Shoulders Not Working? - Shield Q&A

Every emulator I have tried is not seeing the bottom shoulder buttons. Some don't see the analog button either. Any suggestions? Makes emulators hard to manage when I can't find anywhere to assign the START and SELECT buttons.

Rodimus80 said:
Every emulator I have tried is not seeing the bottom shoulder buttons. Some don't see the analog button either. Any suggestions? Makes emulators hard to manage when I can't find anywhere to assign the START and SELECT buttons.
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Shoulder buttons (L1 L2 R1 R2) all work fine on Retroarch. Was playing some Doom2 earlier today and all is well.

bonapartist said:
Shoulder buttons (L1 L2 R1 R2) all work fine on Retroarch. Was playing some Doom2 earlier today and all is well.
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RetroArch does work indeed. The other emulators need to step up their games. Then again, Shield is still new.

Same for all controllers. Bottom triggers do not map for most emulators.

If you don't like retroarch and are rooted tincore keymapper can map all the buttons to something any emulator can see. Just assign the buttons on the shield to a,b,c,d,e,f or 1,2,3,4 5 ... etc then emulators have no problem detecting them. Just have to open tincore before you use your emulator.

Sounds good. I've been messing with RetroArch all day and I am impressed. Just as soon as I can use the Analog Sticks in it we should be good to go.

After playing my Shield for days now and only using RetroArch I am reassessing my opinion. The D-Pad is not as good as it should be. But that is really my only complaint. Other then that the Shield is my dream handheld.

Rodimus80 said:
After playing my Shield for days now and only using RetroArch I am reassessing my opinion. The D-Pad is not as good as it should be. But that is really my only complaint. Other then that the Shield is my dream handheld.
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Your not alone in that conclusion: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2417495

Rodimus80 said:
I can't find anywhere to assign the START and SELECT buttons.
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Personnaly, I assign START and SELECT on R3 et L3, which is great in a lot of emulated games.

What emulators are you having problems with?
I also couldn't get mupen to recognize the triggers but after selecting Dual Shock 3 input mode in settings I believe, I was able to map buttons to them as well.

Rodimus80 said:
After playing my Shield for days now and only using RetroArch I am reassessing my opinion. The D-Pad is not as good as it should be. But that is really my only complaint. Other then that the Shield is my dream handheld.
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could not agree more. still trying to work out a solution as some of my favorite games are flat out unplayable.

s0me guy said:
could not agree more. still trying to work out a solution as some of my favorite games are flat out unplayable.
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After playing for a week I would have to say that I have compensated for the crappy D-Pad. It still messes up here and there but hasn't ruined it for me. I highly recommend the Shield to any Retro Gamers. Just don't sit on the toilet with it. You'll never leave!!!

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Looking for a good NES emulator that is compatible w/ Touch Cruise

