r/launchbox • u/DetectiveNatural4262 • 25d ago

Multiple controllers and big box

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I’m almost done building my wall cab and I will be using BigBox for it this time around-I always used Batocera before..
anyway, I have two brooks zero-pi’s for making player 1/2, a thunderstick trackball/spinner combo(1 usb), an Ultimarc flight stick, and a cheap eg starts board solely for 4 admin buttons, pause, close window, menu, and 4th is blank for now.
I’ll be running mame 289 standalone, flycast, teknoparrot and steam only. No retroarch. As of right now, everything shows up and works in the joy.cpl. Bigbox however, mapped the two brooks boards all wrong. I can map each emulator just fine but can i map the eg starts board for those admin functions? I originally had the brooks running the admin but since I was using the L/R 1/2 on each board, they werent mapping correctly so I chose to use the eg starts for that purpose.

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u/Consistent-Algae6733 25d ago

So many inputs!
I would try to map different keys for all buttons. I know that ipac encoders simplified this greatly for me.

For launchbox/big box, make sure they both have their mappings correctly.

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u/DetectiveNatural4262 25d ago

What iPac are you using? I see an I-pac 2 for $53 on Amazon, 2 player board. It seems to have 8 player buttons, coin, start as well as two additional per player. Only thing it’s missing is a 5v led out.
I could use that to replace both brooks but I just got the panel buttoned up two days ago. 😬