Control: reassign -1 src:libretro-bsnes-mercury On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 09:44:57PM +0000, Hugh Cole-Baker wrote: > In Kodi 20 in Debian testing, game addons don't seem to receive any input from > a USB game controller. > > I have an attached USB game controller (VID 2dc8, PID 9001, 8Bitdo NES30 Pro) > which is working OK to control the user interface in Kodi to navigate menus, > etc, but when I launch a game in Kodi, the game doesn't receive any input from > the controller. The Kodi UI still seems to receive game controller input while > the game is running, for example I can press Select+Start to exit the game, > or hold Start to bring up the Kodi game settings menu, but the actual game > can't be controlled at all. > > This is a regression from the previous version, since I had the same game > controller working with the libretro-based game addons in Kodi 19 on Bullseye.
There was no kodi-game-libretro that was part of Bullseye, so I think that must have been from an external repository. > I have mapped the buttons in Kodi's settings for both the default type of > controller (named "Kodi" in the UI) and the "Super Nintendo" control scheme, > and have tested and found this problem with the libretro > "kodi-game-libretro-bsnes-mercury-performance" Debian package, but also with > other libretro addons I've built locally, so I don't think it's specific to > any single libretro game addon, and the controller works fine in other Kodi > UI, so kodi-game-libretro seemed like the most appropriate package to report > the bug against. I can't comment on the local addons you've tried, but I've managed to reproduce this and the issue is with the kodi-game-libretro-bsnes-mercury-* packages. They are failing to install the buttonmap.xml into the correct subdirectory; I think what's happened is my testing left around a buttonmap.xml in the correct place, which is why I never noticed. Try: sudo mv /usr/share/kodi/addons/game.libretro.bsnes-mercury-performance/buttonmap.xml /usr/share/kodi/addons/game.libretro.bsnes-mercury-performance/resources/ which will move the button map into the correct location. > Some things I've noticed that could be useful info: > - if I hold Start while a game is running in the BSNES emulator, and go into > Settings->Controls, the Kodi UI shows "Super Nintendo" under the controller > profile, and a picture of a SNES gamepad, but under the list of "Buttons" > it says "Nothing to map". I'd sorta expect the SNES gamepad buttons to be > listed there. The controller mapping needs to be done in the main Kodi configuration screen: System -> Input -> Configure attached controllers. You should see "Super Nintendo" listed there. J. -- In case of nuclear attack, delete this message.
