How can I change the P2 controller to Player 1?

[juicebag85]

Hi.

I have two controllers. A wireless Xbox 360 Controller, which is connected via the official reveiver and a regular USB,2-axis 8-button gamepad (a USB-SNES Gamepad to be more specific).

I want my Xbox 360 controller always to be Player 1. The problem is that, as the Raspberry Pi detects the USB-SNES-Controller first, it makes the USB,2-axis 8-button gamepad as Player 1.
In Retroarch it’s easy to solve the problem. You can just switch those controller to make player 1 as player 2 and vice versa.
Even in the Emulationstation I get it to work, that my Xbox 360 Controller is the main controller.

But not in Mupen64Plus. I tried to change it in the mupen64plus.cfg and switched the both controllers and but it just don’t work. It always detects the USB,2-axis 8-button gamepad as player 1. And even my changes are overwritten, when I restart the Pi.

So I’m asking, is there a way to solve this in the mupen64plus config or do I have to change it system wide? The last solution would cleary be the better one, but how to do it? :(

Could someone please help me?
Thank you!

[Anonymous]

For those of us who are inexperienced, can you please explain how you fixed the issue in RetorArch? I have the same issue. I have a wireless bluetooth controller I would like to always be detected as player 1, regardless of whether or not other controllers are plugged in.

[juicebag85]

Hey.

You have to go to /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg and look for the following line and change it like this:

# If desired, it is possible to override which joypads are being used for user 1 through 8.
# First joypad available is 0.
input_player1_joypad_index = 1
input_player2_joypad_index = 0
# input_player3_joypad_index = 2
# input_player4_joypad_index = 3
# input_player5_joypad_index = 4
# input_player6_joypad_index = 5
# input_player7_joypad_index = 6
# input_player8_joypad_index = 7

I really wish someone could help me out with my problem. This really bothers me and it seems like no one else has this issue, which is hard to believe. :(

[juicebag85]

Ok seems I was just blind or stupid or whatever. ^^

I solved it by myself. I didn’t managed to find a way to change it for the whole system but at least I could change it for the Mupen64Plus.

All you have to do is to open the /opt/retropie/configs/n64/mupen64plus.cfg

There you have to search for “[Input-SDL-Control1]” and “[Input-SDL-Control2]”

First you have to switch the numbers of these both (make [Input-SDL-Control1] to [Input-SDL-Control2] and vice versa)

Inside of those you have to change the line:

# Controller configuration mode: 0=Fully Manual, 1=Auto with named SDL Device, 2=Fully automatic
mode = 2

You have to change the number from 2 to 1. Otherwise it wont save your changes.

This will just do the trick. You don’t have to change this line:

# Specifies which joystick is bound to this controller: -1=No joystick, 0 or more= SDL Joystick number
device = 1

It will work anyways. ;)

One last thing: If you want to exit the emulator, remember that your prefered Controller is J1 and not J0. So you have to enter something like this:

# Joystick event string for stopping the emulator
Joy Mapping Stop = "J1B10"

I hope I can help someone else with this. :)

Regards

[ezeitgeist]

I have the same problem with 2 USB joystick and button configs I made. Would love the universal fix as well.

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