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Title: Issue with Pi and Ipac2 controller
Post by: Kbittner14 on December 06, 2015, 03:35:23 pm

First off I'm using the Raspberry Pi 2 B with Happ joysticks and buttons.

So the issue I'm having is when I'm playing games in any of the emulators I've tried. My joystick and buttons seem to control the Retropie menus just fine but when I load a game, at the bottom of the screen, it says ultimac ipac controller not configured.

I've tried following the steps on https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration but to no avail I have had no luck. When I try testing the controls in notepad on my laptop it appears to be acting right.
They do provide some function in the games but for instance the left and right on my joystick are opposite. I've double checked my wiring and everything looks good. The only thing that I'm going to change in the wiring is that I grounded each player seperatley with a pre made daisy chain only to eliminate any possibility of a grounding issue.

Any suggestions? Please help! I'm new to all of this.
Thanks,
Kevin

Title: Re: Issue with Pi and Ipac2 controller
Post by: obcd on December 08, 2015, 05:54:51 am

From the link you are giving:

After you've configured your controller the autoconfig will be created here:

/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads

Do you have that file? Can you give it's contents?

Which version of retropi are you using?

Title: Re: Issue with Pi and Ipac2 controller
Post by: pnicefor on February 28, 2016, 10:29:49 pm

I too am having the same issue.  I have the IPAC 2 settings correct, some MAME and FBA games work while all other emulations *nes, snes, atari) do not work.  All my setting are accurate.  The pother issue I am facing is that I cannot run the retroArch config input option.  it will not allow me to select enter to enter into the settings..  I renamed the Ultimarc IPAC 2 cfg file, but cannot get it to reproduce another one when I configure a controller. I have been at this for the past few days.. ;-(

Please help if someone know how to configure, Raspberry Pi2, with IPAC 2, (default settings)

Thank you. :banghead:

Title: Re: Issue with Pi and Ipac2 controller
Post by: robboman123 on March 22, 2016, 10:36:14 am

Andy at Ultimarc has issued a firmware update for the Ipac.. 1.34.  It makes it so that the Ipac is no longer detected as a 'gamepad' device, and instead appears to the OS as a keyboard\mouse (if you have trackball, spinner, or mouse connected to the pins for that). 

So far I've found 1.34 resolves the "Ultimarc Ipac controller not configured" message in the SNES emulator.  I'm still having some trouble getting my trackball to work (through the Ipac) in versions of Mame besides AdvMame.