hmm even with custom cfg file setting value to 5 no change....
the analog is digital i just dont get it. ive tweaked everything i can think of and more, dead zones etc.. i just dont get it. arch rivals, sinister, after burner, none of these games will play as analog...
@substring ive tried many many things and still cannot get it to work. i am 100% sure that the joystick is outputting analog to mame (as verified by jstest while game is running) ...
i notice that recalbox keeps writing retroarch config with input_libretro_device_p1 = 1 not 5... will that cause it to not work?
Hmm It seems I can set up joystick as analog "Joystick 1" if I cheat the Controller Config Wizard using a second controller or keyboard input to skip the D-Pad section...... but then with no D-Pad, the front end menus don't work anymore......
@substring how? you can't skip d-pad in the controller config wizard... edit config file directly?
as it says in the config wizard "If you have only one joystick, configure the directions keys and skip joystick config" -- sure but does this mean that I also forego analog support?
I have only one joystick...and it's analog...does configuring it as D-Pad make me lose analog support? The joystick is outputting analog... but what in the whole recalbox/emlulationstation/retroarch/libmame chain is preventing those analog signals from being interpreted as analog and ending up as digital?
I'm running the following setup:
Ultimarc UltraStik 360 joystick, 6 buttons in SF2 style config wired to it + Start/Select
I cannot get the analog to work. I know that the joystick is in Analog mode because I spent extensive time ensuring that RGBcommander is running (even working with the developer to support Recalbox specifically) and I know it's switching joystick profiles, and the /dev/js* files are outputting full analog resolution.
The joysticks work but they act like 8-way/D-Pad....digital, not analog. Games like Afterburner don't have any resolution to the input, as soon as you hit any directional input it's at max.
I've tried a lot to get it to working....and I'm just at a total loss. I'm using MAME 2003 aka 078 and I've tried other cores (MAME 2010, IMAME4ALL) ..
I am just using a single analog USB joystick, not a gamepad, so I'm not sure if the analog works when you have both the D-Pad and Analog joystick inputs configured in the controller config.. but you can only setup the D-Pad controls in the controller config when you are using a single directional input.
Thoughts?
i take that back.....the P2 input problem seems to be limited to the Xenophobe ROM...all input seems to work fine for other games (like Altered Beast)
@alexander-tolstykh did you go to a specific ROM on the gamelist screen and hit COIN (aka SELECT) button, and then edit "metadata" and change the core settings to LIBRETRO/MAME2010?
its working fine for me this way...now i can play TAPPER 
however, my P2 joystick input is ignored....not sure the solution yet...
@vintageplay2016 just copy mame2010_libretro.so into /usr/lib/libretro/
and then you can either change the mame version in the recalbox.conf to mame2010 instead of mame078, or you can go into specific games and hit the SELECT button then EDIT THIS GAME...> and change the core there.