Dual Dragonrise - Mappings stepping on eachother?

TanSam

I’ve been looking at multiple discussions online, here and other forums.
I have two Dragonrise (Zero Demo, Aliexpress USB encoders) and when they are both plugged in, I do the normal setup with mapping the joy and buttons. But when I go into the games, it seems the player 2 is the active. I didn’t have a hotkey set for player 2 so I cannot exit the game properly. I swap the USB ports and it works with P1 being the active controller for coin and hotkey.
The user joy and buttons are wired and mapped the same but to save space on the build. I didn’t give player 2 a coin or hotkey. This seems to break things…

Has this been fixed or is it related to my setup?

I read these
https://forum.batocera.org/d/4567-cannot-get-two-player-configuration-to-work
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8921/when-i-map-player-2-s-controls-it-changes-player-1-s-controls/8

Aynshe

Hi,
I have the same concerns with my terminal, the two joystick switches P1 or P2, a restart solves the problem.
The problem would come from the fact that the two “DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystick” share the same hardware identifier.
Unless I am mistaken, the V33 should correct the problem?
In the current changelog:

fix: duplicate pads no longer share an ID, allowing multiple identical controllers to be used for multiplayer

Salut,
J’ai le même soucis avec ma borne, les deux joystick bascule P1 ou P2, un redémarrage résout le problème.
Le problème viendrait du fait que les deux “DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystick” partagent le même identifiant matériel.
Sauf erreur la V33 devrait corriger le problème ?
Dans le changelog en cours :

fix: duplicate pads no longer share an ID, allowing multiple identical controllers to be used for multiplayer

TanSam

I’ve upgraded to Batocera v33 since indeed the release notes say it’s been fixed. I’m also going to try and wire the same button to both boards (instead of drilling new holes and adding more buttons)

TanSam

Rewired bot ports to the same button - didn’t work. Batocera saw both boads pressing buttons and didn’t accept the mapping.

upgraded to version 33. That didn’t do anything as my 2 dragonrise (zero delay) controllers were swapped somewhere… still having the same issue.

Aynshe

TanSam
Apart from some wine / proton games which don’t work with both joysticks at the same time or the few times where the joystick reverses at startup, I don’t have too much problem.

In the parameters of batocera I do not select the joysticks, I leave in “by default”, I left to batocera the choice of the majority USB ports “Player 1” at startup.
I am under Windows, I also seem to have had less trouble by connecting the usb ports directly to the back of the motherboard.

I manually select only for the use of an external controller to the arcade machine.

Pour ma part en dehors de certain jeux wine/proton qui ne fonctionne avec les deux joystick en même temps ou les quelques fois ou les joystick s’inverse au démarrage, je n’ai pas trop de problème.

Dans les paramètres de batocera je ne sélectionne pas les joystick , je laisse en “par défaut”, j’ai laissé à batocera le choix du ports usb “Player 1” majoritaire au démarrage.
Je suis sous Windows, il me semble également avoir eu moins de soucis en connectant les ports usb directement à l’arrière de la carte mère.

Je sélectionne manuellement seulement pour l’utilisation d’une manette externe à la borne d’arcade.

TanSam

Thanks for the help… I’m not sure why the joys reverse but it seems to happen when I configure player2.

I’m guessing this is because I have two boards that are the same.. but one has a hotkey and the other does not….. I wish I could just statically configure them with fixed ID’s and names and have them both work. Seems it’s not the case, even with v33…

TanSam

Merci Aynshe!

I’m guessing there should be many othes with similar issues…

Aynshe

TanSam

You have the same type of card:

This is how my es_input.cfg is configured

Originally unless I’m mistaken, it is this file which already has a default configuration for DragonRise:

https://github.com/CEnnis91/batocera.linux/blob/master/board/batocera/fsoverlay/usr/share/batocera/datainit/system/configs/emulationstation/es_input.cfg

Vous avez le même type de carte :
……………………….
Voici comment est configuré mon es_input.cfg
………………………
D’origine sauf erreur, il s’agit de ce fichier qui a déjà une configuration par défaut :

https://github.com/CEnnis91/batocera.linux/blob/master/board/batocera/fsoverlay/usr/share/batocera/datainit/system/configs/emulationstation/es_input.cfg

TanSam

Aynshe

Quick question for you. Your hot key is the sale as your select key?

Those are two dragonrise controllers with the same ID?

Aynshe

TanSam

Hi,

Yes it’s the same ID, see in my preceded reply.

