mayflash wii sensor bar messing with my config

hey yall, have another question for you good people.

I recently added a Mayflash Wii sensor bar to my arcade machine and it is working great with dolphin. Its cool.

Unfortunately i noticed that start and select weren't working in Retroarch games, then i noticed that the actual stick and buttons were not working. I went to the input section where you do the retrobinds and the Mayflash sensor was defined as the controller #1.

Now mind you, Retrobat doesn't even see the wii motes as a controller, meaning you cannot select those as default for player 1, 2,3 , etc.. in Retrobat. The Mayflash controller does show up in the Windows setup USB gamepad area, but not in Retrobat. Thats a good thing.

However when i launch Retroarch via Retrobat the default controller is the Maylash.

I have autoconfigure pads off in retrobat and I force xinput as my controller driver in Game Settings.

If i turn off the bar its no problem retroarch sees the controller correctly but when the bar is on it doesn't.

Any ideas on what I should try to get retroarch to not see the wiimotes? Would it be helpful if I post the log info?

Hello,
If you have autoconfig off i guess retroarch is giving priority to the wiimotes, no clue.

here is the launch statement everything looks good to me.

Code:

2024-08-02 13:04:40.482 [INFO]      [Generator] Cleanup.
2024-08-02 13:05:16.516 [INFO]      --------------------------------------------------------------
2024-08-02 13:05:16.521 [INFO]      [Startup] "C:\RetroBat6.3\emulationstation\emulatorLauncher.exe"  -gameinfo "C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\emulationstation.tmp\game.xml" -p1index 1 -p1guid 030000005e0400008e02000000007200 -p1path "USB\VID_045E&PID_028E&IG_00\6&3C59988&0&00" -p1name "Xbox 360 Controller" -p1nbbuttons 11 -p1nbhats 1 -p1nbaxes 6 -p2index 0 -p2guid 030000005e0400008e02000000007200 -p2path "USB\VID_045E&PID_028E&IG_01\6&3C59988&0&01" -p2name "Xbox 360 Controller" -p2nbbuttons 11 -p2nbhats 1 -p2nbaxes 6  -system naomi -emulator libretro -core flycast -rom "C:\RetroBat6.3\roms\naomi\cspike.zip"

Try with autoconfigure ON, why do you set it to OFF ?

Hey tart

I did launch twice the fist one is with autoconfigure controllers off and the second is with autoconfiguration on. Both run statements look identical to me at quick glance,.

Code:

