2 controller devices for Raspberry Pi/Linux natively compiled games

[Vegz78]

Hi,

Now that native compilation of MakeCode Arcade games for Raspberry Pi/ARM Linux soon is working with either a single keyboard or a single gamepad controller, it would be nice in the near future to also have support for 2 different control devices(keyboard and gamepad, or 2 gamepads) to support two player games.

Today, it's only possible to setup 1 gamepad OR keyboard in the /sd/arcade.cfg configuration file.

I have submitted this issue after a brief dialogue with @mmoskal about the subject.

Thanks for a great product and I hope for a positive response!

Br,
Vegard

[Vegz78]

Hi @mmoskal,

I found a solution for using 2 gamepads simultaneously in natively executable MakeCode Arcade games by mapping them to the keyboard controls already supporting 2 players, using uinput-mapper.

I am hoping my work-around is enough to close this issue:
https://github.com/Vegz78/McAirpos

Br,
Vegard

[mmoskal]

Sounds great, at least as an interim solution. Thanks!

[Vegz78]

One short follow-up comment:
The underlying problem was not really the lack of support for 2 controllers/players, which is demonstrated with multiple projects with 2 players on 1 keyboard or multiple controllers/players on the same input device/GPIO(ref. Microsoft's own RPi Zero/Cardboard/Arcade projects).

But the issue is that there, to my knowledge, is only support for 1 SCANCODES=/dev/input/eventX device in /sd/arcade.cfg, and that the MCA games on the RPi, to my knowledge, only interprets EV_KEY values and not EV_ABS values.