N64 How to get the joystick and the buttons to work

Picade
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Hello

I built my picade some days ago, and I loved it. It’s amazing. :)
Now I tried some N64 games with Retropie 4.02 and they work just fine. But only with my Xbox One Controller attached to the usb port.
Whatever I tried, I didn’t get the Picade Joystick and Butons to work.
Did anyone here yet solve this problem, or has some ideas? :)

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Hi

My joystick and buttons work in the N64 emulator unfortunately I can’t remember if I needed to configure anything and I am not near the Picade until Friday so can’t check. This is on v3.8.1 so might not be relevant to v4.0.2

Cheers

Paul

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Hi Paul

I’d be happy if you can check. :) Would be great to play Mario Kart 64 with the Picade joystick. :)

Thank you.

Martin

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ok, I got it. Wooohooo!
I just needed to install an emulator which uses retroarch. And with this it worked.
Now I only need to find out how I can use the joystick as analogue stick and not as dpad. :)

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Hi

Excellent enjoy Mario Kart.

Cheers

Paul

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The second problem I solved too, and already played. :) Loved it! :)
Thank you Paul.

cheers

Martin

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Can you tell us how you solved it?

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Hello!

Of course.
To Play the N64-Games with the Picade Stick and buttons I installed Ir_Mupen64plus in the Retropie-Setup and set this as default emulator for the N64 roms.
To use the stick as analogue I edited this config file: /opt/retropie/configs/n64/retroarch.cfg
I copied the input section for player 1 from /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg into the n64-file. Then I switched the entries from the dpad to the analogue and left the dpad entries just with a “”. You just need to be carful to fill in the axis-entries correctly. But there’s a note which explains how to do it. If you want, I can post you my config file later, when I get home.

cheers

Martin

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Any chance you could do a tutorial on how you did it as i am a newbee and would really could do with you help

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Or even the config file would help

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I tried your suggestion and I didn’t get it to work. Can you post your n64 retroarch.cfg

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any Solution here for RetroPie 4.1 with Picade Joystick and N64 Emulator?

GreetZ
Joey

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Hi, can anyone post an N64 config file for RetroPie 4.1?

Thanks from Germany
Joey

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has no one a config File for N64 Picade Joystick?

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Hi

Try here as this is where the Retropie developers are

Cheers

Paul

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Sadly I ve the same issue with raspberry pi4 and retropie 4.6

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Hi,

I had the same problem on the newest 10" Picade and RetroPie 4.7.2
This solution works for me e.g. for Mario Kart in lr-mupen64plus and lr-mupen64plus-next

Connect to the “configs” Samba share and copy the complete content in the file retroarch.cfg in the n64 folder.

# Settings made here will only override settings in the global retroarch.cfg if placed above the #include line

input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/n64/"

# Two analog sticks (DualShock-esque).
# Bound as usual, however, if a real analog axis is bound,
# it can be read as a true analog.
# Positive X axis is right, Positive Y axis is down.
input_player1_l_x_plus = "right"
input_player1_l_x_minus = "left"
input_player1_l_y_plus = "down"
input_player1_l_y_minus = "up"

#include "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg"

Hopefully this helps others facing the same problem.

Cheers
Marcus

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Thanks dude, i do confirm, this configuration is fixing the issue!
Cheers!

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Everything is inverted…
I understand how to access the mainframe etc, but I don’t know how to change the settings for individual emulators…
I’m a pro at inverted mario kart now (N64) 🤦‍♂️
The configuration is set up right, but I’m struggling to tweak my home build properly 😔
Any advice welcomed 🙏

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thanks man. I got it to work with your help.