2024-08-02 14:39:53.720 [INFO]      --------------------------------------------------------------
2024-08-02 14:39:53.725 [INFO]      [Startup] "C:\RetroBat6.3\emulationstation\emulatorLauncher.exe"  -gameinfo "C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\emulationstation.tmp\game.xml" -p1index 1 -p1guid 030000005e0400008e02000000007200 -p1path "USB\VID_045E&PID_028E&IG_00\6&3C59988&0&00" -p1name "Xbox 360 Controller" -p1nbbuttons 11 -p1nbhats 1 -p1nbaxes 6 -p2index 0 -p2guid 030000005e0400008e02000000007200 -p2path "USB\VID_045E&PID_028E&IG_01\6&3C59988&0&01" -p2name "Xbox 360 Controller" -p2nbbuttons 11 -p2nbhats 1 -p2nbaxes 6  -system gba -emulator libretro -core mgba -rom "C:\RetroBat6.3\roms\gba\007 - Everything or Nothing (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De).zip"
2024-08-02 14:39:53.730 [INFO]      [Startup] Loading configuration.
2024-08-02 14:39:53.730 [INFO]      [Startup] Loading ES settings.
2024-08-02 14:39:53.780 [INFO]      [Game] 007 : Everything or Nothing
2024-08-02 14:39:53.780 [INFO]      [Startup] Loading Controller configuration.
2024-08-02 14:39:53.905 [INFO]      [Generator] Using LibRetroGenerator
2024-08-02 14:39:53.960 [INFO]      [Generator] Loading features.
2024-08-02 14:39:54.045 [INFO]      [XInput] GetDevicesInternal OK
2024-08-02 14:39:54.185 [INFO]      [Running] C:\RetroBat6.3\emulators\retroarch\retroarch.exe -L "C:\RetroBat6.3\emulators\retroarch\cores\mgba_libretro.dll" "C:\RetroBat6.3\roms\gba\007 - Everything or Nothing (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De).zip" --set-shader "C:\RetroBat6.3\emulators\retroarch\shaders\shaders_slang\bezel\koko-aio\Presets_Handhelds-ng\GameboyAdvance-Overlay-Night.slangp"
2024-08-02 14:40:10.216 [INFO]      [Generator] Cleanup.
2024-08-02 14:40:29.011 [INFO]      --------------------------------------------------------------
2024-08-02 14:40:29.016 [INFO]      [Startup] "C:\RetroBat6.3\emulationstation\emulatorLauncher.exe"  -gameinfo "C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\emulationstation.tmp\game.xml" -p1index 1 -p1guid 030000005e0400008e02000000007200 -p1path "USB\VID_045E&PID_028E&IG_00\6&3C59988&0&00" -p1name "Xbox 360 Controller" -p1nbbuttons 11 -p1nbhats 1 -p1nbaxes 6 -p2index 0 -p2guid 030000005e0400008e02000000007200 -p2path "USB\VID_045E&PID_028E&IG_01\6&3C59988&0&01" -p2name "Xbox 360 Controller" -p2nbbuttons 11 -p2nbhats 1 -p2nbaxes 6  -system gba -emulator libretro -core mgba -rom "C:\RetroBat6.3\roms\gba\007 - Everything or Nothing (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De).zip"
2024-08-02 14:40:29.016 [INFO]      [Startup] Loading configuration.
2024-08-02 14:40:29.021 [INFO]      [Startup] Loading ES settings.
2024-08-02 14:40:29.061 [INFO]      [Game] 007 : Everything or Nothing
2024-08-02 14:40:29.061 [INFO]      [Startup] Loading Controller configuration.
2024-08-02 14:40:29.186 [INFO]      [Generator] Using LibRetroGenerator
2024-08-02 14:40:29.251 [INFO]      [Generator] Loading features.
2024-08-02 14:40:29.331 [INFO]      [XInput] GetDevicesInternal OK
2024-08-02 14:40:29.467 [INFO]      [Running] C:\RetroBat6.3\emulators\retroarch\retroarch.exe -L "C:\RetroBat6.3\emulators\retroarch\cores\mgba_libretro.dll" "C:\RetroBat6.3\roms\gba\007 - Everything or Nothing (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De).zip" --set-shader "C:\RetroBat6.3\emulators\retroarch\shaders\shaders_slang\bezel\koko-aio\Presets_Handhelds-ng\GameboyAdvance-Overlay-Night.slangp"
2024-08-02 14:40:44.891 [INFO]      [Generator] Cleanup.

And your xbox controller is not configured ?

yes,. somehow retroarch is setting the mayflash as player 1.,

Anyway, im just going to keep the sensor bar unplugged until i need it. The controller settings are confusing and finicky as hell.

I have mayflash and an xbox controller, never had any issue, mayflash is recognized as mouse in retroarch, not as controller.
And Retrobat does set xbox controller to device 1, so no problems.

just one of those weird things i guess. ill probably play with it some more, but any changes i make are likely to break other systems so for now i can click it off. thanks for your insight.,

@tartifless one last question, when you go into windows 'Setup USB game controllers' do the Mayflash controllers show up there?

Hello,

Mode 4 : yes it appears in controler settingd
When in mode 4 and 1 XBOXcontroller connected:


Mode 2 : no they do not appear in windows settings

very interesting, i found that if i use SDL mode rather than X-input the wii motes are not detected and I don't have the issue above. So i guess the solution is SDL. i just have to check the non Retroarch systems to make sure they all work.