I've tried Pocket Nester, Pocket Nester Plus and Pocket NES, with several different ROMS. For the most of them, the opening screen seems to run, but neither the touch screen nor the d-pad controls seem to respond at all with the touch cruise.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
B.U.M.P...
((BUMP X2))
Try Morphgear.
I use SmarthGear and it's OK, but I don't know how to map the buttons in order to contro
it comfortably.
try pocketnester newest
then when u use your touch screen the game gonna run slow
i found a fix
just turn of your sound in pocket nester and it wil run perfect
* i got htc cruise with poketnester
FinalBurn
FinalBurn works great on Polaris!
I think it's one of the best ppc emulators ever.
You can play MetalSlug perfectly!
Give it a try!
I also use PocketGBA to emulate the GameBoyAdvance games, works good on Polaris but only a few roms (Sonic works very well).
Give it a try also!
Have fun!
HRQ.SLV said:
FinalBurn works great on Polaris!
I think it's one of the best ppc emulators ever.
You can play MetalSlug perfectly!
Give it a try!
I also use PocketGBA to emulate the GameBoyAdvance games, works good on Polaris but only a few roms (Sonic works very well).
Give it a try also!
Have fun!
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FinalBurn is for windows, do you mean picodrive for pocketpc on finalburn.com?
FinalBurn WinCE
fantasist said:
FinalBurn is for windows, do you mean picodrive for pocketpc on finalburn.com?
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I'm talking about "FinalBurn WinCE".
It's very complete. You can assing any hardware key (even assing touch keys on the screen) and save the game.
The resolution is great!
You can find it easely if you google it:
http://www.modaco.com/content/smartphone-software-games/247894/finalburn-for-wince-0-014/
or:
http://www.clubic.com/telecharger-fiche43886-finalburn-ce.html
Like i've said before: Have fun!
HRQ.SLV said:
I'm talking about "FinalBurn WinCE".
It's very complete. You can assing any hardware key (even assing touch keys on the screen) and save the game.
The resolution is great!
You can find it easely if you google it:
http://www.modaco.com/content/smartphone-software-games/247894/finalburn-for-wince-0-014/
or:
http://www.clubic.com/telecharger-fiche43886-finalburn-ce.html
Like i've said before: Have fun!
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Cool gonna try it.
Thank you for everyone's suggestions. I actually figured out what I did wrong for Pocket NESter at least. In my case, it looks like neither the "Send" nor "End" hardware buttons will respond if you try to map a controller button to either.
I tried mapping the "start" NES controller button to the "Send" HW key, which effectively prevented me for starting any game. Only the directional pad, "GPS", "IE", "Enter"(Center Button), "Voice Command" and "Camera" buttons worked when mapped.
Pocket Nester works fine with the D-Pad and HW buttons, but using the touch screen keypad, especially the directional one seemed to slow down the game significantly. I'll try the other suggestions to see how they wrok as well.
Thanks again.
Any idea if it is possible to run Pocket NESter full screen in landscape mode ?

emulators which work with TG-01

hi all,
i have spent hours scouring the forums ranging from the classy htc diamond ( which i loved btw) to the experia x1 (which is also cool) trying to find a good emulator for nes/snes games which support touchscreen, wvga, and the tg01's lack of hard buttons.
if anyone has any ideas or links or anything so we can all get a great emu working for the 1ghz hand sized tv screen then brilliant.
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dont think im being a console-ist by only asking for nes/snes but the idea of playing ps1 games on this beast with no hard buttons doesnt exactly thrill me to bits, but if you want to share your findings with everyone then feel free
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Play Station Emulator good? ^_^
There you go:
http://www.fpsece.net/
Just Google:
PSX /PS1 ISOs to get the games =)
Link for videos:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fpsece+1.0+tg01&search_type=&aq=f
morphgear is best snes emu but like you say with no buttons or multitouch emus are only really good for rpgs which is fine for me, fpsece is best emu out.
i would have thought we would have fullspeed/sound snes considering you can for psx but you cant.
neway if you get morphgear for hd2 and dreeds mulitouchpad for the best experience for snes, and you have to use the virtual mouse thing (slide finger up over strip bit on tg01) to be able to click on the settings
I guess what we really need is a touchscreen hook that will capture slide events and fire the appropriate cursor keys whilst in specific apps. Is there anything like that already?
wel i had a think about it and we need to make a touch screen keyboard with the typical up, down,left,rihtt and a,b,c buttons and map them to keys such as the wasd configuration. we could invoke the keyboad to pop up with a reg key or something to piggyback on the emu to rocess.
im not a programmer so i have no idea how to make this happen but will help with graphics if anone wants to try.
paroariax said:
I guess what we really need is a touchscreen hook Is there anything like that already?
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unless i am misunderstanding what you mean then this is already programed into fpsece and morphgear (using dreeds pad).
eg press circle button and slide finger up = up and circle.
i cant see and better improvements to fake multitouch happening, sorry if ive misunderstood u tho
if this pic come sup then brilliant, this is what i would like personally.
a proper nes pad layout linked to the virtual keypad so i can play pokemon games and such ( please dont mug off pokemon games, for a turn based rpg its pretty good)
there must be a way to link this to an emu
i am willing to help anyone with anything they need to make this work
also....
on a side note, any way to speed up the screen rotation, from what i understand, the os asks the g-sensor what state its in then adjusts accordingly. where as on other phones the g-sensor tells the os what its doing. can we speed up the refresh on this or is it a no go for now?
Just wondering if anyone has got mario rpg on the snes working via morphgear on there phone. For me i can either crash after the opening screens, where u press start to start game, or after a little bit into the game. When it does work it takes about 5 sec's to load each battle, frustrating.
Can i play games FPSCE with this device?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Mini-Bluetooth-...em&pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item2eadc504c6
@above not sure but you can just use a dualshock 3

