Controllers by platform

[jazzm]

Hey. Had to reset up an arcade machine that I purchased when the original launch box stopped working. I am reinstalling games and used retroarch as the emulator for most of them. 

Is there a way to set up different controllers for differe t platforms if they all use retroarch? 

Using an Xbox controller and works fine for some platforms e.g. GameCube but want to set up old games to use arcade buttons e.g. Atari or SNES. 

Or do I have to use different emulators if I want to use different controllers

Edited September 27, 2023 by jazzm

[Knowcontrol]

• Open RA by itself, not through LB.
• Load a core for the desired system.
• Go to Settings>Input>Hotkeys (set hotkeys - especially the first one Hot Key Enable)
  • then go down to Port 1 Controls. Set your buttons.
• Go to Main Menu>Load Content - load a game corresponding to the core you loaded.
• When the game has started, use the button combo or keyboard combo to access the Quick Menu.
• Press [up] four times to find the Overrides option, enter it.
• Press [up] twice to save core overrides. This will save your configuration for this specific core.
• Repeat the process for all other cores/systems.
  
  
  
  *** You may or may not want to enable Settings>Configuration>Save Configuration on Quit depending on whether or not you want to save your RA configuration globally or per core (this is needed when you want to apply a specific shader and/or overlay automatically on when launching a game from a particular platform from within LB. This would be done with Main Menu>Configuration File>Save New Configuration. You would set Extra Command Line Parameters as such:

[jazzm]

On 9/27/2023 at 10:26 PM, Knowcontrol said:

• Open RA by itself, not through LB.
• Load a core for the desired system.
• Go to Settings>Input>Hotkeys (set hotkeys - especially the first one Hot Key Enable)
  • then go down to Port 1 Controls. Set your buttons.
• Go to Main Menu>Load Content - load a game corresponding to the core you loaded.
• When the game has started, use the button combo or keyboard combo to access the Quick Menu.
• Press [up] four times to find the Overrides option, enter it.
• Press [up] twice to save core overrides. This will save your configuration for this specific core.
• Repeat the process for all other cores/systems.
  
  
  
  *** You may or may not want to enable Settings>Configuration>Save Configuration on Quit depending on whether or not you want to save your RA configuration globally or per core (this is needed when you want to apply a specific shader and/or overlay automatically on when launching a game from a particular platform from within LB. This would be done with Main Menu>Configuration File>Save New Configuration. You would set Extra Command Line Parameters as such:

Great thanks that seems to have worked. Still having a few issues with some of them but working through them