[Atari800-users] Cannot get my USB joystick to work

[Greg H. <gre...@ba...>]

Hello. I find the emulator works great on Arch Linux with XFCE except for
one detail: if I map my USB joystick to keys using qjoypad, the emulator
thinks the fire button is always pressed. So when running Jumpman, my guy
constantly jumps.

I have had no issue using qjoypad this way with any other emulators (eg
mednafen, stella, coolcv, vice64).

My goal is to configure a series of emulators this way, and use my own menu
system with zenity to choose a game, such that I only need a joystick (the
menu system itself has a qjoypad configuration). I can then get a system
running on something like an RPI 4 hooked up to a TV.

I tried some retro distros, and found they were a pain to configure,
couldn't get newer versions to boot on my older rpi, and don't work very
well for systems like an atari 800 or c64 that have a keyboard.

Since I really only need my one joystick to work, I'm happy to
pre-configure all the emulators ahead of time, and a very simple shell
script can select the qjoypad config I need for a given system (and
possibly the individual game) and then run the game.

If I can just solve this one problem, then this emulator will be perfect!