Brilliant tutorial built my arcade machine about 12 months ago and could never figure out retroarch controls never occured to me that u have two sets of controls one for the physical devices nd one from the retropad to the emulator u have made it so simple to understand thank you i can mow have another go at configuring everything
I'm so glad to hear this resonated and helped out! I know I had a lot of struggles with RetroArch and I hear many people just give up and use the native emulators out of frustration.
Impressive tutorial and love your devotion to the purity of the experience! Especially all the work you did with the Bezel art! I often found myself taking an insane amount of hours trying to manually move the screen scaling to match the overlays screen openings. Would love to see if you had a faster technique to get them into place with the least amount of steps. Also would like to know how you had multiple presets for overlays to be changed on the fly, that was pretty mind blowing. Subscribed!
Hi Fred, there will be a video on shaders down the road. I want to cover all the foundations of cores and a second video on mapping controllers for Retroarch. I wrote a python script to configure the 70k plus games for the various bezel presets. I'm not a coder, so it took a while.
My God finally someone quickly convey succinctly how to set up THANK YOU VERY MUCH🤩😍🥰 Now I can switch 99% to retro Arch💪💪💪💪💪 I am waiting for more, and most of all for a video on how to configure other controllers + mechanism ;)
Thank you for the feedback! RetroArch is quite powerful when you get the hang of it. As for additional inputs, I'm guessing things such as spinners, trackballs and light guns? Yes, I have a laundry list of topics I want to cover. I have been receiving hundreds of emails on the drive, so trying to stabilize that so I can go back to content.
Thanks for such a great video man. I can now play my snes games again! I have a long way to go to learn retroarch, but I just wanted to let you know that you are the man..
Hi Jasen. That was very helpful. You got a new subscriber! I never realized you can do per game mapping in retroarch. Do you recommend this way over remapping through MAME's menu configuration? That's how I've always done it.
Yes and no. For example, in NBA jam, MAME has button 1 as "Turbo" but on the actual control panel, turbo sits under the Shoot & Jump buttons, so I believe that should be MAME's button 3. On a keyboard encoder, I want my Button 1 to be shoot, Button 2 to be jump and Button 3 to be turbo. So when I disagree with how mame laid out the default button layout, I'll do per game overrides in mame, otherwise I remap Retroarch to match MAME if MAME has it right, but Retroarch doesnt. I'll be releasing a video soon on configuring Retroarch with keyboard encoders (Think IPAC and Keywiz) and some of the default MAME keyboard mapping "issues" If you leave MAME be, you can also remap the Retroarch controller to match the MAME backend.
Hey Jasen.. great video.. u summed up in 20 mins what it takes months of trial and error and endless nights down the retroarch rabbit hole to figure out... what I don't get is how are u having the arcade controls and controllers working at the same time
Thatnks! I hope this is helpful, there are a lot more gotchas I will be covering. Multi port mapping (Joystick and wireless controllers) will be covered in future tutorial videos, perhaps part 3 of the controller mapping series.
Would it be possible to share your core remap files for the popular systems? I have always been confused by retro arch controls and gave up on it many times… This was very helpful!
How to multimode for ipac users next? Or use a third party application (like xbox360ce) to play pc games with arcade sticks? Looking forward to the next tutorial
I actually started with multi mode and mixed mode. With the dinput/xinput modes I got into controller order issues so I went back to keyboard. Also, switching to Xinput wasn't reliable that it would switch back and forth. I can certainly make a video about my experiences with all that just to end up with keyboard mode again. :)
It really is a HF but I finally worked it out a few months back.... Mapping the tribute 64 to N64 emu, the 8bitdo M30 to Saturn, Genesis and PCE, and an xbox one elite for everything else (that was the easy one, easy as pie but you need to work out which buttons on different controllers are equivalent to the buttons on a standard xbox x input layout). This is one area where OpenEmu on mac just shites on RA.. just plug in any controller and then it shows a pic of the console's real controller, you click and map in realtime. SO easy. I can't understand why RA doesn't do something like this. Same with artwork. But everything else, RA is amazing, like zero latency play and many other things which is why I stick to it for the retro consoles especially.
Yes, that's one thing I like about configuring the Xemu controller, a nice visual aid. I could at least make artwork to help people understand the mapping. The default controller config files at github.com/libretro/retroarch-joypad-autoconfig/tree/master/dinput are supposed to do the mapping properly. I'll have to experiment with more controls to see if I can help people streamline this better.
