Xarcade2Joystick

Xarcade2Jstick exclusively captures the keyboard events of the Xarcade Tankstick and maps these events to corresponding events on two virtual game pad devices.

Xarcade2Jstick was originally written as a supplementary tool for the RetroPie Project. Using this tool allows the usage of the auto-config capability of RetroArch, a central component of a RetroPie installation.

Usage

Your Xarcade will appear as two gamepads and a keyboard that can be used accordingly. There are also some special combinations of buttons that have special meaning:

• P1 select + P1 start = TAB
• P2 select + P2 start = ESC

The select buttons are the front buttons on each side of the joystick. The start buttons are the white top-center buttons.

Your Xarcade will also show up as a keyboard that receives the regular keyboard events. This allows you to configure some emulators using keybard events instead of the gamepads.

Downloading

If you would like to download the current version of Xarcade2Jstick from its Github repository, you can use this command:

git clone https://github.com/petrockblog/Xarcade2Jstick

Building and Installation

To build Xarcade2Jstick follow these commands:

cd Xarcade2Jstick
make

If everything went fine you can install with the command

sudo make install

Installation as Service

You can install Xarcade2Jstick as daemon with this command:

sudo make installservice

Uninstalling the service and/or the binary

You can uninstall the daemon with this command:

sudo make uninstallservice

You can uninstall the binary with this command:

sudo make uninstall

Have fun!

-Florian petrockblock.com