A script to let the user choose the controllers to use for RetroArch players 1-4. It shows several user-friendly dialog boxes to perform this task. You can set the global and/or the system specific configuration.
The joystick selection has two methods of work:
- The traditional joystick selection by its index number;
- The new joystick selection by name method
The advantage of the selection by name method is that there is no need to care about the joystick connection order. You can configure your "Generic USB SNES gamepad" to be the player1 no matter what USB port you use. Or, better yet, configure your "Fancy Bluetooth joypad" to be the player1 no matter what was the order it was paired or how many USB joysticks are connected.
It was made for use with RetroPie only [https://retropie.org.uk/].
It's pretty simple to install. Perform these commands on your RetroPie bash prompt:
git clone https://github.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection
cd RetroPie-joystick-selection
bash install.sh
After that you are ready to use it via RetroPie menu in emulationstation.
Main menu:
Global configuration (with no configs):
Joystick selection screen:
Global configuration (by index method, all 4 joysticks are set):
Global configuration (by name method, all 4 joysticks are set):
Systems menu (I have just a few of them installed):
System specific (by index method, some joysticks are set):
System specific (by name method, some joysticks are set):
- If you are using joysticks with equal names, then, yes, the connection order matters.
- [This issue doesn't happen if you use the joystick selection by name method] If the joystick list order changes (adding/removing devices), your configuration changes too. So you have to run
joystick_selection.shagain. - [This is RetroArch issue. It not happens because of the joystick selection tool] Due to the dynamic nature of bluetooth connections, if you configure a bluetooth joystick as Player 1, and somehow lose the connection during a game, it'll be annoying to exit RetroArch (connect to RetroPie via ssh and kill RetroArch process. If your raspi isn't on the LAN, :( I think you'll have to unplug your power supply.).
2016-08-12: added 1) system specific configuration; 2) the "joystick selection by name" feature!
2016-06-26: now the install.sh creates a gamelist.xml entry for joystick_selection.sh.
2016-06-25: 1) Added an initial dialog menu. 2) Renamed the file input_selection.sh for joystick_selection.sh for a better description of what it does. 3) The files is no more at $HOME/bin, the jslist is at /opt/retropie/supplementary and joystick_selection.sh is directly at $HOME/RetroPie/retropiemenu/
2016-05-23: Show the current config and give the chance to keep it or not. Also show the configurations made at the end of the process and give the chance to accept it or not.
2016-05-22: Added joystick and RetroPie menu support.
2016-05-21: This is the very first version. Please give me feedback if problems occur.
This repository contains the following files:
- jslist.c
- joystick_selection.sh
- jsfuncs
- install.sh
It's a small program to list all the joysticks available on the system and their respective index. The output format is:
index:Joystick Name
Example:
Example:
[prompt]$ jslist
0:Twin USB Joystick
1:Twin USB Joystick
2:ipega Extending Game Controller
3:8Bitdo Zero Game Pad
jslist returns a non-zero value if no joystick found.
It's a bash script to let the user choose the controllers to use for RetroArch players 1-4, showing several user-friendly dialog boxes to perform this task. It relies on the output of the jslist.c to work properly.
These functions were originally part of joystick_selection.sh but some of them are useful for runcommand-on{start,end}.sh, then I decided to put them in a separate file. Most of the functions have comments about what it does.
There is a description at the comments in beggining of the file.