@@IntegrumRetro Well my M30 pad seems to be there in the list but by default it doesn't have even remotely correct mapping in RA. Besides the start button every other button is wrong. This is with genesis plus GX core. SO maybe *I* don't know how to use these profiles? Do I need to manually load them then save them for the core? Never done this.
@@teddym2808 From Retroarch maine menu, go to settings, inputs. Then remap however many M30 pads you have and click on "save controller profile." It will save the profile in ~retroarch/autoconfig/dinput directory (meaning that's where you can delete it if it goes wrong). When you start up retroarch you should see a popup showing it recognizes your controller and then it will apply the remaps you made. But of course, you'll need to know examples like Retroarch Y Button = A, B, or C button on a genesis controller? So load up a game you know well so you can figure out how the retropad is default mapped to the Genesis core, then you can program your controller accordingly. Do it once, and email me your controller profile at jasen@integrumretro.com because I'd like to gather all the proper remap files I can. =)
Thank you. Im coming back here to get the instructions. Just got retro ach and I am not liking how the system is mapping my Sega Saturn controller. It's confusing. I am subscribing!
Just remember, you map your controller to retroarch.. then you may the retroarch controller to the emulator. Main Menu - Settings - Input (Your controller to Retroarch) Quick Menu - Inputs (Retroarch Controller to the Emulator)
You've been extremely helpful and I appreciate it, so I'm hesitant to ask for help, but, !y new controller just came, before I could map anything, my keyboard began to fall, and I caught it. Apparently, I remapped something by mistake. When I press my b button, Master volume comes up and I can't figure out how to shut it off. Is there a way to reset a rom? I tried clearing retro.cry but the settings in the ROM remain. I'm confident that I can map my controller following your instructions, but I could use some help with this ROM.
@@amitypredator9385 While in the game, pull up the retroarch Quick menu. Go to Overrides and there should be an option to delete the game override. That will cause the game to go back to the default configuration. Secondarily, from the same quick menu, go to Controls, choose Port 1 and delte any remaps for the game (not core or directory remaps).
@@IntegrumRetro thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! i managed to get the controls back to what I wanted over the weekend, after a lot of trial and error, but I'd rather just start fresh with it. I will get started with yo8ur tutorial after that. Thanks again, fellow gamer!
EDIT 3: I installed the latest X-Box drivers and set the QanBa to X-Box on the hardware device. Now all joystick movements can be manually be configurated. In games tho, it is partially necessary - if stuttering movements occur - to press the QanBa´s "TURBO" buttom + moving in the stuttering direction, until everything is running smooth. I don´t know why that is. Only exception so far is DIG DUG, which doesn´t work at all with the QanBa Joystick. Keep in mind, I am only using the ATARI 2600 core with Retroarch! EDIT 2: Forget it, actually Chopper Command is the only game, QanBa works korrekt with joystick movement...I´m really annoyed by now. EDIT 1: I finally solved the issue and got the QanBa Plus Q4 to work. I updated the Joystick profiles and autoconfigured it (retroarch did everything). Now the left analog stick is set to "forced" and the config entries say "AXIS..." and not "Hat"! The "MODE" funktion on the QanBa has to be set OFF to work with the games. Maybe that helps someone, who has had similar trouble. ------------ This is a fantastic tutorial. Thank you so much. I still can't configure the analog stick of the Qanba Q4. Whenever I move the left analog stick up or down for configuration, retroarch goes mad and doesn't save the movement. It´s like this: "Hat #0 up" and "Hat #0 down" just don´t save the movement. The buttons and left analog stick "left" and "right" works as it should. Can I fix this somewhere, maybe in a config-file? I have no clue. All settings are done in "Controler One" menu. "Quanba Joystick Plus" is shown and recognized. Analog to Digital is set to "left analog stick". In games, the joystick doesn´t work at all (only the buttons), even not the configured left and right movements. It´s so annoying.😢Can you help me? PS. X-Box controller is perfectly working btw. And the QanBa is perfectly working under the standalone MAME emulator.
