X-Arcade Dual Stick Button 8 for both Player 1 & 2 only sends any input on release

[kimmykaroo]

@substring Is there any sort of workaround I can do in the mean time?

[Substring]

@kimmykaroo i have to check the patch i wrote for xarcade2jstick, i believe i must have missed a specific key. Meanwhile, the only thing you can do is wish me luck hahaha

Once i believe it's solved, i'll give you a link to test the new binary + howto install it.

One question : did you have to edit the custom.sh to launch the xarcade2jstick ? Because my tankstick takes soooo much time to initialize that the driver doesn't work on normal boot, i have to launch again xarcade2jstick later

[kimmykaroo]

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[kimmykaroo]

@substring No, I didn't have to touch custom.sh, but I do have to make sure the arcade stick is plugged in prior to booting.

[Substring]

@kimmykaroo ok, looks like it's "normal" that it just returns an even on release, the keypress is just ignored to handle some combo keys. AFAIR, I never succeeded to make these combos work ...

[kimmykaroo]

@Substring combo keys? I don't understand. How can I disable this 'normal' behavior?

[Substring]

@kimmykaroo you can't disable that, unless you know C and recompile by yourself the driver

[kimmykaroo]

That's... inconvenient. I'm screwed then?

[Substring]

@kimmykaroo unless i remove combos, but i won't do that beforesome time i think

[kimmykaroo]

@Substring I don't even know what 'combos' are... button macros or something?

[Substring]

@kimmykaroo combo = combination, several buttons at once

[kimmykaroo]

@Substring Are there any other buttons that behave this way, or is it just button 8?

I don't use the standard configuration as is... I really don't see the logic in handling the buttons this way.

[Substring]

@kimmykaroo Looks like the combo is when you combine this key + the player start. You're right, that's just total bulls**t ...

I'll try to find some time to do thatsooner than expected to add it to 4.1. Meanwhile, when it's ready, i'll give you a link + howto to install the new binary. Which raspberry pi ?

[kimmykaroo]

@Substring I use raspberry pi 3

[Substring]

@kimmykaroo ok. Keep checking the forum, I'll try to do that in the next 10 days.

[Substring]

@kimmykaroo patch done, building it. I may not be able to test it before I send it to you. Keep in touch

[kimmykaroo]

@Substring Alright, thank you.

[kimmykaroo]

@Substring How is it coming along?

[Substring]

@kimmykaroo For now my PC is setup to build for Odroid C2, i can't build yet for Pi3. My work over the C2 should be over in the weekend, meanwhile i'll probably have our build build a recalbox version with the modified xarcade. You need to be patient, I won't have much time for Recalbox bedore Sunday

[Substring]

@kimmykaroo So :http://www42.zippyshare.com/v/GbiBxNhB/file.html looks like it worked fine for me, evtest working as expected :

# evtest
No device specified, trying to scan all of /dev/input/event*
Available devices:
/dev/input/event0:	Logitech USB Receiver
/dev/input/event1:	Logitech USB Receiver
/dev/input/event2:	XGaming X-Arcade
/dev/input/event3:	XGaming X-Arcade
/dev/input/event4:	Xarcade-to-Gamepad Device 1
/dev/input/event5:	Xarcade-to-Gamepad Device 2
/dev/input/event6:	SNES-to-Keyboard Device
Select the device event number [0-6]: 4
Input driver version is 1.0.1
Input device ID: bus 0x3 vendor 0x1 product 0x1 version 0x4
Input device name: "Xarcade-to-Gamepad Device 1"
Supported events:
  Event type 0 (EV_SYN)
  Event type 1 (EV_KEY)
    Event code 276 (BTN_EXTRA)
    Event code 304 (BTN_SOUTH)
    Event code 305 (BTN_EAST)
    Event code 307 (BTN_NORTH)
    Event code 308 (BTN_WEST)
    Event code 310 (BTN_TL)
    Event code 311 (BTN_TR)
    Event code 314 (BTN_SELECT)
    Event code 315 (BTN_START)
    Event code 316 (BTN_MODE)
  Event type 2 (EV_REL)
  Event type 3 (EV_ABS)
    Event code 0 (ABS_X)
      Value      2
      Min        0
      Max        4
    Event code 1 (ABS_Y)
      Value      2
      Min        0
      Max        4
Properties:
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
Event: time 1499585090.886264, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 314 (BTN_SELECT), value 1
Event: time 1499585090.886264, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585091.262290, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 314 (BTN_SELECT), value 0
Event: time 1499585091.262290, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585091.694345, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 314 (BTN_SELECT), value 1
Event: time 1499585091.694345, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585091.926374, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 314 (BTN_SELECT), value 0
Event: time 1499585091.926374, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585092.302426, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 276 (BTN_EXTRA), value 1
Event: time 1499585092.302426, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585092.614465, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 276 (BTN_EXTRA), value 0
Event: time 1499585092.614465, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585092.822493, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 276 (BTN_EXTRA), value 1
Event: time 1499585092.822493, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585092.990517, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 276 (BTN_EXTRA), value 0
Event: time 1499585092.990517, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585093.566594, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 304 (BTN_SOUTH), value 1
Event: time 1499585093.566594, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585093.750617, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 304 (BTN_SOUTH), value 0
Event: time 1499585093.750617, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585094.142676, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 305 (BTN_EAST), value 1
Event: time 1499585094.142676, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585094.286691, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 305 (BTN_EAST), value 0
Event: time 1499585094.286691, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585094.702746, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 311 (BTN_TR), value 1
Event: time 1499585094.702746, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585094.878767, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 311 (BTN_TR), value 0
Event: time 1499585094.878767, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585096.006924, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 308 (BTN_WEST), value 1
Event: time 1499585096.006924, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585096.134938, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 308 (BTN_WEST), value 0
Event: time 1499585096.134938, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585096.406971, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 307 (BTN_NORTH), value 1
Event: time 1499585096.406971, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585096.470979, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 307 (BTN_NORTH), value 0
Event: time 1499585096.470979, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585096.887066, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 310 (BTN_TL), value 1
Event: time 1499585096.887066, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585096.935042, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 310 (BTN_TL), value 0
Event: time 1499585096.935042, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585099.391380, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 315 (BTN_START), value 1
Event: time 1499585099.391380, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585099.799422, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 315 (BTN_START), value 0
Event: time 1499585099.799422, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585102.799845, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 316 (BTN_MODE), value 1
Event: time 1499585102.799845, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585103.367901, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 316 (BTN_MODE), value 0
Event: time 1499585103.367901, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585103.655939, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 316 (BTN_MODE), value 1
Event: time 1499585103.655939, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1499585105.056126, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 316 (BTN_MODE), value 0
Event: time 1499585105.056126, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------

So, download the file, use SSH to mount -o remount, rw /, copy the file to /usr/bin (use WinSCP if you're not familiar with linux command line), make sure atrtibutes have "executable" for the owner (with putty : chmod u+x /usr/bin/xarcade2jstick), reboot and voilà