Good Tutorial On Button Mapping?

[Muzikarcade]

Hi everyone!
I recently rebuilt my Lunchbox collection after about three years of being away from it. I have a RecRooms Game cabinet with an emulation plus controller deck on it. The deck has a 2-player, 6-button layout, a trackball, a separate 4-way stick, and duel button controls for arcade games like Pac-Man.

Below is a link to the actual deck so you can take a look:
https://recroommasters.com/product/2-player-plus-arcade-controller/

I’m looking for some assistance with mapping the buttons to the emulators within Lunchbox (tetrarch), as well as those consoles that run on separate emulators, Dolphin, Xbox etc. I want to avoid using separate external controllers where possible and use the built-in buttons for the arcade games category. However, since the deck has only 6 buttons, I’m concerned that it may be limited to games above the Sega Genesis. Some more recent consoles and PC games require more button and bumper functionality.

I would greatly appreciate any help you can provide.
Thanks
MA

Edited Monday at 01:42 PM by Muzikarcade

[Gygoracdes]

Nice gadget ...  but over $500, almost $600!

I'd rather stick with my simple PS2 controller.

[JoeViking245]

31 minutes ago, Gygoracdes said:

Nice gadget ...  but over $500, almost $600!

I'd rather stick with my simple PS2 controller.

Not very helpful. But point taken.  

Granted, it does take away from the joy of having a cab, certain emulated systems just "need" to be played with a controller.

[Gygoracdes]

3 hours ago, JoeViking245 said:

Not very helpful. But point taken.  

Granted, it does take away from the joy of having a cab, certain emulated systems just "need" to be played with a controller.

Nobody here on the forum has this thing... I'm guessing ?

What exactly needs to be added to this post to make it helpful, since nobody has it?

Lol 

 

[JoeViking245]

3 hours ago, Gygoracdes said:

Nobody here on the forum has this thing... I'm guessing ?

What the actual control panel is, is only necessary to know if can be set to keyboard, x-input and/or d-input mode.  Well, the number of players and buttons helps too.  Beyond that, the panel name, brand or cost is insignificant.

 

3 hours ago, Gygoracdes said:

What exactly needs to be added to this post to make it helpful

If someone were to have a cab that has 2 players, each having a joy and 6-buttons, and have successfully set it up to use with RetroArch (various platforms), Dolphin, Xemu and the sort, sharing which mode they used, and the mappings made is what would make it helpful.