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Mapping Keyboard Keys to RaspiBoy Buttons
Posted: Thu 18 Jan 2018 20:01
by Bosco
Hi. Is there someone here familiar with Raspian/Retropie who knows how to do the following?
I'm running the latest Retropie distro on my RaspiBoy and enjoy playing 8-bit Dragon and Tandy Color Computer games using the XRoar emulator. The only drawback with this is I have to attach a keyboard in order to quit back (Ctrl+Q) to the game menu or access some of the more useful keyboard shortcuts.
Is there a way to map XRoar keyboard shortcuts to Raspiboy buttons?
I'm not super technical but any help would be appreciated.
Many thanks.
Re: Mapping Keyboard Keys to RaspiBoy Buttons
Posted: Thu 18 Jan 2018 23:22
by Vilikt
Hello !
I found a working solution ! Actually I'm making a tuto to explain how

Re: Mapping Keyboard Keys to RaspiBoy Buttons
Posted: Thu 18 Jan 2018 23:32
by Bosco
Cool!

Re: Mapping Keyboard Keys to RaspiBoy Buttons
Posted: Fri 19 Jan 2018 10:15
by Vilikt
I gone a little too fast...
At this point I'm able to map the Battery Status button to ESC key by running my python script in a SSH session.
So now I try to figure how I can run it during the boot. So it works but not exactly as we want

Re: Mapping Keyboard Keys to RaspiBoy Buttons
Posted: Fri 19 Jan 2018 13:16
by Bosco
@Vilikt There's some info here but I don't fully understand it.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/181 ... -gamepad-s
Re: Mapping Keyboard Keys to RaspiBoy Buttons
Posted: Fri 19 Jan 2018 14:24
by Vilikt
Thank you
After all I think I found the solution, I'll try it this evening and keep in touch

Re: Mapping Keyboard Keys to RaspiBoy Buttons
Posted: Fri 19 Jan 2018 21:26
by Bosco
Sounds encouraging.

Re: Mapping Keyboard Keys to RaspiBoy Buttons
Posted: Sat 20 Jan 2018 13:15
by Vilikt
The tutorial is
here 
Re: Mapping Keyboard Keys to RaspiBoy Buttons
Posted: Sat 20 Jan 2018 15:17
by Bosco
Thanks @Vilikt. I'll take a look.
Does your example map the BIB to ESC across all emulators?
I only ask because I want to map the front buttons for XRoar but leave them unchanged for SNES etc.
Re: Mapping Keyboard Keys to RaspiBoy Buttons
Posted: Sat 20 Jan 2018 16:24
by Vilikt
Yes, it is for all emulators