OK yes your tutorial is all about the traditional x input Xbox layout, but the problem is when you want to use various third party controllers, for example with 6 face buttons, or an N64 controller with a totally different layout, or a GameCube controller, or arcade stick etc. The issue is finding out which button matches which button on the Xbox layout and it's a nightmare to do. Well, trial and error.. This is something where retroarch truly is overly complex and crazy where they could simply add a live input mapping per core. For example, you load up a genesis game. You start the proposed input mapper. And then you just turn on and grab which controller you want to use for the genesis core, and as the core asks in sequence "press to map to A button", (with A button being of course A on a genesis controller), you press whatever key you want on the controller to equal the genesis a button, and so on. Done in 30 seconds max. Like the way Kega fusion does it. You can choose any controller and quickly map that in real time as you like. I will keep pushing for a script to be added that can do this, but I doubt I will get anywhere as I have been trying for years LOL. Anyway I will give an example for anyone who wants to use the fantastic 8bitdo M30 Left bumper = left bumper on xbox one *Right bumper equals left trigger on xbox one* *Z = right bumper on xbox one* *C = right trigger on xbox one* All the other buttons match a geneis controller, x = x, y = y, a = a and b = b, start = start but you'll still need to change those too as all the genesis cores are mapped incorrectly to this kind of controller by default.
If you have a genesis controller you can point me to, I'll buy it and make a video about it. What I like about Retroarch is the autoconfiguration files included for Dinput/Xinput devics. But they don't have them all. Point me to the controller you use and I'll configure it properly and submit the changes to the Retroarch contoller library on github so all future releases will have an auto config for that controller. You can look up the controller profiles (Dinput, I'm assuming the controller you have is Dinput) at github.com/libretro/retroarch-joypad-autoconfig/tree/master/dinput
Hey bro, any chance you can help me translate N64 controls for The World is not Enough for an Xbox controller? Having a hell of a time trying to button map
@@teddym2808 left trigger to aim, right to shoot. Left stick to move forward and back left and right to strafe. Right stick to look up down and left and right.
can you make a video on how to setup Retroarch to work with a set of Aimtrack guns, also a video on to get MAME to work as MESS and what commands to use to take avantage of the power of MESS...TIA
Yes, I plan on doing more lightgun videos. Some cores will support light gun games well and some don't work so well, but I'll cover those details. As for MESS, that emulator was combined with the MAME core years ago, so it's all just MAME now.
@@IntegrumRetro Yes but there are commands that can be used thru LB/BB that some people may not know about in order to get roms to work the same way they work with MESS and the same goes for the neccessary files to make MAME work like MESS...even now I still struggle with this emu...I think it will make a good video due to new updates of MAME and other emus that have been swallowed up by Retroarch...just a thought!
@@Eli0569 Oh, yes, I'll do a video on running the mame core from retroarch and then importing into LB. One of the big things I learned is don't have any spaces in the directory path when pointing to MAME games using the mame_libretro core. You will pull your hair out trying to figure out how the command line is being parsed.
Thank you! Would love to hear any upcoming requests you may have. My next series will focus on an introduction to the MAME emulator and get into all sorts of nuances. You have to know that before you start using it in Retroarch IMO.
@@IntegrumRetro More detailed videos of MAME, RetroArch and LaunchBox especially when they are stacked . Videos like this one, also videos on shaders and other video filters. Better/how to, scraping. Just someone to go through every RetroArch option and explain it. I have been using MAME since about 1998 and MAME like RetroArch are about as non-intuitive as a program can be. Also, Launchbox categories and playlist are not very intuitive. Also if you have virtual Pinball knowledge it would be great to share.
Jason, thank you so much for this great tutorial. Unfortunately, I accidentally entered "auto-program" and subsequently lost all d-pad function, bricking the rg35xx. I did open the msdc on a mac and copy over the entire cfw/retroarch/retroarch file on the msdc with the same file in BlackSeraph's Copypastontopofstock.7z update file, but it didn't change anything. I tried to get into the specific /CFW/retroarch/.retroarch/config folder to replace that specific file only, but I can't even access or see said file when I open the folder (I'm using a mac). Any ideas, please advise. My RG35XX is running Garlic 14.9. I have an old pc laptop, but it's Windows 7. Thanks
I have a windows 10 pc and downloaded retroarch and have been following but when you get to "Device Type" in inputs, my retroarch doesn't say that at top, only analog to digital type and device index. Is there a specific retroarch to download to play on my pc with my 2020 Xbox controller?
Oh, it sounds like you are in the "quick menu" which is the default menu when you are in game. Go to the MAIN menu, then settings, then you can manage the mapping for your xbox controller in the INPUTs section.
i have the problem as, retroarch has forced layouts/auto-detects that dont account for buttons. on my joytokey, I can see all buttons but some numers are shifted. retro counts "0" , Joy starts from "1". I want to write config scripts because some are wrong . I have an usb n64 controller, but the detection is a mess. so i want to write one from scratch. is that possible and how please.
