Todd Flinders wrote:
I haven't specified a joytype. I just don't know the syntax to tell xmame that I have two usb gamepads. Either one works fine by themselves, but I don't know how to tell xmame to use them both so I can play 2 player games with them.The reason you use /dev/js and not /dev/js0 is because xmame will then look for /dev/js* and use any devices it finds as gamepads. Under normal circumstances, if you have js0 and js1 it will detect and use them both.
For example, to launch xmame with one gamepad, I type:
xmame -jdev /dev/js2 ./somerom
To launch xmame with two usb gamepads, I want to do something like the following, but I don't know the syntax:
xmame -jdev /dev/js -jdev /dev/js2 ./somerom
Can xmame support two usb gamepads, one for each player? Thanks for the help. I'm searching google, but not having any luck.
If you're using xmame.SDL, I think it defaults to the SDL joystick driver (-joytype 5) which has been not perfect for quite some time I think. -joytype 1 is the only option that seems to work for multiple gamepads, for me anyhow... hopefully you've got this compiled in! (JOY_STANDARD = 1)
Also it never helps to do ls /dev/js* to make sure both devices actually exist, although you've probably checked for that by now...
And like I said, if nothing else works and you want dual gamepad support right now, google for QJoyPad which lets you map joysticks to keyboard presses in X.
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