[Feature Request] Add Support for Monster Joysticks Arcade Controller GPIO Interface (SNESDev)

[vikingmedia]

Motivation

Currently, only GPIO joyticks based on mk_arcade_joystick_rpi (https://github.com/recalbox/mk_arcade_joystick_rpi) are supported, at least that is what I think.

There are other GPIO joysticks interfaces that could be supported too with little effort, e.g. for the Monster Joystick products. They come with an adapter board (https://github.com/MonsterJoysticks/USB-GPIO-Adapter/tree/master) that connects to GPIO but also provided USB connectivity.

I added the user space SNESDev service, by following the instructions on that page: https://github.com/MonsterJoysticks/SNESDev-RPi-Wiring-Pi/tree/master

For this to work with Monster Joysticks, the default config file needed to be adapted, as described on this page: https://monsterjoysticks.com/support/configure-amibian

Summary

To get support for SNESdev devices like Monster Joysticks, just clone SNESDev driver on the ReplayOS system, compile it and install the background service

cd /tmp
git clone git://github.com/petrockblog/SNESDev-RPi.git
cd SNESDev-RPi

make
make install
make installservice

and then change the configuration file: nano /etc/snesdev.cfg

bash
adapter_version="1x"
button_enabled=0
gamepad1_enabled=1
gamepad1_type="snes"
gamepad2_enabled=0

reboot ReplayOs and - voila!

Final Thoughts

would be cool to just add the option to the Rpi5 Plugin similar to Arcarde Stick support.

[kirikipi]

Pero ya que tienes botones y palanca arcade, por que no lo conectas directamente a los puertos GPIO de la Raspberry pi.

Es lo mejor.

[vikingmedia]

Pero ya que tienes botones y palanca arcade, por que no lo conectas directamente a los puertos GPIO de la Raspberry pi.

Es lo mejor.

Hi @kirikipi , yes, that is certainly an Option. The board connects the arcade controls directly to gpio, but with a different pin configuration. The advantage of the board is, that you can connect the arcade controls also via USB to a different system like a regular USB Joystick without even powering the rpi. I think that is kinda neat. So it is just about supporting another driver to support gpio arcade controls.

[kirikipi]

Hazme caso, olvídate. Sí quieres usar ese Joystick lo mejor es usarlo por GPIO. Créeme es la mejor opción 🥇 .

Conectalo como lo pone en la siguiente foto:

https://github.com/rtomasa/gpio-joystick-rpi/blob/main/schema.png

[vikingmedia]

Cheers, @kirikipi , thanks for the advice. I'll definitely consider it. Maybe that'll be the next upgrade :-)

[kirikipi]

Hazme caso, estas perdiendo el tiempo. Hazlo ahora y los juegos irán muchísimo mejor a la hora de controlarlos 👍 .

The Future is Now by GPIO.