Yes, load retroarch without any game. Go into Settings - Inputs and select port 1. Change the controller to the one you want to modify. Remap the buttons the way you feel they should be on your controller and click on save controller profile. This will make an auto config profile in /retroarch/autoconfig/xinput or Dinput depending on what your device supports. But now it should load every game with your new profile. I've also seen that winkyness when what I thought was an xinput device was being seen by windows as a dinput device. Checking where your autoconfig file gets saved (xinput dir or Dinput dir) will confirm which your controller is being seen as.
Final Burn libretro core? It's all the same. That's the nice thing about retroarch, you can auto configure your controllers for retroarch, then select how they get remapped per core or just use the default mapping.
@@IntegrumRetro Thanks so much, from one Jason to another! I thought I was doing something wrong, but apparently my Xbox controller decided to die around the time I started setting up my tablet. The bumpers and triggers showed on the tablet but they just didn't work. Got a new controller and all seems good at the moment. I know you're busy but if you could answer this I'd appreciate it : even though the new controller works, I still can't get the triggers to work. Specifically with street fighter 3rd strike. I can set strong punch and strong kick to left and right bumpers, but I can't set anything to the triggers, which would be more comfortable to me. Is this common?
Do u know how to make my Xbox controller look down for retroarch dolphin fatal frame 4 on the series s. I've been looking for days on forums for settings or a fix to help me play fatal frame 2 and 4 on Wii
I need help quite badly. I’ve spent 10 hours on this and I can’t seem to get my controller to work at all in the any game that I downloaded for Retroarch. It works perfectly in the menu but not in any game. If you could help me out that would be great.
I offer a paid consulting service to fix RetroArch issues and I've already worked on dozens of machines. Email me at jasen@integrumretro.com if you are interested.
The service button will be in the game mame settings under " Set controls for this game only" default is F2 for the service button if you can't activate it via dip switches
So confusing to me , When I first started messing around with this retro arch stuff I had no problems with my xbox series x controller then all of a sudden my B button turbos everything nothing works
Hello. I have retroarch on Xbox Series S. Iam not able to figure out how to set the controller for twin stick action MAME game Smash TV. The right analog iam not able to work..please help me. I made this system running specially for this game and iam in dead end. Please help.
You have to go into the emulator core settings and map the second analog stick. For me, I'm running the mame core, so I go into the mame menu in smashtv and map it from within mame since it doesn't have a default secondary controller config.
Hello Jason if at all possible please can you share your configuration file with me I have a 2 player megacade with ipac and Xbox controllers I would love my arcade sticks and my controllers to work on all my games I also love the comic books my wife is really into comics and that’s just amazing if at all possible please let me know thank you so much
@Fess Rose email me at jasen@integrumretro.com I have a Megacade as well, and it's a bit more complex than a single config file but I can jump on a call and explain why.
It may not recognize it for what it's for, but you can map it to most any of the virtual controller functions. For example, you could map it to the exit game hotkey.
Yes, my tool works on all the emulators on my drive and with all the major lightguns. I only make. It available on my drive. jasen@integrumretro.com if you'd like more details.
What? That arcade binding is all kind of wrong, even in the arcade the punch buttons are the top row and kicks on the bottom row. So it would be LP, MP on X and Y and LK, MK, on A and B, HP on LB and HK on RB. Hahaha I'm not sure why you prefer punch on the bottom, lol, that's so weird to me.
Buddy, as a noob, this helped me out tremendously. Thank you!
Absolutely. I hope this saves time. It took me a while to learn all this which I feel is a big barrier to everyone enjoying emulation.
Brilliant tutorial built my arcade machine about 12 months ago and could never figure out retroarch controls never occured to me that u have two sets of controls one for the physical devices nd one from the retropad to the emulator u have made it so simple to understand thank you i can mow have another go at configuring everything
I'm so glad to hear this resonated and helped out! I know I had a lot of struggles with RetroArch and I hear many people just give up and use the native emulators out of frustration.
Having a hell of a time trying to button map for The World is Not Enough (N64/Xbox controller) to a modern control setup
Impressive tutorial and love your devotion to the purity of the experience! Especially all the work you did with the Bezel art! I often found myself taking an insane amount of hours trying to manually move the screen scaling to match the overlays screen openings. Would love to see if you had a faster technique to get them into place with the least amount of steps. Also would like to know how you had multiple presets for overlays to be changed on the fly, that was pretty mind blowing. Subscribed!
Hi Fred, there will be a video on shaders down the road. I want to cover all the foundations of cores and a second video on mapping controllers for Retroarch. I wrote a python script to configure the 70k plus games for the various bezel presets. I'm not a coder, so it took a while.
Awesome straight to the point video on the layered mapping found in Retroarch! Dope!
