BigBox, SteamLink and Dolphin Issue

[YoshiFtJ]

Hello everyone!

I tried to do some searching but I can't seem to find an answer.

 

I have BigBox mode all configured and I use it through my SteamLink. Everything is working dandy, except Dolphin.

 

Dolphin will load a game, but pressing B on my Xbox controller will exit the emulation and throw me back to BigBox.

I had a similar issue with PCSX2, but a helpful user here posted a solution to use the --nogui tag with the launcher, and sure enough that worked.

Unfortunately, it looks like Dolphin doesn't have such a tag. 

If someone could solve this for me, I'd be very grateful!

[Zombeaver]

I use a Steam Link + Big Box and Dolphin. Strangely though I don't recall having to setup anything particularly special in order for Dolphin to work via the Link. I'll take a look at my settings tonight though.

How do you have your controller setup with the Link? You have to disable keyboard+mouse mode for it to work properly with some emulators - it should just look like this. I also recommend disabling the steam overlay as that too can interfere with emulators.

Here are a couple of posts I made over on the Steam Link forums quite some time ago that you may find useful as well:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/353380/discussions/0/485622866440318860/

http://steamcommunity.com/app/353380/discussions/0/485623406943314193/

[YoshiFtJ]

Disabling overlay didn't solve the issue.

My solution as of now is using the 'Render to main window' in the Dolphin GPU settings. Maybe my GPU configuration is clashing with BigBox?

[Zombeaver]

Doubtful.

Again, how is your controller configured in Steam Big Picture? It needs to be setup to never function as mouse+keyboard.

On 10/5/2016 at 2:44 AM, YoshiFtJ said:

pressing B on my Xbox controller will exit the emulation and throw me back to BigBox.

This is a big red flag for me that it likely has to do with how your controller is configured in Big Picture.

It should look like this in the configuration:

 

[YoshiFtJ]

I know I had to change some settings for pcsx2 so I think it's set correctly but I'll give it another shot. I have everything disconnected for a move at the moment, once it's back up I'll report back.

[Zombeaver]

The main reason this is important is because the Link/Big Picture attempt to figure out what kind of application you're running and modify the controller output (traditional controller or desktop navigation) accordingly. Most traditional PC games will correctly be picked up as needing the normal controller mode but for some emulators it just doesn't understand what they are and falls back into desktop (mouse+keyboard emulation) mode and the B button sends a back/escape input by default in that mode. If you remove all of the desktop mode controls (so that A can only send an A input, B can only send a B input, the joystick doesn't send mouse inputs, etc.) you basically force it to only function as normal controller regardless of whether or not the Link/Big Picture think that's what you should be using for the task.