Odd Controller Issue

ogami1972

Hello!

I have built two arcade controllers, and a having an odd problem with the “player 2” controller. Please ask questions if i fail to describe this well.

The attached photo demonstrates the layout. In Batocera, both controllers are detected and configure normally. Each controller is set to player slots (1 and 2, using elimination to make sure each is set correctly). At this point, both controllers will navigate the menus correctly.

The issue starts after a game is launched; in all experiments, it has been an FBNeo game. suddenly, the player 2 buttons are oddly swapped (clockwise top to bottom: B,X,A,Y, and shoulder and trigger buttons swapped). After exiting the game, player 2 retains this, with, for instance, the top button acting as “B/Confirm”. If i reconfigure in Batocera, it goes back to normal. If I launch a game, it swaps again.

Anyone know what is going on?

Atari

You seem to have forgotten your photo. Unless you’re talking about your avatar.
Anyway, report this as a bug to the github. Reproduce your appropriately scrubbed support file both before and after the “switch”.

ogami1972

will do asap. in the meantime, I just made a small paper map and taped it to the tabletop. when i make a keymap, I just adjust it to fit reality. For example, for most arcade games, I like the top three buttons. For P1, this is X, L1 and R1; for P2, it’s B, L2 and R2.

The pic doesn’t upload, so here is a link to an album. If leaving links isn’t cool, let me know :)

https://photos.app.goo.gl/4t4fMBqwmHWZPmEi8

Atari

Are you using a single encoder for both players? It could just be that the encoder itself is having the issue, try to rewire it so the affected buttons are switched.
btw, that’s a pretty cool setup, wish you luck in getting this sorted out.

ogami1972

hello! Thank you! High praise, indeed!

No, separate encoders. It’s the “EG Starts 1 player” pack from amazon. I bought one, made sure it worked well, then bought the other, along with a set of octagonal gates.

I’ve added pics of the innards to the album if you want to refresh your link.. Don’t make fun of my cable management on the red one, lol, there was a lot of troubleshooting and i haven’t put it back together yet 😁.

Atari

ogami1972 Hm, from the looks of that, it doesn’t seem like there’s any daisy-chaining going on. That’s very odd then, there should be no issues whatsoever.
Guess the only thing left at this point is for the issue report with all the support file information to get looked at to see what’s happening on Batocera’s side.