@recalboxfan1 Thank you. I'll give that a try now as I finally have a few minutes to mess around with it. It's been so long since I started recalbox from scratch that I completely forgot about winSCP. I'm familiar with it but I recently got a new PC and that's one of the memory lost apps I neglected to install on the new one. Thanks for the reminder. I'll let you all know if I have any luck.
@zing Thank you friend, I really do appreciate this help. I looked at the links and will try some of the changes as time permits but I do have a question first. Keep in mind I'm not fluent by any stretch with Linux. I have enough knowledge to keep me afloat and barely competent, but I do my best. The Xarcade is connected via USB. So my question is, if I make changes to the GPIO settings (where the system is apparently detecting connection of controllers) but I don't have anything actually connected to any of the GPIO pins can I expect any results? Is this a system error? I will likely have a bit of time on Thursday to start messing with this I'm just asking your opinion ahead of time. Seriously though, thanks. You're my light in the darkness of not knowing what the hell I'm doing.
I did notice while starting this that the xarcade is being recognized as 2 GPIO controllers but here are the results.
# sdl2-jstest --list
error: failed to read gamecontrollerdb.txt: Invalid RWops
Found 2 joystick(s)
Joystick Name: 'GPIO Controller 1'
Joystick Path: '/dev/input/event8'
Joystick GUID: 15000000010000000100000000010000
Joystick Number: 0
Number of Axes: 2
Number of Buttons: 9
Number of Hats: 0
Number of B***s: 0
GameControllerConfig:
missing (see 'gamecontrollerdb.txt' or SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG)
Axis code 0: 0
Axis code 1: 1
Button code 0: 304
Button code 1: 305
Button code 2: 307
Button code 3: 308
Button code 4: 310
Button code 5: 311
Button code 6: 314
Button code 7: 315
Button code 8: 316
Joystick Name: 'GPIO Controller 2'
Joystick Path: '/dev/input/event9'
Joystick GUID: 15000000010000000200000000010000
Joystick Number: 1
Number of Axes: 2
Number of Buttons: 9
Number of Hats: 0
Number of B***s: 0
GameControllerConfig:
missing (see 'gamecontrollerdb.txt' or SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG)
Axis code 0: 0
Axis code 1: 1
Button code 0: 304
Button code 1: 305
Button code 2: 307
Button code 3: 308
Button code 4: 310
Button code 5: 311
Button code 6: 314
Button code 7: 315
Button code 8: 316
# sdl2-jstest -e 0
error: failed to read gamecontrollerdb.txt: Invalid RWops
Joystick Name: 'GPIO Controller 1'
Joystick Path: '/dev/input/event8'
Joystick GUID: 15000000010000000100000000010000
Joystick Number: 0
Number of Axes: 2
Number of Buttons: 9
Number of Hats: 0
Number of B***s: 0
GameControllerConfig:
missing (see 'gamecontrollerdb.txt' or SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG)
Axis code 0: 0
Axis code 1: 1
Button code 0: 304
Button code 1: 305
Button code 2: 307
Button code 3: 308
Button code 4: 310
Button code 5: 311
Button code 6: 314
Button code 7: 315
Button code 8: 316
Entering joystick test loop, press Ctrl-c to exit
SDL_JOYDEVICEADDED which:0
SDL_JOYDEVICEADDED which:1
@zing Thank you. I unfortunately cannot still get to work. I did attempt to follow the instructions, as best I could, in that thread but I get nothing but errors in ssh. There appears to be a file I need, and I downloaded it, but I'm not sure where it goes or how I would even get it there via ssh from a windows PC. I did go through the web interface to recalbox and found that in controllers only PS3 was turned on. I clicked on the rest of them and found, after a reboot, that 2 controllers were detected on the pi. That is a step I guess as none were detected before. However, I still cannot set up the controllers as no inputs are recognized during setup. If there is any more advice you could give me to get this working it would be greatly appreciated. It obviously doesn't make any sense to proceed through setup if I can't get the controllers working. Thanks again though, I can use all the help I can get.
I just flashed the image for the new Recalbox version and my X Arcade Dual stick is not recognized. To be fair I haven't updated in a while but I finally felt like doing it. The X Arcade is built into the the custom cabinet I made for it so I don't have many options for controllers. I have never had this issue with any other version, the controller was just recognized and set up easily. Has anyone else had this problem? I didn't change anything other than the image on the SD card. Thankfully I have a save of my old image I can flash back to but I'd obviously prefer the newer setup if possible. Raspberry Pi 3.
Ok, sorry for my frustration. I figured it out. I needed to change the mame advanced emulator configuration from Auto to Mame 78 and now it all works again.
I just spent quite a long time setting this up. I went through my entire Mame folder, selected favorites and tested each rom to ensure it worked and was the version I wanted. Then I updated. Now every Mame room that was working just fine a couple days ago goes to load screen then right back to the games list. Between scraping and setup this is suddenly several weeks of wasted work. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this or what's wrong? I'm desperate here.
Thanks @voljega but I think I found a work around, not exactly a fix. I flashed the card back to my 4.01 image and scraped from there for a time. After rebooting I upgraded and now the scraper seems to work just fine. I can't say why that had an effect but it did so I'm good now. Thank you very much for the help.
Hey @voljega, I'm still having no luck. Any idea why they decided to use the file names for Mame instead of true names? Where can I find the umxl scraper thread? I've looked for it but can't find it. I'd love to try the other features of 4.1 but it's basically useless to me if I don't figure this out. I can't have a stand up arcade cabinet if the people playing it can't find the games they want.