Add Support for BlissBox 4-Play #1525
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Hello, I'm the Bliss-Box 4-play developer and although I do not know much about RetroPie I figured this info will be of some help.
Also just a tip and to help Google out a bit it's not Blissbox or Bliss box, There are a lot of companies that use that name and although it may seem minute, it does help the search engines to find the correct project or company by spelling things correctly. Bliss-Box, is correct. Sadly some domains like freeforums do not allow dashes. |
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According to http://blissbox.freeforums.org/blissbox-4-play-on-raspberry-pi-how-to-t398.html the problem is linked to Emulation Station and SDL2 - if SDL2 doesn't recognise it a a joystick it needs to be fixed there (We have a slightly custom SDL2 library, but ideally fixes go upstream). Perhaps it can be tested with something like https://github.com/Grumbel/sdl-jstest - I believe the sdl2 sources have a joystick test also. |
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Some interesting results when googling the device ;-) |
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Just a note to say I have one of these, and tried for about an hour to get it to work in RetroPie (resulting post http://blissbox.freeforums.org/post2424.html?p2424) and failed - jstest saw it and detected movement, but Retroarch didnt play at all - even though they have a udev file here: I love the idea of the blissbox for a retro setup, and am happy to test various configs if that helps anyone (or even post my unit off to someone who is keen to try testing). |
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Perhaps we could get the developer to donate a few to the project in exchange for RetroPie integration. I think once support is added, he likely would see a spike in sales for his device. The community really would dig this little device I think. |
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@joolswills yeah, I laughed about the name too. Especially with a company called "Bliss Box". |
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The 4-play has always worked with the pi you just need to understand linux errors. The problem you are having is fixed with a simple power adapter. Unfortunately the shipping, cost, and need for this is an overkill. Though, an easy item to buy, See this post for details. |
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@ulao I'm getting "The requested topic does not exist." on that link - can you confirm the address? |
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Sorry, fixed. Also we made a change (not yet released) to the code allowing SDL detection. Mostly I here that is no longer an issue as native linux HID works. Though some emulators still use SDL and there was an issue with it. You can try this code out here http://blissbox.freeforums.org/post2829.html?hilit=sdl#p2829 SDL is working correctly in this version. Lastly we are also making a button layout system to emulate 360. So now the 4-play can go in to 360 mode and the button config will match up. No it will not show up as xinput just the same layout so you do not need to remap when switching from 4-play to 360. You can follow that here. |
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Looks like the link got messed up.http://blissbox.freeforums.org/blissbox-4-play-on-raspberry-pi-how-to-t406.html
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A new post has been made, this one allows the 4-play to work in sdl2 mode so that ES and RA both work correctly. http://blissbox.freeforums.org/post2919.html#p2919 |
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The BlissBox 4-Play is a wired controller adapter which supports pretty much every wired controller known to the emulation community. Currently I believe the device is supported on Windows and Linux based operating sytems, possibly Mac as well.
Here is a FAQ from their site about details:
http://skunx7.wix.com/bliss-box#!home/mainPage
I wrote a post on their forum and it appears that support did exist to some extent on RetroPie but it was never 100% supported.
http://blissbox.freeforums.org/blissbox-4-play-retropie-3-7-not-working-t410.html
This is not a very popular device currently but this is a company which has been trying to grow and spread the word about their device to the emulation community. As an owner of the device, I would say it works very well for Windows. It's not cheap at $120, but it provides a lot of flexibility.
This is the perfect device for the RetroPie Project.
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