flylear45

I see not a lot has been answered on these forums with questions on the ipac 2. Here's where I am right now trying to fine-tune my horizontal cabinet built with 2 joysticks/6 buttons per player, trackball, and 4 select/start buttons. I was having issues getting everything set up with the default keyboard emulation provided in the stock firmware. I was not able to have the controller be seen as a JOYPAD by windows........ none of the keypresses registered in the Windows joystick setup screen. That made setting a hotkey problematic in BigBox without running a script, and made Retroarch setup a pain in many cases. IF your Ipac 2 is 2015 or later, there is a firmware update available to bring it to version 314. It allows the inputs to be seen as JOYPAD inputs OR keypresses in the programming software. I set mine up with my P1 joystick and 5 buttons to be read as JOYPAD in the software and now Windows sees it as a POV hat and 5 buttons. (I use 1 button on each player as mouse buttons along with my trackball as a mouse.) This configuration now gets passed along to Windows programs like LaunchBox. Not perfect but good enough to be able to have LaunchBox use it to set a hotkey. Programming buttons in Retroarch is much more user friendly as well. I just needed to re-map my controls one time in Mame General Settings, and for each game with unique settings where the old KEYBOARD inputs are now JOYPAD inputs. There may be a better way to set it up that I haven't come across, but this is what I am going to roll with. I'm going to look into getting the joysticks to register as joystick instead of POV hat......... I'll update if I get that sorted. Cheers, Jim

Sorry I can't help there. I do have an idea that I think would make Retroarch better for us, but can't log on to give input. I have multiple controllers, and it would be GREAT if I could identify and configure them all on Retroarch, then have it prompt me on starting a game which one I want to use. It is frustrating at the least to have no choice other than to unplug everything except the one (s) I want and hope the controller gets recognized correctly. If anyone knows a way to do this let me know. If you think it's a good idea and have access to the ears of the makers, help me out!

I don't know if it's on here but Retropie (which is AWESOME on a Pi2 BTW) has a graphic mapping of all types of controllers and how they are best mapped as a Retropad in Retroarch. I found it helpful. https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration

Here's a helpful post that dovetails with the latest video on the Launchbox tutorial Youtube site. Just when I think I have it figured out I find a new way to blunder. http://libretro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4912

Same here. The latest Tutorial finally got me over the hump with where to place bios, etc. THANK YOU!!!!!!!

BOOYA! Got it. The UI wasn't updating the ROM path for some reason...... The fix was to go into the MAME folder (mameuifx64 for me) and manually edit the mame.ini in wordpad to input the correct rom path. Not sure why the MAMEUIFX64 UI isn't working right all of a sudden. It never gave me issues before. That's certainly not a Launchbox problem, so I'll just say to anyone else having problems to check that .ini before you go any further. EDIT: I had a similar issue getting the trackball enabled. The settings were not being passed from the UI to the .ini and had to be manually edited.

I don't think it's a RL issue, I am having that problem as well without it. Titles launch fine with mameuifx64, but not after importing. I get the same errors as kedhrin. Thanks for working on this.