Controller Switches in Linux

[patrickp]

In Linux, I'm running the emulator by starting it with text files; the -f (fullscreen) switch doesn't work; setting memory cards and selecting images does work. The reason I'm doing it like this rather than just with a launcher is so I can cd into the pSX folder before running the emulator; if I don't do that, psx.ini gets written to my home folder and all the default folder settings are messed up.

However, the -p0 and -p2 switches for setting the controller to Normal or Dualshock (i.e. digital or analog) seem to work for some games but not for others. Legend of Legaia, Final Fantasy VIII and Grandia (PAL versions) all work with the -p2 switch. Final Fantasy VII (PAL) and Wild Arms 2 (NTSC-US) work with the -p0 switch. But Chrono Cross (NTSC-US) doesn't work with the -p2 switch: the controller is set to Dualshock, but doesn't work; and Wild Arms (PAL) doesn't work with the -p0 switch: again, the controller is set to Normal, but doesn't work.

Lastly, I made a couple of files just to start the emulator with the controller set to digital or analog, but this doesn't work at all. For all the other text files, where the controller switch is followed by memory card and image paths, the controller is set to the appropriate setting, whether or not it works, and the terminal that is opened up (starting the emulator with a text file makes it behave exactly as it does in windows: a terminal window is opened before the emulator, and closes when I close the emulator) shows p=0 or p=2. Where it's just './pSX -p0' or './pSX -p2' no p=0 or p=2 appears in the terminal window, and the controller isn't set to the appropriate setting if it wasn't already set to it.

I would suspect this behaviour is simply because these switches are meant for the Windows version and pSX Author hasn't yet done anything with them for Linux, so whether they work and how depends on how similar the relevant function is in Linux and Windows.

[Ultima]

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./pSX -?

Edit: Clarification -- there is no fullscreen switch in Linux... Though yes, it's not the point of this thread :\

[Gamesoul Master]

The information seems so *not* connected that it doesn't even make complete sense. How can the game being played determine whether the emulator decides to read the controller or not? Overall, I only see one possible reason for why a switch would sometimes work but not always... and that would be how the code retrieves the switches from the commandline (or whatever Linux calls it... still the same thing essentially), with the possibility of how your images are named being the source of the problem. It might also be some other problem, but it'd still have to relate to the commandline because of your last problem of not being able to start the emulator with just a pad setting. But them being "meant for the Windows version" wouldn't make much sense either, cuz that would in no way explain why the switches *sometimes* work depending on the game. Unless it's two completely separate problems you're dealing with here (instead of one source, as it may be), in which case that might be the situation for the last problem you mentioned.

[patrickp]

Nevertheless that's what happens, GM. And the paths and filenames are completely correct (Linux paths and filenames are actually case sensitive). When I had some problems with the paths with the WIPs, I cleaned up the paths and filenames so there were no spaces etc: Linux can read paths with spaces, but requires either that they be enclosed in inverted commas (like Windows) or that there be a backslash (Linux uses forward slashes as separators in paths) before the space. But I thought it best to eliminate the problem.

But that isn't the problem anyway: images and memory cards load and run. That's why I made the text files just to start pSX with a digital or analog pad enabled: so I could run that, then run the problem text files with the appropriate pad already loaded rather than using a switch - which is what I was going to try next, anyway.

Ultima, ah, I didn't notice pSX Author had cleaned up the switch list in the v1.11 release. The WIPs still had the Windows list. That was only a comment, anyway; pSX Author commented a while back about some of the switches working and some not.

Edit: I just tried starting Chrono Cross and Wild Arms with the pad selection switch removed from the text file, and with the pad status preselected. Wild Arms works like that; Chrono Cross still doesn't.

I also tried pasting the startup line into a terminal rather than using a text file: again, Wild Arms works this way; Chrono Cross doesn't.

I should have mentioned before, as well: while none of the pad controls work for Chrono Cross, the buttons work for Wild Arms; it's the directional controls that don't.