xtension emulator edition plus with Nestopia

[planetary]

Hey folks,

Background: Loving Launchbox so far, with the Xtension Emulator Edition Plus stick.  It reads as a keyboard, which is perfect, since my main application is MAME, and it worked out of the box. Within Launchbox, I have other emulators set up.  Most are configured as cores inside Retroarch.  One of those is Nestopia.

I've gone through the effort of entering all my player 1 controls into Retroarch, with no core loaded.  The joystick's associated keyboard keys are  numpad8, numpad5, etc.

When I load a NES game:
1) buttons are fine, including A, B, and Select -- apparently my global controller config is carried through for buttons!
2) ...but the player1 joystick doesn't respond

In retroarch, hitting F1, you get to a quick menu and the D-pad controls *do* reference the global Retroarch labels, i.e. D Pad Up for up, etc.  And when I navigate over to the global player 1 controls, it indeed shows D Pad up as "numpad8" -- which is exactly the keyboard key associated with pushing the keystick up.

Am I missing something basic?  Any ideas?

[planetary]

Found a solution.

The correct values for these D-pad settings are "up", "down", "left", and "right".

I was messing around on YouTube, and accidentally hit the joystick to the right and noticed that the video advanced 5 seconds -- which would only happen if the stick was sending a left arrow key.  (Not an "L" key, as that advances a full 10 seconds.)  So I put two and two together, and edited retroarch.cfg, searched for player1_up, and so forth, and replaced the values. 

Bingo, worked.

Now on to the fact that the SNES emulator isn't picking up even the default core configs. 

Edited October 12, 2018 by planetary

[tvguy]

On 9/30/2018 at 5:11 PM, planetary said:

Found a solution.

The correct values for these D-pad settings are "up", "down", "left", and "right".

I was messing around on YouTube, and accidentally hit the joystick to the right and noticed that the video advanced 5 seconds -- which would only happen if the stick was sending a left arrow key.  (Not an "L" key, as that advances a full 10 seconds.)  So I put two and two together, and edited retroarch.cfg, searched for player1_up, and so forth, and replaced the values. 

Bingo, worked.

Now on to the fact that the SNES emulator isn't picking up even the default core configs.  

Dude, thank you so much. This was making me completely batty. I couldn't figure out why my ipac joystick wasn't working. Something so simple and it's fixed. Thanks a bunch for this solution.