Button Mapping Gamecube and NES

joinski

Hi nadenislamarre,

since Batocera 5.12 or 5.13 (i do not know right now) the Button-Mapping in Gamecube is not correct.
The buttons B and X on Gamecube-Controller are reversed.

I use a PS3-Controller and in 5.11 when i pressed the Square-Button, it was the B-Button in Gamecube (for example in Mario Kart Double Dash!! with B-Button (=Square on PS3-Controller) you break and drive backwards) and when i pressed Circle-Button it was the X-Button in Gamecube (in Mario Kart = Using Items).
This is the correct mapping, when you compare PS3-Controller with Gamecube-Controller.

But in newer versions of batocera (i use 5.15 and 5.16 at the moment) the Mapping has been changed.
B and X on Gamecube (Square and Circle on PS3-Pad) are reversed now.

Is there a possibility to change the button-mapping?

And for NES i would also like to know, how to permanently change the button-mapping.
Because i would like to set the Square-Button on my PS3-Controller as B-Button and X-Button on PS3-Controller as A-Button. So that jumping while running fast in Super Mario Bros is easier.

For Gameboy it was possible for me to change the button-mapping permanently.
Just go into RetroArch Menu by Pressing Hotkey + B, then in "Quick Menu" go to "Controls" and there you can change "B-Button (down)" to A and "Y-Button (left)" to B. And after that just "Save Core/Game Remap File".
In NES this is not possible, because in "Quick Menu", "Controls", you can not change anything (every button is just "---").

The only way i found to change button-mapping in NES was to go into RetroArch Menu (Hotkey + B ), then go back to "Main Menu", "Settings"," Input", "Input User 1 Binds".
But when you change something there, then the mapping of navigation within RetroArch Menu will also be changed, which can lead to the situation that you can not navigate through RetroArch Menu anymore.
Also it was not possible for me to save the changes there permanently (after exit game, all changes are lost, when you restart). I tried several settings for saving the configuration ("Save Configuration on Exit On", "Save Current Configuration", "Save New Configuration" etc.) but nothing worked. When i "Save Core/Game Remap File", then my changes are also gone immediately.

Thanks and best regards
joinski

G3rald

I have the same problem with the button mapping in Gamecube.
I found out that the GCpadnew.ini gets written every time Dolphin gets started.
Therefore i cannot change the button mapping in Dolphin directly.
Does somebody know witch script writes the GCpadnew.ini file?

G3rald

I found the solution.
press F1 and go to /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/configgen/generators/dolphin open the dolphinControllers.py file.
There you can change the button mappings for gamecube and wii.

Kossay

G3rald hi, can u be more specific about the path for the config file?

G3rald

Kossay The dolphinControllers.py file is not a config file. It is a script that generates a config file every time you start a Gamecube or Wii game.
You have to find the file on your batocera installation and modify the part where the Button is matched with the Gamecube Button.
You can only find the file when batocera is running. Log in via ssh or press F1 on a plugged in Keyboard which will drop you to a filemanager.
There you have to go to the upmost level of the file hierarchy / and then follow the path i wrote in my second post.

tonificante

The solution of G3rald is working perfectly for me (tested with mario kart double dash for game cube). However, when I reboot batocera, the changes are gone. How can I make the changes to be permanent between reboots?

joinski

tonificante

try this:
https://batocera-linux.xorhub.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:modify_the_system_while_it_s_running

tonificante

joinski Thanks, it worked!!