Coming from Dantron, that's a real compliment.. I'm aware of your skills.. ty!
@@IntegrumRetro you flatter me…
Thank you so much for taking the time to make such a thorough video. This will help me so much!!
You are very welcome! Please let me know which topics you'd like to see next!
Excellent thorough video! Thank you!
My God finally someone quickly convey succinctly how to set up THANK YOU VERY MUCH🤩😍🥰
Now I can switch 99% to retro Arch💪💪💪💪💪
I am waiting for more, and most of all for a video on how to configure other controllers + mechanism ;)
Thank you for the feedback! RetroArch is quite powerful when you get the hang of it.
As for additional inputs, I'm guessing things such as spinners, trackballs and light guns? Yes, I have a laundry list of topics I want to cover. I have been receiving hundreds of emails on the drive, so trying to stabilize that so I can go back to content.
Thanks for such a great video man. I can now play my snes games again! I have a long way to go to learn retroarch, but I just wanted to let you know that you are the man..
Awesome! These take a while to put out so it's much appreciated to hear your feedback and how this is helping.
Hi Jasen. That was very helpful. You got a new subscriber! I never realized you can do per game mapping in retroarch. Do you recommend this way over remapping through MAME's menu configuration? That's how I've always done it.
Yes and no. For example, in NBA jam, MAME has button 1 as "Turbo" but on the actual control panel, turbo sits under the Shoot & Jump buttons, so I believe that should be MAME's button 3. On a keyboard encoder, I want my Button 1 to be shoot, Button 2 to be jump and Button 3 to be turbo. So when I disagree with how mame laid out the default button layout, I'll do per game overrides in mame, otherwise I remap Retroarch to match MAME if MAME has it right, but Retroarch doesnt. I'll be releasing a video soon on configuring Retroarch with keyboard encoders (Think IPAC and Keywiz) and some of the default MAME keyboard mapping "issues" If you leave MAME be, you can also remap the Retroarch controller to match the MAME backend.
This is the best tutorial I ever witnessed, thanks man
I will gladly take that feedback! Tyvm.
Hey Jasen.. great video.. u summed up in 20 mins what it takes months of trial and error and endless nights down the retroarch rabbit hole to figure out... what I don't get is how are u having the arcade controls and controllers working at the same time
Thatnks! I hope this is helpful, there are a lot more gotchas I will be covering. Multi port mapping (Joystick and wireless controllers) will be covered in future tutorial videos, perhaps part 3 of the controller mapping series.
Would it be possible to share your core remap files for the popular systems? I have always been confused by retro arch controls and gave up on it many times… This was very helpful!
I've built configuration files for every platforms. That's the only way to do all this cleanly.
How to multimode for ipac users next? Or use a third party application (like xbox360ce) to play pc games with arcade sticks? Looking forward to the next tutorial
I actually started with multi mode and mixed mode. With the dinput/xinput modes I got into controller order issues so I went back to keyboard. Also, switching to Xinput wasn't reliable that it would switch back and forth.
I can certainly make a video about my experiences with all that just to end up with keyboard mode again. :)
Great tut, solved my problems
Excellent video. Hope this will help when Omega comes out
Hope so!
Excellent video and keep them coming...
Thank you for thorough video.
Yes, just email me at jasen@integrumretro.com
Awesome video. So If I own the same pad I can just download your file and replace it? Where do we find all the mapping cfg files to download?
It really is a HF but I finally worked it out a few months back.... Mapping the tribute 64 to N64 emu, the 8bitdo M30 to Saturn, Genesis and PCE, and an xbox one elite for everything else (that was the easy one, easy as pie but you need to work out which buttons on different controllers are equivalent to the buttons on a standard xbox x input layout).
This is one area where OpenEmu on mac just shites on RA.. just plug in any controller and then it shows a pic of the console's real controller, you click and map in realtime. SO easy. I can't understand why RA doesn't do something like this. Same with artwork. But everything else, RA is amazing, like zero latency play and many other things which is why I stick to it for the retro consoles especially.
Yes, that's one thing I like about configuring the Xemu controller, a nice visual aid. I could at least make artwork to help people understand the mapping. The default controller config files at github.com/libretro/retroarch-joypad-autoconfig/tree/master/dinput are supposed to do the mapping properly. I'll have to experiment with more controls to see if I can help people streamline this better.
@@IntegrumRetro If you're ever in front of a mac check out the mapping in openemu. My goodness it's easy.
