[wowzer22]

OK, I’ve figured something out…the issue is not that different ROMS are reading differently as much as different emulators are. Lr_fba_next and Lr_fba have the issue I mention with the Capcom roms, where the second player’s #1 and #7 buttons are mixed. PiFBA doesn’t seem to be reading the second player at all, and the coin/start buttons are mapped to buttons #10 and #11 for the first player for some strange reason.

Any ideas? Based on the .cfg files I posted in the post above there doesn’t seem to be any reason this would be happening, everything looks as if it’s mapped correctly…unless I’m missing something?

UPDATE: Turns out the lr_fba issues were good old fashioned user error. I had the buttons wired incorrectly. That said, I still can’t get piFBA to work right.

[wowzer22]

Hey Duck,

Thanks for the speedy response. Any shot you can paste what oyu have in your retroarch.cfg? I believe mine is setup correctly but it might help to cross-reference.

I looked at the github solution and while my fba2x.cfg is different, it doesn’t really explain why my buttons wouldn’t be working correctly. Here’s what mine contains (this appears to be just for PiFBA:

[Keyboard]
# Get codes from /usr/include/SDL/SDL_keysym.h
A_1=306
B_1=32
X_1=308
Y_1=304
L_1=122
R_1=120
START_1=13
SELECT_1=9
LEFT_1=276
RIGHT_1=275
UP_1=273
DOWN_1=274
QUIT=27
#player 2 keyboard controls, disabled by default
A_2=999
B_2=999
X_2=999
Y_2=999
L_2=999
R_2=999
START_2=999
SELECT_2=999
LEFT_2=999
RIGHT_2=999
UP_2=999
DOWN_2=999

[Joystick]
# Get codes from “jstest /dev/input/js0”
# from package “joystick”
A_1=0
B_1=1
X_1=2
Y_1=3
L_1=4
R_1=6
START_1=9
SELECT_1=8
#Joystick axis
JA_LR=0
JA_UD=1
#player 2 button configuration
A_2=0
B_2=1
X_2=2
Y_2=3
L_2=4
R_2=6
START_2=9
SELECT_2=8
#Joystick axis
JA_LR_2=0
JA_UD_2=1

[Graphics]
DisplaySmoothStretch=1
# Display Effect: 0 none, 1 scanlines
DisplayEffect=0
DisplayBorder=0
MaintainAspectRatio=1

[Sound]

I’ll try replacing it with theirs to see if it makes a difference. Wondering if that fixes all the games? It’s weird that Capcom has one set of button issues and a game like Wrestlefest has a completely different issue. The rest of the emulators in Retropie work flawlessly since running with your solution.

Here’s what my RetroArch button layout looks like from Retroarch.cfg:

# Joypad buttons.
# Figure these out by using RetroArch-Phoenix or retroarch-joyconfig.
# You can use joypad hats with hnxx, where n is the hat, and xx is a string representing direction.
# E.g. “h0up”
# input_player1_a_btn = 4
# input_player1_b_btn = 3
# input_player1_y_btn = 0
# input_player1_x_btn = 1
# input_player1_start_btn = 6
# input_player1_select_btn = 8
# input_player1_l_btn = 2
# input_player1_r_btn = 5
# input_player1_left_btn =
# input_player1_right_btn =
# input_player1_up_btn =
# input_player1_down_btn =
# input_player1_l2_btn =
# input_player1_r2_btn =
# input_player1_l3_btn =
# input_player1_r3_btn =
input_player1_b_btn = 3
input_player1_y_btn = 0
input_player1_select_btn = 7
input_player1_start_btn = 6
input_player1_up_axis = -1
input_player1_down_axis = +1
input_player1_left_axis = -0
input_player1_right_axis = +0
input_player1_a_btn = 4
input_player1_x_btn = 1
input_player1_l_btn = 2
input_player1_r_btn = 5
input_player2_b_btn = 3
input_player2_y_btn = 0
input_player2_select_btn = 7
input_player2_start_btn = 6
input_player2_up_axis = -1
input_player2_down_axis = +1
input_player2_left_axis = -0
input_player2_right_axis = +0
input_player2_a_btn = 4
input_player2_x_btn = 1
input_player2_l_btn = 2
input_player2_r_btn = 5
input_enable_hotkey_btn = 9
input_exit_emulator_btn = 8
input_menu_toggle_btn = 1
input_load_state_btn = 2
input_save_state_btn = 5
input_reset_btn = 3
input_state_slot_increase_axis = +0
input_state_slot_decrease_axis = -0
input_volume_up_axis = -1
input_volume_down_axis = +1

Seems like player 1 and 2 should both have the same basic button configurations.

