Jumping from Retropie to BigBox on an Arcade Cabinet

[vicfrankenstein]

So I've got an arcade cabinet and have been salivating over Bigbox for a while, so I finally got a PC and made the jump.  I've bought a license and everything is hooked up.  I've got 4 players set up with Zero Delay USB Encoders.  Most of the how-to on set up go into how to set up controllers like X-box.  Not many go into how to set up Arcade Cabinets.  Could someone point me in the right direction?

It's little things like in Retropie, I knew in a game, I'd set up a hotkety (Select&Start) to enter retroarch and fine tune the controllers if I needed to.  Here I don't even know how to get into retroarch without backing out and running it from Windows.  

I've haven't even found out where to do the initial game controller set up and mapping....  I'll admit it after thinking I knew how to use retropie, I've went to being completely lost in Bigbox.

Any help or pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!

[damageinc86]

i think retroarch is like F2 to get to the menu, even when you are in-game.  It's something like that.  Shouldn't be too hard to do that.  Aren't those arcade controls natively mapped to keyboard presses?

[DOS76]

Zero Delay encoders are seen as generic ganepads and not keyboards

[vicfrankenstein]

Thanks, I'll try F2.  That seems easy enough.

[vicfrankenstein]

3 hours ago, DOS76 said:

Zero Delay encoders are seen as generic ganepads and not keyboards

Is there anywhere to reorder them as far as player 1, etc?  Also map the buttons?

 

I know Windows is supposed to have something, but not sure where.