ASUS ROG ally big box

[WDPL]

I’ve just set everything up on launchbox on my pc in anticipation of the ROG ally arriving. I have purchased premium so I can use bigbox. Just a quick question about Gamepad set up and how o go about that. Any help will be greatly appreciated 

[C-Beats]

LaunchBox and Big Box both have controller support that can be changed in the options menu. Just tell it you want to use whatever controller device the Ally registers as (or can just check "Enable All Controllers") and then set the bindings to the buttons you want them to be on.

[PsychoKiller]

3 hours ago, C-Beats said:

LaunchBox and Big Box both have controller support that can be changed in the options menu. Just tell it you want to use whatever controller device the Ally registers as (or can just check "Enable All Controllers") and then set the bindings to the buttons you want them to be on.

Hi there. I have been a member for the android version for a while now, but I just bought the windows ver for the ROG Ally also and having tons of problems. When trying to play something, the buttons were all wrong. The B button would pause the game, and there was no button to jump and the X and Y buttons would do a page down feature and not clean the button.  I went into options to see about changing the keymapping, but think I did something wrong. I no longer have access to my enter/select button. Think I might have cleared that so now I cant choose anything in my menus. Do I need to reinstall the program to get it functioning again? Thank you. 

[C-Beats]

Not ENTIRELY sure I'm following you. Are you having issues with keybindings inside of Big Box, or inside of your game? If inside your game you're going to need to change your emulator settings.

[PsychoKiller]

Sorry, you responded so fast. lol. Im having problems with both. In game, when I hit the B button, it would pause the game and say "press again to quit". I tried adjusting the controller layout but it wouldn't let me because it would say to press X to clear the command but pressing X would do a page up/ page down thing. So I decided to try and adjust the controller in Big Box, but when I tried to adjust the buttons, the A button does nothing now. So I can't select options, or a game or do anything. Now Im wondering what to do? Should I just reinstall the whole app again? Thanks. 

[C-Beats]

1 hour ago, PsychoKiller said:

Sorry, you responded so fast. lol. Im having problems with both. In game, when I hit the B button, it would pause the game and say "press again to quit". I tried adjusting the controller layout but it wouldn't let me because it would say to press X to clear the command but pressing X would do a page up/ page down thing. So I decided to try and adjust the controller in Big Box, but when I tried to adjust the buttons, the A button does nothing now. So I can't select options, or a game or do anything. Now Im wondering what to do? Should I just reinstall the whole app again? Thanks. 

Just got an Ally today and it's shed some light on potential issues you may be running into. Ally has a "control mode" that can be assessed in Amory crate (or it's quick menu that is accessed by the bottom most function key located to the left of the screen). I JUST got through all the darn Windows/Asus updates so haven't tested Big Box with it, but I'd assume that because of how Big Box control logic works that you will need to force the Ally into "Gamepad" control mode for Big Box to see the inputs we use for controller mapping. If you NEED KB+M control mode you may need to set up a profile in Armory Crate to tie the navigation bindings to the correct ROG Ally buttons (similar to using something like Xpadder)

[PsychoKiller]

1 hour ago, C-Beats said:

Just got an Ally today and it's shed some light on potential issues you may be running into. Ally has a "control mode" that can be assessed in Amory crate (or it's quick menu that is accessed by the bottom most function key located to the left of the screen). I JUST got through all the darn Windows/Asus updates so haven't tested Big Box with it, but I'd assume that because of how Big Box control logic works that you will need to force the Ally into "Gamepad" control mode for Big Box to see the inputs we use for controller mapping. If you NEED KB+M control mode you may need to set up a profile in Armory Crate to tie the navigation bindings to the correct ROG Ally buttons (similar to using something like Xpadder)

I will have to check this out because I have not been using armory crate to launch it, I have been launching directly through the app itself. I feel your pain when it comes to all those updates and then installing games. It's a great system but took me pretty much a whole day before I actually got to play it. Lol. I'll try the armory crate launch just to see if that fixes it. I'll post my findings.

[C-Beats]

7 hours ago, PsychoKiller said:

I will have to check this out because I have not been using armory crate to launch it, I have been launching directly through the app itself. I feel your pain when it comes to all those updates and then installing games. It's a great system but took me pretty much a whole day before I actually got to play it. Lol. I'll try the armory crate launch just to see if that fixes it. I'll post my findings.

Just so we're clear the profile switch CAN be configured per app, but is also a global setting. Basically the device tells Windows it's a KB+M and a controller, then switching between control modes changes what one Windows thinks you're using.

[neil9000]

37 minutes ago, C-Beats said:

Just so we're clear the profile switch CAN be configured per app, but is also a global setting. Basically the device tells Windows it's a KB+M and a controller, then switching between control modes changes what one Windows thinks you're using.

Its likely B is set to escape too as a generic "back" button in K&M mode, so that would certainly close emulators with B if thats the case.

Edited June 20, 2023 by neil9000

[PsychoKiller]

Yes, I tried launching with Armory Crate and just using the shortcut LaunchBox creates. I've also tried using multiple emulators like NES and SNES and both do the same thing so I am not sure if its retroarch settings that have to be changed, but ill do my best to explain what is happening. 

