets of x-arcades working for a total of four players at once!

I open sourced what I put together:
https://github.com/scottnath/retropie-with-dual-x-arcades

thanks again for your help

scott

[Scott Nath]

Yeah…totally expected that. I was just trying to determine if there was a callback or trigger that might be called when RetroPie launches a game and/or emulator. Is there, perhaps, an event that happens when a game starts that could trigger a php or js (or something else) call on the RetroPie running the game…or perhaps an IP call could be triggered to another RasPi on the same network?

Looking for any event options that may be out there…

thanks,
Scott

[Scott Nath]

I got it working! One extra thing is in the MAME general config (hit tab) you also need to program the “UI Cancel” option. It starts out as ESC, but you need to set it to both player buttons so it performs the escape-to-emulationstation functionality.

Thank you for helping me with your findings Thex – helped a lot.

I’m curious…what is it that xarcadetojoystick does if it’s not setting this up?

thanks,
Scott

[Scott Nath]

Aha. Found it. Thank you.

[Scott Nath]

What about the ESC key? When I was in Atari I had to hit ESC on the keyboard. Is that correct?

[Scott Nath]

I do. thanks.

Will I have to map any of the other emulators do you think?

[Scott Nath]

Hi Thex,

Just wanted to drop a line that I’m still working on this. Your .pdf helped a lot.

FYI,
* I did a completely new install of RetroPie from the SD Card Image v2.3.
* I followed the LifeHacker Article steps 1 and 2.
* Then I ssh’d in and changed /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg to follow your keymap charting exactly like this:

1. Modify the following lines:

input_player1_a = z
input_player1_b = shift
input_player1_y = ctrl
input_player1_x = alt
input_player1_start = num5
input_player1_select = c
input_player1_l = space
input_player1_r = x
input_player1_left = keypad4
input_player1_right = keypad6
input_player1_up = keypad8
input_player1_down = keypad2

2. Add the following lines:

input_player2_a = e
input_player2_b = w
input_player2_y = a
input_player2_x = s
input_player2_start = num6
input_player2_select = rightbracket
input_player2_l = q
input_player2_r = leftbracket
input_player2_left = d
input_player2_right = g
input_player2_up = r
input_player2_down = f

And that was it.

I did not install or enable the xarcadetojoystick code. Just changed retroarch.cfg and rebooted.

Following reboot Atari 2600 worked exactly right. I launched Gauntlet in MAME and it almost all worked except for Player 1’s joystick was not working.

I ran out of time there. But this week I will be revisiting this and trying games from all the systems I have. I’ll report back here when I have my findings.

thank you a ton for posting your notes,

Scott

[Scott Nath]

Hi Thex, Yes please! Exactly what I’m looking for…

Thank you, Scott

[Scott Nath]

Yup, that was this line from the first post:

“328 setup->Xarcade2Jstick: enabled”

Didn’t help.

This isn’t the tank, it’s the dual and it doesn’t have the trackball sadly.

thanks,
Scott

[Scott Nath]

A couple addendums:

two config files?
There are two cfg files in /opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/configs:

• Xarcade-to-Gamepad-Device.cfg
• Xarcade-to-GamepadDevice.cfg

Should those both be in there?

I tried editing /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
I added the items found here:

XArcade + USB keyboard

but that made no difference at all.

thanks,
Scott

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