Hello,

I'd like to welcome myself to the forums - I've read these for a while and have found them indispensible.

I have a converted snes pad using the chip from Sealie Computing / Retrozone. The gamepad driver is loaded and works fine right out of the box.

# dmesg | grep usb
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: USB HID v1.00 Gamepad [SealieComputing SuperRetroPad] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2

Also, the pad has tested fine using hugo to play old PC Engine games. fceu has given me some trouble though. When I run:

$ fceu -fs 1 -inputcfg gamepad somerom.nes

the input configuration seems to choke a bit on the detection of up, down, left and right. When I configure the input to accept keys from the keyboard, I am asked to press each one twice. When I use the gamepad for the configuration, fceu waits for the 'up' entry 3 times in a row and the 'down' entry 4 times, suggesting a problem. The other 2 directions are only asked for twice, but the command output doubles up, suggesting that fceu is getting 2 different signals from the gamepad at each d-pad press. Here is the command line output while configuring:

Starting FCE Ultra 0.98.12...
GamePad #4: A (1)
GamePad #4: A (2)
GamePad #4: B (1)
GamePad #4: B (2)
GamePad #4: SELECT (1)
GamePad #4: SELECT (2)
GamePad #4: START (1)
GamePad #4: START (2)
GamePad #4: UP (1) [[so i press up]]
GamePad #4: UP (2) [[i press up again]]
GamePad #4: UP (3) [[skipped]]
GamePad #4: UP (4) [[i press up for the third time]]
GamePad #4: DOWN (1) [[i press down]]
GamePad #4: DOWN (2) [[i press down again]]
GamePad #4: DOWN (3) [[i press down yet again]]
GamePad #4: DOWN (4) [[i press down again]]
GamePad #4: LEFT (1) [[skipped]]
GamePad #4: LEFT (2) [[i press left]]
GamePad #4: LEFT (3) [[i press left]]
GamePad #4: LEFT (4) [[skipped]]
GamePad #4: RIGHT (1) [[ipress right]]
GamePad #4: RIGHT (2) [[skipped]]
GamePad #4: RIGHT (3) [[i press right]]
GamePad #4: RIGHT (4) [[skipped]]
GamePad #4: Rapid A (1)
GamePad #4: Rapid A (2)
GamePad #4: Rapid B (1)
GamePad #4: Rapid B (2)

So I'm guessing there is a problem with fceu and my joystick driver. When I try to play a game, the left and right are fine but up and down are translated into left and right instead. Maybe the d-pad buttons are not considered normal buttons (some kind of axes thing)? fceu doesn't seem to have a forum - and I've googled a bit with no luck. If this is a unique problem to me, can someone help with diagnosis?

hugo gave this when it loads:

$ hugo
* Initing sound...Found 1 joypad
* PCE joypad 1: SealieComputing SuperRetroPad, 2 axes, 16 buttons

I am running debian sarge with 2.6.10 kernel. fceu was installed via apt-get, not from source. no configuration was done on the joystick.

Thanks for the help

I just tried installing from 0.98.12-1 binaries instead of the .deb, but still no luck.

had the same problem but with a gravis gamepad

you have to type it like this

fceu -inputcfg gamepad1 somefile.nes


it was really pissing me off too

i did it with the following command call:

fceu -input1 gamepad -inputcfg gamepad1 snes_rom.nes