Yes le button number 5 for select and hotkey.
<input name=“hotkey” type=“button” id=“5” value=“1” code=“293” />
<input name=“select” type=“button” id=“5” value=“1” code=“293” />

Both joysticks have the same configuration, the only difference is that I have two buttons on the Player 2 which I did not install, I use two buttons on the Player 1 joystick for pinball games.

shotkar

Aynshe Hello, i try in english. i have 2 dragonrise usb controllers on my pc with batocera V32. i have probleme with sega model 2 and 3 but not really important. But with fpinball that is. The application crash when i start a game. it play only if i put off the 2nd controller. i have 6 buttons for player 2 and 8 for player 1 (6 + 2; 1 on the left (L2) 1 on the right (R2) for pinball). Start and select for player 1 but only start for player 2 ( i take coins with the first player select button). do you have a solution for me, don’t put off my 2nd player to play fpinball ? i hope so. thank’s a lot

TanSam

Thanks Aynshe. How do you select the same button for hotkey and select. Wouldn’t that trigger an emulator exist since the normal combination to exit is Hotkey + Select ?

What if you just want to click only select?

Also, I found that if I configure player 2 second and try to leave some button out (like I don’t have select wired) then it overrides player 1..

Does your Player 1 and Player 2 switch sometimes?

Aynshe

TanSam
For me button “select” is also “hotkey”, “hotkey+start” kill emulator, also “select” add credit in arcade emulator and “hotkey” with other button allows access to in-game libretro options.

Player2 switches to Player1 from time to time and only during a start or restart, but it’s not too embarrassing for me since it happens maybe once in 10, a simple restart solves the problem.

TanSam

Aynshe

This helps a lot thanks Aynshe.. I will be added the extra buttons and not trying to save space with buttons :)

What I find frustrating is that my P1 and P2 change, like you said… I have no idea why it happens but if I not at the game, trying to tell someone to reboot isn’t fun…

TanSam

As an update to this post. I added additional buttons so that both controllers (USB Zero Delay) have a Select, Start and Hotkey….

Then I confiogure controller 2 first, then controller 1. Sometimes it seems to swap them (have to use player 2 Hot+Select to exit) and when that happens, I just change the USB ports.

Seems to work at the moment. The v33 upgrade didn’t fix it for me but adding the additional buttons did.

Merci Aynshe Aynshe for the help

ben781

I realize this thread was from January but wanted to see if I could help weigh in. Experienced the same thing. I ordered my USB Zero Delay from GeekPub, they’re unlabeled but either dragonrise or easyget controllers. For reference I’m running a Pi4 and V33 of Batocera. Anyway, same issue: P1 and P2 swap immediately.

What I discovered while mapping and attempts at remapping was that Batocera was always detecting the right side controls and numbering them first no matter what. Right side (Player 2) would be called like Controller 9 and then the left side (Player 1) would automatically be called Controller 10 so no matter what P1 and P2 were going to swap. Even if I changed player 1 and 2 controls manually in Batocera and restarted it didn’t fix it.

THE FIX: Started the machine up with only P1 controls plugged in. Mapped them, restarted. Plugged in P2 and because they’re wired the same I didn’t map P2 at all. Then manually set Player 1 to - #0 Generic USB Controller and Player 2 to #1 Generic USB Controller in Batocera’s controller settings. Restarted again just to confirm. Works as advertised.

thedetoxie

Hi All, for anyone having weird issues with Dragonrise USB Encoders, I found a solution for my issue where P1 and P2 kept switching (or P2 kept being primary).

Anyway, I searched around and found some references to adding this string: usbhid.quirks=0×0079:0×0006:0×040

The problem was that most places recommended adding it to boot/cmdline.txt, but that file doesn’t exist in Batocera. Rather, you have to add it to boot/uEnv.txt at the end of the APPEND line. So mine looks like this (note I also set my resolution custom):

APPEND=label=BATOCERA rootwait quiet loglevel=0 console=ttyAML0,115200n8 console=tty3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 video=HDMI-A-1:1600×1200@60 usbhid.quirks=0×0079:0×0006:0×040

Once that is done, you restart the system (I wasn’t able to edit the file directly, I had to take my storage out and edit it on a computer) and then you reconfigure only your primary Player 1 controller. After that it should all stay the same, even after reboots etc.

Hope that works for everyone else having issues with DragonRise USB Encoders.

Atari

thedetoxie Adding this to the wiki, thanks for finding a solution.

bonkie

thedetoxie Hi! I can’t seem to find the location of “boot/uEnv.txt”. I took the sd card out of the pi and put it in my mac. But I don’t see the eEnv.txt file. What am I doing wrong?

KingDiamond

Hello all!!

I have the same problem as bonkie. I cannot find the file to write the code with the solution. I also took the sd card out of the pi4 to my PC and follow the route "boot/uEnv.txt.

Can anybody help with this matter?

Thank you in advance.