@@IntegrumRetro Well my M30 pad seems to be there in the list but by default it doesn't have even remotely correct mapping in RA. Besides the start button every other button is wrong. This is with genesis plus GX core. SO maybe *I* don't know how to use these profiles? Do I need to manually load them then save them for the core? Never done this.
@@teddym2808 From Retroarch maine menu, go to settings, inputs. Then remap however many M30 pads you have and click on "save controller profile." It will save the profile in ~retroarch/autoconfig/dinput directory (meaning that's where you can delete it if it goes wrong). When you start up retroarch you should see a popup showing it recognizes your controller and then it will apply the remaps you made.
But of course, you'll need to know examples like Retroarch Y Button = A, B, or C button on a genesis controller? So load up a game you know well so you can figure out how the retropad is default mapped to the Genesis core, then you can program your controller accordingly. Do it once, and email me your controller profile at jasen@integrumretro.com because I'd like to gather all the proper remap files I can. =)
Thanks for another great video
Thanks for watching!
Thank you. Im coming back here to get the instructions. Just got retro ach and I am not liking how the system is mapping my Sega Saturn controller. It's confusing.
I am subscribing!
Just remember, you map your controller to retroarch.. then you may the retroarch controller to the emulator. Main Menu - Settings - Input (Your controller to Retroarch) Quick Menu - Inputs (Retroarch Controller to the Emulator)
@@IntegrumRetro Thanks so much!
You've been extremely helpful and I appreciate it, so I'm hesitant to ask for help, but, !y new controller just came, before I could map anything, my keyboard began to fall, and I caught it. Apparently, I remapped something by mistake. When I press my b button, Master volume comes up and I can't figure out how to shut it off.
Is there a way to reset a rom? I tried clearing retro.cry but the settings in the ROM remain.
I'm confident that I can map my controller following your instructions, but I could use some help with this ROM.
@@amitypredator9385 While in the game, pull up the retroarch Quick menu. Go to Overrides and there should be an option to delete the game override. That will cause the game to go back to the default configuration.
Secondarily, from the same quick menu, go to Controls, choose Port 1 and delte any remaps for the game (not core or directory remaps).
@@IntegrumRetro thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! i managed to get the controls back to what I wanted over the weekend, after a lot of trial and error, but I'd rather just start fresh with it. I will get started with yo8ur tutorial after that. Thanks again, fellow gamer!
EDIT 3: I installed the latest X-Box drivers and set the QanBa to X-Box on the hardware device. Now all joystick movements can be manually be configurated. In games tho, it is partially necessary - if stuttering movements occur - to press the QanBa´s "TURBO" buttom + moving in the stuttering direction, until everything is running smooth. I don´t know why that is. Only exception so far is DIG DUG, which doesn´t work at all with the QanBa Joystick. Keep in mind, I am only using the ATARI 2600 core with Retroarch!
EDIT 2: Forget it, actually Chopper Command is the only game, QanBa works korrekt with joystick movement...I´m really annoyed by now.
EDIT 1: I finally solved the issue and got the QanBa Plus Q4 to work. I updated the Joystick profiles and autoconfigured it (retroarch did everything). Now the left analog stick is set to "forced" and the config entries say "AXIS..." and not "Hat"! The "MODE" funktion on the QanBa has to be set OFF to work with the games. Maybe that helps someone, who has had similar trouble.
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This is a fantastic tutorial. Thank you so much. I still can't configure the analog stick of the Qanba Q4. Whenever I move the left analog stick up or down for configuration, retroarch goes mad and doesn't save the movement. It´s like this: "Hat #0 up" and "Hat #0 down" just don´t save the movement. The buttons and left analog stick "left" and "right" works as it should. Can I fix this somewhere, maybe in a config-file? I have no clue. All settings are done in "Controler One" menu. "Quanba Joystick Plus" is shown and recognized. Analog to Digital is set to "left analog stick". In games, the joystick doesn´t work at all (only the buttons), even not the configured left and right movements. It´s so annoying.😢Can you help me?
PS. X-Box controller is perfectly working btw. And the QanBa is perfectly working under the standalone MAME emulator.
OK yes your tutorial is all about the traditional x input Xbox layout, but the problem is when you want to use various third party controllers, for example with 6 face buttons, or an N64 controller with a totally different layout, or a GameCube controller, or arcade stick etc. The issue is finding out which button matches which button on the Xbox layout and it's a nightmare to do. Well, trial and error.. This is something where retroarch truly is overly complex and crazy where they could simply add a live input mapping per core. For example, you load up a genesis game. You start the proposed input mapper. And then you just turn on and grab which controller you want to use for the genesis core, and as the core asks in sequence "press to map to A button", (with A button being of course A on a genesis controller), you press whatever key you want on the controller to equal the genesis a button, and so on. Done in 30 seconds max. Like the way Kega fusion does it. You can choose any controller and quickly map that in real time as you like. I will keep pushing for a script to be added that can do this, but I doubt I will get anywhere as I have been trying for years LOL.
