jamma device numbers change every reboot

[bash64]

My jamma joysticks change device numbers on every reboot.
For example: turbo pacman uses joy 3, on next reboot joy 3 changes to joy4 and i have to resetup the controls.
Since I stream and entertain this is beyond annoying and really hurts my ability to play games.
3 of my sticks are usb and i can use udev in linux to map them to the same joy number every boot.
but i cant control the jamma sticks the same way.
is there any way to do this?
thanks

[bash64]

i just finished some research on this.
i booted and my main joy came up as joy4 when selecting it using mame
i kept rebooting until it said it was joy2.
i tested js0 in linux and its the same joystick
its not a linux issue
its a mame issue

linux always sees that joy as js0

not sure what controls how mame numbers joysticks but i have to find it.
before i go nutz

[bash64]

i think this answers the issue:
https://docs.mamedev.org/advanced/devicemap.html

[dee2eR]

Can you assign your USB controls to /dev/input/js3 (and above)? If you can't re-assign the JAMMA inputs that may be a way around them and the hotkeys using js0 (p1), js1 (p2) and js2 (part of the hotkey system).

EDIT: just saw your updates... weird that MAME is remapping if they appear right to the kernel... is that over all MAMEs or a particular version?

[bash64]

i have my 3 usb sticks mapped to joy 4,5,6 using linux on boot
linux maps the jamma joys to js0 -> js3

according to the article i found mame is the goofball in the room.

I was able to use mame230 to get the device id's for my jamma sticks
mame172 doesnt output that info

to get the info change to the mame folder:
>cd /home/pi/mame230

then run the mame binary and use the verbose switch as such
>./mamearcade -v

to preserve a copy redirect the output to a text file as such
>./mamearcade -v >joy.txt

i am making a mapdevice xml file to permanently assign all jamma devices to specific names like joy1->joy3

i will share it when i get it tested

apparently i can do this also for the usb joysticks rather than having linux do it using udev rules.

[bash64]

Using the mame230 verbose output which shows the device id's for my jamma joysticks I was able to make this file called jamma.cfg:

<mameconfig version="10">
<system name="default">

<!-- Jamma Version 1.0 input configuration file -->
<input>
<mapdevice device="0300000009d200001105000011010000" controller="JOYCODE_1" />
<mapdevice device="15000000010000000100000000010000" controller="JOYCODE_2" />
<mapdevice device="0000000058626f782047616d65706100" controller="JOYCODE_3" />
<mapdevice device="15000000010000000200000000010000" controller="JOYCODE_4" />
<mapdevice device="15000000010000000300000000010000" controller="JOYCODE_5" />
<mapdevice device="15000000010000000300000000010000" controller="JOYCODE_6" />
</input>
</system>

</mameconfig>



will it work, have no idea.
it seems only mame172 and higher support this and have a ctrlr folder for controller configs.

gonna give it a try

[dee2eR]

Did you have any luck with it?

[bash64]

been in hospital many days.
will get to it.

[dee2eR]

I hope you are OK. Get well soon.

[bash64]

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