Can't bind Player 2 Button 1 or Button 6 within retroarch menu

[randomuseralias]

Player 2 Button 1 and Button 6 will not bind to actions in game.

[palmerj]

I can also confirm that 5th and 6th buttons are not bound. Also the player 2 controls can not be set in the MAME UI and you can not set the buttons in the MAME UI with a plugged in keyboard or with the 2 player gamepad. My setup uses 2 of the same gamepads which are working fine in MAME 2003 or finalburn backends. @markwkidd any ideas as you have recently applied a patch that added players 3 and 4?

[palmerj]

Here's a log of the emulator running mk1: https://gist.github.com/palmerj/de1212f7c3bc1e0c8acbb2ca74b27459

[purplesanz]

5th and 6th buttons are not bound. Also the player 2 controls can not be set in the MAME UI

Exactly the same issues I'm having. Is there any workaround for this?

[Metalwario64]

I have this issue as well, and as described above, MAME 2003 (and the Plus version), as well as the FBA cores all have the controls working properly.

In my case, it shows these buttons as bound in the controls screen, but they don't actually work for player 2.

[markwkidd]

WIP. No one is working on it much though.

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On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 12:23 AM grant2258 ***@***.***> wrote: first time using this core the joystick is mapped to the keyboard for some reason? and only player1 controls are set in the controls menu in input general is this intentional or is it a wip? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#119 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ASphdtKDtLu8aSOmJm2caNWogfbGqx3Kks5vfBW0gaJpZM4U9RR9> .

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[purplesanz]

this is how bad it was i can see why all the input issues where there

Were you able to get six buttons (three punches + three kicks, for example) working on the second gamepad?

[thanguya]

Hey mans, I found a solution for myself but it is quite the convoluted work around. However, it allows me to have Player 1 on my Xbox controller with all 6 buttons. And Player 2 on my arcade stick with all 6 buttons. It requires that you have Antimicro or any Joypad to Keyboard program of your choice. Antimicro allows me to remap controller buttons to a keyboard key and I set it up so when Mame2010 core starts up, it also starts up.

So what I did was map my controller 1 as usual. I cross check this by going into Test or Service inside Mame2010 core while the game is running and Input to see which keys are binded. Or go into Story Mode, let Player 2 Join and punch around. Now for Player 2 I bind keys 1,4,5,6. In Street Fighter EX for example, that’s Low Kick, Low Punch, Medium Punch and Heavy Punch.

This leaves me with two missing kicks. So what I did then was I went into Antimicro and set R2 = Keyboard “E”. This gives me Medium Kick. Now the last step was, you have to disable Retroarch’s exit button from = “escape” to “nul” temporary. You also have to clear any Autohotkeys Scripts associated with Retroarch.

This allows you to clear keys in Mame2010 GUI as Mame2010 accepts two “escape” presses to clear a key. The MameGUI opens via Tab. Run Mame2010 and enter Mame2010 GUI. Then go to where Tab to open GUI is located, it should be in Option Settings or Settings, basically NOT Player 1 or Player 2 but general input settings for navigating the GUI. Select where Tab is allocated and select it and double press “escape”. This clears the Tab key so it no longer opens Mame2010 GUI. Now DO NOT CLOSE RETROARCH. As this saves your configuration and you can’t access the Mame2010 when you reopen retroarch. Now navigate to Player 2 in the GUI and set Button 2 = Tab. Now you have Tab set to Medium Kick. Now you can assign Tab onto your Joypad Controller. The only issue with this is you no longer have access to Mame2010 GUI but after setting up you won’t need to as everything is handled by Retroarch.

Now you should have 6 buttons for player 2, and Player 1 also has 6 buttons.

You can

Setup your program to run with retroarch or your Mame2010 game like this.

un, C:\Program Files (x86)\AntiMicro\antimicro.exe

$Esc:: { Process, Close, antimicro.exe Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}} }

Also if everything fails or is messed up. You can go to

Where you Saved Retroach :\RetroArch\saves\mame2010 and delete the entire folder. This resets the Mame2010 GUI settings so you can Tab into again and mess around.

Also if you have difficulty preventing “escape” from exiting in Retroarch. Find retroarch.cfg in and open in Notepad.

Change input_exit_emulator = “escape” to

input_exit_emulator = “null”

I hope all or any of this information makes sense and helps you configure, I’ve spent nearly a week on this problem as I was setting up my Arcade collection and it drove me insane.

[pjft]

@markwkidd apologies for bothering here.

I'm happy to try and give it a shot here, though the MAME codebase is a bit daunting.

I have looked through past PRs, namely yours about adding 3 & 4 player support, and your comment in #21 about this being the location for it to be fixed:

https://github.com/libretro/mame2010-libretro/blob/master/src/emu/inpttype.h#L139-L140

But it is still very alien to me. I see the default definitions there, but then I fail to see how these address (or could be changed) to address the fact that those extra buttons on 6-button games don't work. I do confirm that pushing "E" on the keyboard triggers P2 button 5, but there's nothing there that suggests that "INDEXED(JOYCODE_BUTTON5, 1)" wouldn't as well (which I read as being Button 5?).

I went to the Sony ZN file driver to see if there was anything on the driver initialization or definition, but I felt I was getting way outside of my comfort zone. :)

Any pointers would be very much appreciated, I'll gladly try to look into it and see if I get anywhere.

Thanks and happy Sunday.