[wowzer22]

Just to add, it appears that each emulator in FBA is having different control issues, especially between different developers. CP1-3 games have the issue I mentioned above but games from NeoGeo and others have different mapping. Not sure what’s going on but help would be greatly appreciated!

[wowzer22]

OK, so I’ve managed to get everything working, THANKS for this, it was a HUGE help. I’m still running into an issue though, mainly with the FBA emulators.

Initially I was having an issue where button #1 for P2 (player 2) wasn’t working in MAME. This was fixed easily by pressing tab when in a MAME ROM and manually fixing the input.

I’m now having a similar issue with FBA games (CP1-3 mainly) where P2’s #7 and #0 buttons aren’t functioning correctly. #7 should be P2 Start, but instead it’s functioning as if it were #1 (low punch in fighting games). Meanwhile, button #1 is functioning as button #7.

Any idea how to fix this? There doesn’t seem to be an obvious general setting for FBA like there is in MAME (tab doesn’t work).

Let me know your thoughts.

[wowzer22]

Should I take the silence as it not being possible ;)? Just curious if there’s a way to have the monitor go to sleep when the Pi goes idle using HDMI or not. If not I need to figure out some other solution.

[wowzer22]

Hi,

This seems excellent, thanks for putting it together!

I’m having issues with Step 11:

“Step 11: Go in to the RetroArch configuration and navigate to “input”, change the buttons you want for Player 1 and 2 for the Xin-mo. Then go to hotkeys menu and select what buttons you want for quitting a game, saving etc. ”

Where exactly is this?

Thanks!

[wowzer22]

Awesome, thanks for the education!

[wowzer22]

Disregard, figured it out…sorry for the wasted post!

[wowzer22]

These are FANTASTIC! Just out of curiosity, how does one implement these? Can they be set as defaults per console so that newer consoles are widescreen but these appear whenever the aspect ratio for a game is 4:3?

[wowzer22]

Figured out how to find the file I was looking to edit.

Thanks!

[wowzer22]

Hi,

This theme is excellent but as someone completely new to all of this I’m having trouble figuring out where to go to change the color. I understand what I’m supposed to do but am new to navigating the Pi…any chance you can point me to where I should go to access the necessary config?

Thanks!

EDIT: Never mind, figured it out!

[wowzer22]

Got it working, thanks all!

[wowzer22]

AH! I see, I was totally misunderstanding that set. So quick question, do I rebuild using one of the lr-fba-next .dat files or just the regular pifba dat file in the instructions?

[wowzer22]

Well, rebuilding from source didn’t seem to help. Any other ideas? I know people have these working, can’t figure out why I can’t get them running on my system :)!

Now when I try to use lr-fba-next as suggested I no longer get the error messages, just a few equals signs at the top of the screen, which then kick me back to the emustation/retropie menu…

[wowzer22]

Right but according to those charts I’m using the correct rom sets. I’ve combed that list quite a few times to ensure I’m using the right roms/sets.

Trying to rebuild the piFBA/retroarch/lr-FBA-next bios now to see if maybe something got screwed up in the latest retropie update…

[wowzer22]

As mentioned, attempting to run any version other than the standard piFBA doesn’t work at all. See the error I get from trying to use the latest version of lr-fba-next attached. I’ve tried re-installing, switching rom versions and it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Feels like I’m missing a step?

The system just hangs for a few after that and then kicks me back to the emustation interface.

[wowzer22]

Should note that I’m fairly new at all of this but am decently tech savvy!

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