Anyway I will give an example for anyone who wants to use the fantastic 8bitdo M30
Left bumper = left bumper on xbox one
*Right bumper equals left trigger on xbox one*
*Z = right bumper on xbox one*
*C = right trigger on xbox one*
All the other buttons match a geneis controller, x = x, y = y, a = a and b = b, start = start but you'll still need to change those too as all the genesis cores are mapped incorrectly to this kind of controller by default.
If you have a genesis controller you can point me to, I'll buy it and make a video about it. What I like about Retroarch is the autoconfiguration files included for Dinput/Xinput devics. But they don't have them all. Point me to the controller you use and I'll configure it properly and submit the changes to the Retroarch contoller library on github so all future releases will have an auto config for that controller.
You can look up the controller profiles (Dinput, I'm assuming the controller you have is Dinput) at github.com/libretro/retroarch-joypad-autoconfig/tree/master/dinput
Hey bro, any chance you can help me translate N64 controls for The World is not Enough for an Xbox controller?
Having a hell of a time trying to button map
@@joshwilley3173 Xbox is easy. How do you want it set up, dual stick?
@Teddy M I want it setup how a modern xbox game is to be played. Dual stick yeah
@@teddym2808 left trigger to aim, right to shoot. Left stick to move forward and back left and right to strafe. Right stick to look up down and left and right.
Thanks a lot for this infos!
Glad it was helpful!
can you make a video on how to setup Retroarch to work with a set of Aimtrack guns, also a video on to get MAME to work as MESS and what commands to use to take avantage of the power of MESS...TIA
Yes, I plan on doing more lightgun videos. Some cores will support light gun games well and some don't work so well, but I'll cover those details. As for MESS, that emulator was combined with the MAME core years ago, so it's all just MAME now.
@@IntegrumRetro Yes but there are commands that can be used thru LB/BB that some people may not know about in order to get roms to work the same way they work with MESS and the same goes for the neccessary files to make MAME work like MESS...even now I still struggle with this emu...I think it will make a good video due to new updates of MAME and other emus that have been swallowed up by Retroarch...just a thought!
@@Eli0569 Oh, yes, I'll do a video on running the mame core from retroarch and then importing into LB. One of the big things I learned is don't have any spaces in the directory path when pointing to MAME games using the mame_libretro core.
You will pull your hair out trying to figure out how the command line is being parsed.
Great Content!😊
Thank you! Would love to hear any upcoming requests you may have. My next series will focus on an introduction to the MAME emulator and get into all sorts of nuances. You have to know that before you start using it in Retroarch IMO.
@@IntegrumRetro More detailed videos of MAME, RetroArch and LaunchBox especially when they are stacked . Videos like this one, also videos on shaders and other video filters. Better/how to, scraping. Just someone to go through every RetroArch option and explain it. I have been using MAME since about 1998 and MAME like RetroArch are about as non-intuitive as a program can be. Also, Launchbox categories and playlist are not very intuitive. Also if you have virtual Pinball knowledge it would be great to share.
Jason, thank you so much for this great tutorial. Unfortunately, I accidentally entered "auto-program" and subsequently lost all d-pad function, bricking the rg35xx. I did open the msdc on a mac and copy over the entire cfw/retroarch/retroarch file on the msdc with the same file in BlackSeraph's Copypastontopofstock.7z update file, but it didn't change anything. I tried to get into the specific /CFW/retroarch/.retroarch/config folder to replace that specific file only, but I can't even access or see said file when I open the folder (I'm using a mac). Any ideas, please advise. My RG35XX is running Garlic 14.9. I have an old pc laptop, but it's Windows 7. Thanks
Figured it out. Replaced the whole CFW
I have a windows 10 pc and downloaded retroarch and have been following but when you get to "Device Type" in inputs, my retroarch doesn't say that at top, only analog to digital type and device index. Is there a specific retroarch to download to play on my pc with my 2020 Xbox controller?
Oh, it sounds like you are in the "quick menu" which is the default menu when you are in game. Go to the MAIN menu, then settings, then you can manage the mapping for your xbox controller in the INPUTs section.
i have the problem as, retroarch has forced layouts/auto-detects that dont account for buttons. on my joytokey, I can see all buttons but some numers are shifted. retro counts "0" , Joy starts from "1". I want to write config scripts because some are wrong . I have an usb n64 controller, but the detection is a mess. so i want to write one from scratch. is that possible and how please.
