Batorcera 35 problem with mame buttons

bkrstmuse

I just upgraded to 35 and my buttons for Mame that were working fine are not working anymore.

What’s going on is some of the buttons seem to be duplicate of other buttons. I tried two different kinds of controllers (one wired and one Bluetooth) but same problem. Tried remapping in configuration menu but the remap doesn’t seem to register the requested buttons.

This problem doesn’t seem to exist on other emulators.

przemo3336

in advanced game settings try to change emulator from auto to mame

bkrstmuse

Update:

It turns out it’s only Mame 079 that’s causing this problem.

Wca

I just upgraded from v33 to v35 and encountered the same issue on rpi4 with a MAME2003plus romset that’s been working beautifully on rpi4 batocera since at least v30.

The issue persists across all controllers (well, I have PS3 and PS4 to test with and both are affected), and affects titles with or without existing remap files. I’ve updated my BIOS files and show no missing files.

I’ve been trying some different titles and the issue seems random - some titles are affected, others not, and I can’t put my finger on a common variable. Bank Panic and Metal Slug 2 are good titles for replicating the issue reliably.

I don’t know if this helps, but game remap files do not appear to load upon launching a game that has one (no “Game Remap File Loaded” message appears as it typically does) but do appear loaded when viewing the retroarch menu. The button mappings in the menu are correct, and the remap file shows as being loaded - but the multiple button press issue remains regardless.

Any suggestions are welcome, I love this project and would really like to take advantage of some of the improvements as of late but for now I’m stuck on v33 :)

jaaem

Wca I am no expert, but I think the remap location was changed between v33 and v34

\\batocera\share\system\.config\retroarch\config\remaps\ (batocera v33)

\\batocera\share\system\configs\retroarch\config\remaps\ (batocera v34)

My controllers were messed up until I deleted the v33 remaps when upgraded to v34 . v34->v35 was no issue. Perhaps try copying the remaps to the new folder. If that doesn’t work, ping them on discord.

Wca

jaaem

Unfortunately, this doesn’t appear to be the cause(I have no remaps under old configs, and just to be safe I deleted the few in the new config directory). I only mentioned the remapping stuff for the purpose of trying to diagnose the issue. To be clear, this issue is not confined to games with individual remap files.

Looking into this further, there’s a reddit thread here with users describing the same issue on batocera x86 with MAME 0.246:

And the following comment specifically states “Retroarch changed the way the MAME maps controllers, and I’m not sure those cores got adjusted.”

I have no idea if that is accurate or the cause of the problem but it’s the best I’ve come up with so far. :)

jaaem

Wca ok. good luck. I think there was some discussion in discord about this, but I thought that was for v36. Might be best to ask there, much more active

tovarichtch

https://github.com/batocera-linux/batocera.linux/issues/7198

Wca

This issue can be fixed by setting Controller to Lightgun to OFF in the MAME Advanced System Settings. According to the github thread linked above, this will be disabled by default in future builds. Big thanks to TVsIan for solving!

hangsun

Wca So, this is per game setting? what if you want to play lightgun game n MAME?