controller help, please im loosing my mind lol

nosboss

I have batocera running on an older amd pc inside an arcade cabinet, its been a ton of work to get it this far and everything up to gamecube is running amazingly, only issue im having is getting controllers to work properly. i have a generic usb n64 controller that i cant get mapped in emupen for the life of me. ive ran jstest, i have all the button information, ive written it into mupen64plus.cfg and emulationstation es_input files and nothing is working. i also have a switch usb gamecube controller that ive been able to map perfectly for dolphin and mupen64 but the issue is i have to remap the controller any time i want to switch between gamecube and n64. every "solution" i seem to find is for recalbox and not batocera. can anyone please help me out with this im loosing my mind trying to get this working properly. even if theres a way to bypass emulation station auto remapping the controls so i can have the gamecube controller work for both systems without remapping would be great. thanks in advance

BZZ

nosboss majority of solutions for recalbox will also work in batocera. What exactly did you try so far ?

Did you try creating *.conf in the game folder with the line to custom controller setup? Like for example in this recalbox 'how to': https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/How-to-use-custom-config-for-emulators-(EN)

nosboss

So far ive ran j-test and copied all controller information down in notepad, then used that information to create a custom mapping in \batocera\share\system\configs\mupen64\mupen64plus.cfg. i added the line n64.config=dummy to the batocera.cfg to bypass auto mapping (guide said to add that to recalbox.cfg but i cant find that file) . Ill post the controller information i got and my custom mapping file below. Another problem im having is a lot of the guides to fix this with recalbox seem to have folders and files that i cant seem to locate on batocera like this guide here https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Configure-N64-controllers-(EN). i do not have /usr/share/mupen64plus/InputAutoCfg.ini i tryed creating it on my own but it had no effect. im assuming im just missing something obvious here. Following the link you posted I created "n64.cfg" in the retroarch folder and pasted my custom mapping into that file then added the line n64.configfile=\BATOCERA\share\system\configs\retroarch\n64.cfg to the batocera conf file and still no luck 🙁

mupen64plus.cfg mapping:

[Input-SDL-Control1]

Version = 2
mode = 0
device = 1
name = "Generic USB Joystick"
plugged = True
plugin = 2
AnalogDeadzone = "0,0"
AnalogPeak = "32768,32768"
mouse = False
Mempak switch = ""
Rumblepak switch = ""
C Button R = "button(1)"
A Button = "button(6)"
C Button U = "button(0)"
B Button = "button(8)"
Start = "button(9)"
L Trig = "button(4)"
R Trig = "button(5)"
Z Trig = "button(7)"
DPad U = "hat(0 Up)"
DPad D = "hat(0 Down)"
DPad R = "hat(0 Right)"
DPad L = "hat(0 Left)"
Y Axis = "axis(1-,1+)"
X Axis = "axis(0-,0+)"
C Button D = "button(2)"
C Button L = "button(3)"

jstest information:

a =
Event: time 1568574105.253990, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90007
Event: time 1568574105.253990, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 294 (BTN_BASE), value 0
Event: time 1568574105.253990, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------

b = Event: time 1568574133.897972, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90009
Event: time 1568574133.897972, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 296 (BTN_BASE3), value 0

z = vent: time 1568574155.678915, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90008
Event: time 1568574155.678915, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 295 (BTN_BASE2), value 0

c up =
Event: time 1568574177.019921, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90001
Event: time 1568574177.019921, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 288 (BTN_TRIGGER), value 0
Event: time 1568574177.019921, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------

c left =
Event: time 1568574201.248525, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90004
Event: time 1568574201.248525, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 291 (BTN_TOP), value 0

c down =
Event: time 1568574213.262811, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90003
Event: time 1568574213.262811, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 290 (BTN_THUMB2), value 0

c right = Event: time 1568574236.179621, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90002
Event: time 1568574236.179621, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 289 (BTN_THUM😎, value 0

start = Event: time 1568574251.097529, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 9000a
Event: time 1568574251.097529, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 297 (BTN_BASE4), value 0

LT =
Event: time 1568574276.853915, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90005
Event: time 1568574276.853915, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 292 (BTN_TOP2), value 0

RT = Event: time 1568574290.571988, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90006
Event: time 1568574290.571988, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 293 (BTN_PINKIE), value 0

d up =
Event: time 1568574316.048389, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 17 (ABS_HAT0Y), value 0

d left = Event: time 1568574337.149455, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 16 (ABS_HAT0X), value 0

d right = Event: time 1568574409.155352, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 16 (ABS_HAT0X), value 0

d down =
Event: time 1568574429.552489, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 17 (ABS_HAT0Y), value 0

Joystick Name: 'Generic USB Joystick '
Joystick Path: '/dev/input/event3'
Joystick GUID: 03000000790000000600000010010000
Joystick Number: 0
Number of Axes: 5
Number of Buttons: 12
Number of Hats: 1
Number of Balls: 0
GameController:
Name: 'DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystick'
Mapping: '03000000790000000600000010010000,DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystic k,a:b2,b:b1,back:b8,dpdown:h0.4,dpleft:h0.8,dpright:h0.2,dpup:h0.1,leftshoulder: b4,leftstick:b10,lefttrigger:b6,leftx:a0,lefty:a1,rightshoulder:b5,rightstick:b1 1,righttrigger:b7,rightx:a3,righty:a4,start:b9,x:b3,y:b0,'
Axis code 0: 0
Axis code 1: 1
Axis code 2: 2
Axis code 3: 3
Axis code 4: 5
Button code 0: 288
Button code 1: 289
Button code 2: 290
Button code 3: 291
Button code 4: 292
Button code 5: 293
Button code 6: 294
Button code 7: 295
Button code 8: 296
Button code 9: 297
Button code 10: 298
Button code 11: 299
Hat code 0: 16