Yes, load retroarch without any game. Go into Settings - Inputs and select port 1. Change the controller to the one you want to modify. Remap the buttons the way you feel they should be on your controller and click on save controller profile. This will make an auto config profile in /retroarch/autoconfig/xinput or Dinput depending on what your device supports. But now it should load every game with your new profile.
I've also seen that winkyness when what I thought was an xinput device was being seen by windows as a dinput device. Checking where your autoconfig file gets saved (xinput dir or Dinput dir) will confirm which your controller is being seen as.
How did you get to the Retroarch menu while in the middle of playing Contra?
F1 on the keyboard
Perhaps Im missing it, but can you do a video on how to configure for Final Burn? Or is it basically the same?
Final Burn libretro core? It's all the same. That's the nice thing about retroarch, you can auto configure your controllers for retroarch, then select how they get remapped per core or just use the default mapping.
@@IntegrumRetro Thanks so much, from one Jason to another! I thought I was doing something wrong, but apparently my Xbox controller decided to die around the time I started setting up my tablet. The bumpers and triggers showed on the tablet but they just didn't work.
Got a new controller and all seems good at the moment. I know you're busy but if you could answer this I'd appreciate it : even though the new controller works, I still can't get the triggers to work. Specifically with street fighter 3rd strike. I can set strong punch and strong kick to left and right bumpers, but I can't set anything to the triggers, which would be more comfortable to me. Is this common?
Do u know how to make my Xbox controller look down for retroarch dolphin fatal frame 4 on the series s. I've been looking for days on forums for settings or a fix to help me play fatal frame 2 and 4 on Wii
My retroarch doesn’t show xinput under drivers for some reason. Any suggestions? Tia
What input driver options are available to you? Looking under settings -> Input Driver
I need help quite badly. I’ve spent 10 hours on this and I can’t seem to get my controller to work at all in the any game that I downloaded for Retroarch. It works perfectly in the menu but not in any game. If you could help me out that would be great.
I offer a paid consulting service to fix RetroArch issues and I've already worked on dozens of machines. Email me at jasen@integrumretro.com if you are interested.
How do I remap the service button in the name core because DDR requires it and I can't restart the game without it
The service button will be in the game mame settings under " Set controls for this game only" default is F2 for the service button if you can't activate it via dip switches
So confusing to me , When I first started messing around with this retro arch stuff I had no problems with my xbox series x controller then all of a sudden my B button turbos everything nothing works
Try deleting your game and core remaps to ensure you haven't overwritten the default layout.
Hello. I have retroarch on Xbox Series S. Iam not able to figure out how to set the controller for twin stick action MAME game Smash TV. The right analog iam not able to work..please help me. I made this system running specially for this game and iam in dead end. Please help.
You have to go into the emulator core settings and map the second analog stick. For me, I'm running the mame core, so I go into the mame menu in smashtv and map it from within mame since it doesn't have a default secondary controller config.
Thank you
Thanks this video really helped me out, Hare Krishna!
Hello Jason if at all possible please can you share your configuration file with me I have a 2 player megacade with ipac and Xbox controllers I would love my arcade sticks and my controllers to work on all my games I also love the comic books my wife is really into comics and that’s just amazing if at all possible please let me know thank you so much
@Fess Rose email me at jasen@integrumretro.com I have a Megacade as well, and it's a bit more complex than a single config file but I can jump on a call and explain why.
Very good video. Question: is there a way to make RA recognise my xbox controller's guide/home button? PC-W10x64
It may not recognize it for what it's for, but you can map it to most any of the virtual controller functions. For example, you could map it to the exit game hotkey.
Xbox controller doesn't show up in Device Index
Be sure you have configured your controller input to xinput.
Do you have a tool to remap Gun4IR controllers with stable ids? Can I pay you for it if it works for Supermodel?
Yes, my tool works on all the emulators on my drive and with all the major lightguns. I only make. It available on my drive.
jasen@integrumretro.com if you'd like more details.
3:42 I'm using xbox controller, Android is the only option available
What? That arcade binding is all kind of wrong, even in the arcade the punch buttons are the top row and kicks on the bottom row. So it would be LP, MP on X and Y and LK, MK, on A and B, HP on LB and HK on RB. Hahaha I'm not sure why you prefer punch on the bottom, lol, that's so weird to me.
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