GBA emulators

Anyone know/have any that work properly? Trying to use gameboid, but since x10 has no multi-touch, playing games like street fighter sucks. You can't pull off any combos since it only registers one tap at a time, and have to move forward first, then punch, then block etc. cant do them with one motion.
Thanks
What do you mean by work properly? No emulator will give X10 the multi-touch function, so it will always be a hard time playing games like street fighter
I've been using a combination of the on screen depad, the two volume control, and the camera button. This lowers the frustration behind the lack of multitouch as you can use the on-screen and hardware buttons simultaneously.
Even classic pokemon games suck Trying to just move around, you have to take finger off the screen for every time you want to change direction. Never really had a problem with no multi touch until now
ofiveo said:
Even classic pokemon games suck Trying to just move around, you have to take finger off the screen for every time you want to change direction. Never really had a problem with no multi touch until now
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Then you've got the wrogn emulator. Pokemon works just fine for me.. I use the controls as a joystick... no need to remove the finger. atleast not with Gameboid or something.. Not for me.
I sometimes connect a Wiimote to my X10 using WiimoteController and play using that.

3.1 update + FPSE + PS3 remote = HAPPINESS

Updated last night. Finally got to play around with it this morning. Plugged PS3 remote into USB port on the dock and fired up FPSE. Mapped all of the hardware keys from the controller in settings and now I am playing all of the PS1 goodness I can handle. Excellent!
what game u r currently playing ? and what version of fpse?
is there a chance to use a bluetooth controller aswell? or other solutions without a dock?
I haven't tried to use Motion in Joy to manully input the bluetooth mac address of my transformer yet as I am at work and motion in joy is installed on my computer at home. I am going to try that tonight and see if maybe they will pair now. I am playing Gran Turismo 2, Bloody Roar 2, Ultimate Doom, Rival Schools with no issues so far. FPSE version 0.10.31
The ps3 remote also works great with most of the other emulators.
So far, i've tested it on my transformer with:
Gensoid
Gearoid
SNesoid
Nesoid
Gameboid
GBCoid
N64oid <- for some reason i couldn't get the c-buttons to map to the right analogue stick properly, may look into this later...
ghostfaceg35 said:
I haven't tried to use Motion in Joy to manully input the bluetooth mac address of my transformer yet as I am at work and motion in joy is installed on my computer at home. I am going to try that tonight and see if maybe they will pair now. I am playing Gran Turismo 2, Bloody Roar 2, Ultimate Doom, Rival Schools with no issues so far. FPSE version 0.10.31
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so u are using older version than mine,0.10.48. I alredy tried 2 games : spyro 3 and Valkyrie profile, both have sound problem . I hope someone could test em too. the graphic quality is bad if compared to N64oid emulator, the 3d texture is pixelated, the resolution is also very low, so we can see the jaggy. my question is did I make wrong configuration?
about the game rom file, is it correct they come in several files like .ccd, .img, and .sub when we extract from zip file?
thanks in advance
ghostfaceg35 said:
Updated last night. Finally got to play around with it this morning. Plugged PS3 remote into USB port on the dock and fired up FPSE. Mapped all of the hardware keys from the controller in settings and now I am playing all of the PS1 goodness I can handle. Excellent!
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I've got a master emulator game and controller compatibility thread that's growing. I'll update your findings but please stop there to post any games you have luck with.
When you say PS3 remote do you mean controller? It's wired right?
any chance we can get a step by step how you setup the ps3 controller to fpse...
krighton said:
any chance we can get a step by step how you setup the ps3 controller to fpse...
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Sure. Plug the PS3 controller in with USB to the dock (obviously). Fire up FPSE and choose your game. Go into the options/settings (for FPSE) and select input. Change Bluetooth pad port 1 to BGP100. Then on touchscreen I turn off the skins for the onscreen controls. This is optional but why have them on screen when you are playing with a controller. Then hit the hardware keys option. Tap the screen for each key then touch the corresponding key on the controller to assign them. Once all buttons are assigned you're done. You have to do it for every game the first time you play it then it will remember your settings for that particular game.
