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Completely stumped trying to set up control panel joystick to work with retroarch


DannyShane

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Hello, i am really stumped. i read everything online i could possibly read and still stumped. 

I have an arcade cabinet with buttons and joysticks etc.  using an ipac4. 

In retroarch, i am unable to get the joystick to work.  The buttons work though.  Ive mapped the joystick to the D-pad, to the analog left stick, etc but nothing works.  My joystick keys are Keypad 8 (up) keypad 2 (down) etc.. and when i test out a game, my joystick will not work, but the actual keypad buttons on my keyboard do work.   Also, my buttons on my control panel work too.  so it's just the joystick for some reason. 

I attached an image,  i set "user 1 device type' and 'analog to digital type' to every possible combination. 

i did successfully map an xbox 1 controller. but im trying to set all my emulators up to use my arcade cabinets control panel (except for games that require two sticks).

has anyone gotten retroarch to work with their arcade cabinet joysticks?  if so please share how you did it. its driving me nuts. its 7AM and still havent slept yet. lol. 

 

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...just re-read that you tried "every possible combination".  I have an I-Pac 2 (which should be the same, just less players) and that's how it's setup. 

My Left Joystick uses actual Up, Down, Left, Right (and Right uses R, F, D, G). They're mapped to the D-pad (like you're showing) and I have nothing mapped to Analog)

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Hey man thanks for sharing your snapshot.  I deleted my cfg file to start all over again and i left it as up, down, left, right,  like you have yours set to and its working.   I think thats weird because my jpystick is not my arrow keys, it is num keys.    like if i try and set my up mapping in retroarch and i use my joystick it will set it to a num key.  not an arrow key.  so that is confusing but as long as it works im good. lol. 

i appreciate the help. 

 

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In the back of my mind, I think I had that issue (frickin frustration) too. lol  RA takes the input of the joystick as keypad 8 (up) and not arrow-up (like where the I-Pack has it assigned).  I think I ended up manually configuring RA using the arrow keys.  But that was back when I was just starting with RA and figuring out how to configure the input.  Although I still don't dare delete the config file thinking "I got it figured out now" and try redoing it. :) 

Glad it's working.

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