Neo-Geo PS3 USB Controller only working in MAME

[pasdeloup]

Hello,

to create a nice retropie box, I try to use 2 old Neo-Geo PS3 USB Controller.

They are working fine in MAME, but EmulationStation doesn’t recognize them, so I have to keep a keyboard plugged at the same time.

It seems they are only working with linuxraw old driver :
retroarch-joyconfig –driver linuxraw
find : EXAR USB JOYSTICK PS3 on /dev/input/js0 (and js1)
but default driver can’t find them.

Any idea? Is it a configuration problem, or a missing driver?
They are supposed to be PS3 so they should work, but I know they have a strange behaviour: the stick is read as an analog stick, not as the main pad of usual PS3 controllers.

Thanks. I keep on searching and add info if I find.

[pasdeloup]

Hi I finally found the solution for my problem, so I explain it in case someone else needs it:

It’s a probleme with udev configuration, the new device manager used by SDL2.

To make my joystick work, I had to setup rights for my user + add the INPUT_ID_JOYSTICK tag on it to be recognized as the Joystick.

I created the following file:
/etc/udev/rules.d/99-joystick.rules

with this content:

# My Joystick
KERNEL==”event*”, ENV{ID_MODEL}==”USB_JOYSTICK_PS3″, MODE=”0644″, ENV{ID_INPUT_JOYSTICK}=”1″

More infos on:
https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/e3e00f8e6b91/README-linux.txt

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