 

Regardless of how I launch the program this happens. When I launch the Launchbox program, everything seems to work fine. Buttons work, dpad works, etc. When I launch Bigbox, everything works also, like dpad, buttons to select game, etc. Once the game is up and running, and I get into game play, the A button seems to do two functions. When I press A button, the game will pause, when I hit it again the game unpauses and my character jumps. If I hit the B button I get a message that pops up saying "press again to exit". If I press B again it will take me back to bigbox menu where I can select a game. I've tried to make changes to the controller, but the buttons it says to press don't work as intended. For instance, the keybindings say to clear what one of the buttons does, Im to hit X to clear the binding, but when I hit X, it does a page down or up. Same with the Y button. So X and Y both act like page up and page down, so I cannot clear the keybind and assign a new one. Im sure it has something to do with the unit and compatibility, almost like its detecting the controller but also thinking its a keyboard, etc. I hope this clears up what is happening. Hope your getting better results with your new ROG Ally. 

 

Thank you. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[C-Beats]

I'm not real sure what to call the buttons on the device but if you press the one this image points to in the tray that opens up the icon (that by default) is in the middle of the top most row it will change you control mode for ALL applications. Make sure this is set to "Gamepad" and not "Keyboard" or "Auto"

[C-Beats]

Talking about this

[neil9000]

35 minutes ago, PsychoKiller said:

Yes, I tried launching with Armory Crate and just using the shortcut LaunchBox creates. I've also tried using multiple emulators like NES and SNES and both do the same thing so I am not sure if its retroarch settings that have to be changed, but ill do my best to explain what is happening. 

 

Regardless of how I launch the program this happens. When I launch the Launchbox program, everything seems to work fine. Buttons work, dpad works, etc. When I launch Bigbox, everything works also, like dpad, buttons to select game, etc. Once the game is up and running, and I get into game play, the A button seems to do two functions. When I press A button, the game will pause, when I hit it again the game unpauses and my character jumps. If I hit the B button I get a message that pops up saying "press again to exit". If I press B again it will take me back to bigbox menu where I can select a game. I've tried to make changes to the controller, but the buttons it says to press don't work as intended. For instance, the keybindings say to clear what one of the buttons does, Im to hit X to clear the binding, but when I hit X, it does a page down or up. Same with the Y button. So X and Y both act like page up and page down, so I cannot clear the keybind and assign a new one. Im sure it has something to do with the unit and compatibility, almost like its detecting the controller but also thinking its a keyboard, etc. I hope this clears up what is happening. Hope your getting better results with your new ROG Ally. 

 

Thank you. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your controls in emulators have no relation to the settings in Launchbox or Bigbox, the settings for this in Launchbox/Bigbox are for those applications only. again it sounds very much like you are not in controller mode, you need to do that and im pretty sure Retroarch will then work correctly, at the moment its seeing a keyboard and mouse and not a controller.

[PsychoKiller]

ok, so I did that, chose gamepad and everything works until the game launches. Once in the game, nothing works, no buttons, no Dpad, etc. If I change it back to auto the buttons start working again, but only like before where the A button pauses game, then when I hit it again it unpauses and jumps. lol. Im thinking it might be something inside retroarch settings but my problem is that I can't even access that ingame since the buttons don't do what they are suppose to do. Sorry, Im new to this so Im trying to learn while getting this device up and going. 

[WDPL]

I would maybe try connecting a keyboard and mouse and accessing the setting menu that way. Then you can see what keybind is set to certain buttons. Let me know how you get on 

[PsychoKiller]

ok, so I completely uninstalled launchbox and reinstalled it. Seems to have fixed it for NES at least, but now I don't know how how to exit the game to go back to main menu. tried multiple button combinations, and finally had to just go to desktop and close app that way. Any idea how to exit game? Believe it use to be hold start and select at same time, but that didn't work for me. 

Gonna try snes now, Ill post my findings. 

[neil9000]

10 hours ago, PsychoKiller said:

ok, so I completely uninstalled launchbox and reinstalled it. Seems to have fixed it for NES at least, but now I don't know how how to exit the game to go back to main menu. tried multiple button combinations, and finally had to just go to desktop and close app that way. Any idea how to exit game? Believe it use to be hold start and select at same time, but that didn't work for me. 

Gonna try snes now, Ill post my findings. 

Its whatever you yourself set, you can either set it in Launchbox/Bigbox and they will handle it, or set it in the emulator itself, nothing like that is pre configured as different people like different buttons for shortcuts.

[noah2fr3sh]

That was the problem for me I had to hit the button and change in to gamepad and then I used a keyboard and mouse to go into retro arch key map and reset the buttons and works great thank you this was driving me insane

[Thornfist]

On 6/20/2023 at 1:29 PM, PsychoKiller said:

ok, so I did that, chose gamepad and everything works until the game launches. Once in the game, nothing works, no buttons, no Dpad, etc. If I change it back to auto the buttons start working again, but only like before where the A button pauses game, then when I hit it again it unpauses and jumps. lol. Im thinking it might be something inside retroarch settings but my problem is that I can't even access that ingame since the buttons don't do what they are suppose to do. Sorry, Im new to this so Im trying to learn while getting this device up and going. 

I am having this exact problem and am unsure how to resolve it.

[nataliavegas]

I have the same issue. Following to hopefully get a solution for the Rog Ally to make this work