Post subject: Controller Help
PFMC84
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I have a wired XBOX360 controller that I use with my laptop to play games on BizHawk. Everything works fine. But, when I try to plug another one in to play a 2P game with a friend, the laptop recognises it as a second controller but BizHawk doesn't and doesn't recognise button presses when mapping the buttons. Any ideas on what the problem could be or how I can get 2P working fine. I have tried a USB Playstation 3 controller but it lags and there are phantom button presses etc so it is unplayable. Thanks.
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did you try closing and reopening bizhawk after you plugged the 2nd controller in?
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PFMC84
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The second controller is always plugged in so it was already there before BizHwk was started up. Windows recognises it as a second controller and it works on other applications, but not in Bizhawk sadly.
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bizhawk won't support more than 1 xinput device until the next release
PFMC84
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Ok. Thanks for that. Glad to hear it's in the pipeline. Hopefully the next release isn't too far away then. :)
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It's already been fixed, if you can get a development build
PFMC84
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Oh, that would be great. Where can I get a copy of the development build? It is listed publicly or so I need to ask someone for it privately? Would love to get a copy of it for using tonight as a friend is calling over and I would like to play 2P with him instead of having to take turns in 1P!
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Anyone? :)
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I think "development build" means compiling it yourself.
PFMC84
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Oh, I see. I'll give that a try later on tonight then.
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Well, I managed to compile it just fine following all the instructions to the letter. Only problem I encountered was that SNES games wouldn't open, but NES games did just fine. I wonder what I did wrong or didn't do to get SNES games working...
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you didnt change the x64 build target to x86
PFMC84
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Ahh... That wasn't mentioned in the compiling guide. I will try that tonight then and see how I get on. Thanks.