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Using Multiple Controllers Possible? - Arnax - 10-11-2015
Hi,
Not sure if I'm missing something, but I haven't been able to play multiplayer games on my NVIDIA Shield.
I connected multiple controllers and enabled them in the Dolphin settings and was able to assign button mappings to each. However, games only seem to recognize one controller. I only have 1 NVIDIA controller and the others are generic Bluetooth controllers; would that be part of the issue? It seems odd considering the Shield and the app respond to all of them, but I suppose it's possible that the emulator itself is confused by the Bluetooth ones. If you have any insight or suggestions, I'd love to hear them.Thanks!
RE: Using Multiple Controllers Possible? - Nintonito - 10-12-2015
Stock android has a terrible time reading multiple controllers. 4 SHIELD controllers will work because Nvidia has fleshed out the firmware to be able to handle 4 at once, but third party controllers are unpredictable. Also dolphin on android is still very in development and multi-controller support is probably mostly unfinished.
RE: Using Multiple Controllers Possible? - Arnax - 10-12-2015
Thanks for the response. I'm not really sure it's a driver issue since all of the controllers work on the Shield in general (even in the Dolphin app, just not when actually inside a game). I don't know how the controllers interface with the emulator though, so I wouldn't be surprised if there is some disconnect there, especially considering this is still an alpha version. Have you personally tried it with multiple Shield controllers? If that indeed works then I may have to invest in some more of those controllers.
RE: Using Multiple Controllers Possible? - kiwoore - 10-19-2015
(10-12-2015, 01:24 PM)Arnax Wrote: Thanks for the response. I'm not really sure it's a driver issue since all of the controllers work on the Shield in general (even in the Dolphin app, just not when actually inside a game). I don't know how the controllers interface with the emulator though, so I wouldn't be surprised if there is some disconnect there, especially considering this is still an alpha version. Have you personally tried it with multiple Shield controllers? If that indeed works then I may have to invest in some more of those controllers.
Hi Arnax,
I had exactly the same problem than you with the 2nd and 3rd xbox 360 controllers on the Shield TV. I have found a solution that it had worked perfectly in my case.
Modify the file sdcard/0/dolphin-emu/Config/dolphin.ini, the controllers for multiplayer are not being set with SIDevice 6 (you'll notice p1 has 6, but p2,3,4 have 0,0,0).
Be sure to close the Dolphin emulator before to change the configure file, if not the values will be overwritten.
Here you can find more information:
https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-arm64-version-on-shield-tv-x1-local-multiplayer-not-working-d-pad-mappings
I hope that it will be useful for you.
RE: Using Multiple Controllers Possible? - Arnax - 10-19-2015
(10-19-2015, 07:53 AM)kiwoore Wrote:(10-12-2015, 01:24 PM)Arnax Wrote: Thanks for the response. I'm not really sure it's a driver issue since all of the controllers work on the Shield in general (even in the Dolphin app, just not when actually inside a game). I don't know how the controllers interface with the emulator though, so I wouldn't be surprised if there is some disconnect there, especially considering this is still an alpha version. Have you personally tried it with multiple Shield controllers? If that indeed works then I may have to invest in some more of those controllers.
Hi Arnax,
I had exactly the same problem than you with the 2nd and 3rd xbox 360 controllers on the Shield TV. I have found a solution that it had worked perfectly in my case.
Modify the file sdcard/0/dolphin-emu/Config/dolphin.ini, the controllers for multiplayer are not being set with SIDevice 6 (you'll notice p1 has 6, but p2,3,4 have 0,0,0).
Be sure to close the Dolphin emulator before to change the configure file, if not the values will be overwritten.
Here you can find more information:
https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-arm64-version-on-shield-tv-x1-local-multiplayer-not-working-d-pad-mappings
I hope that it will be useful for you.
Yes I saw that thread as well and it worked for me too! Thanks for the head's up though.