Also I don't run the game in full screen (someone was talking about the graphics) I run it in 4:3 centered. It looks better that way.
edit: Also didn't get a chance to use motion in joy to manually enter my transformer's BT MAC address into a ps3 controller last night to see if wireless might be an option now.
k thanks, i'll give it a shot
when i get to the part where it says press a key, nothing happens.....any idea what would cause that.
tried a different controller and it worked...weird...both work fine on the ps3.
thanks
oh and do i save within game or do i have to go to the fpse menu to save...keeps asking me to load bios, or do you have to do that each time you setup a new game?
krighton said:
when i get to the part where it says press a key, nothing happens.....any idea what would cause that.
tried a different controller and it worked...weird...both work fine on the ps3.
thanks
oh and do i save within game or do i have to go to the fpse menu to save...keeps asking me to load bios, or do you have to do that each time you setup a new game?
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On the system menu after you select a BIOS go down to the bottom and save as default config. You might have to push the home button on the PS3 controller to get it to assign the keys. It wasn't registering my keypresses on the assignment menu so I hit the home key like two times (it ended up registering the first button as home and I had to change it).
Excuse my ignorance but what is fpse?
JMQUINT00 said:
Excuse my ignorance but what is fpse?
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LINK for you.
Have you tried Final Fantasy 7?
I never beat that game....
How would one go about trying to pair the PS3 controller to the Transformer via Bluetooth? Isn't motion in joy for a PC/Windows?
Thanks
So far I get nothing but FC's and problems with FPSE. Which version are you using and what games seem to work? I have a lot of old PS1 discs but none of the images I've made will load without a FC.
I've been trying to run off the micro sd. Is that a problem?
Transformer 3.1 stock.
Can anyone confirm the female USB adapter works with the ps3 controller Thanks
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk
lithiasalesjs said:
Can anyone confirm the female USB adapter works with the ps3 controller Thanks
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk
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Where did you get your female USB adapter from? is it 3.0?
Amazon
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

[Q]-Joystick controls while PC steaming

So I've done my first attempts at PC streaming last night with my shield. I noticed I could only use touch controls until I did the double finger tap or the hardware button that brings up that little overlay with home/help/etc. Once I close this overlay, joystick control of the UI stopped and it was back to just touch. As an example, I pulled up Hearthstone on the shield. I had touch control only but the joysticks worked fine when using the grid beta (I tried some Red Faction). How do I use the joysticks while doing PC Streaming? I saw in nvidia's faq/demo video that he's playing Borderlands 2 on the shield and using the joysticks.
As an aside, I'm rooted, button savior is running and haven't yet upgraded to the kitkat OTA but it is there waiting.
NapalmDawn said:
So I've done my first attempts at PC streaming last night with my shield. I noticed I could only use touch controls until I did the double finger tap or the hardware button that brings up that little overlay with home/help/etc. Once I close this overlay, joystick control of the UI stopped and it was back to just touch. As an example, I pulled up Hearthstone on the shield. I had touch control only but the joysticks worked fine when using the grid beta (I tried some Red Faction). How do I use the joysticks while doing PC Streaming? I saw in nvidia's faq/demo video that he's playing Borderlands 2 on the shield and using the joysticks.
As an aside, I'm rooted, button savior is running and haven't yet upgraded to the kitkat OTA but it is there waiting.
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Is Hearthstone the only game you've tried? Hearthstone does not support controllers afaik (the supported game list shows that it supports m&k though). You may want to try a game that does support it, such as L4D2 or Borderlands 2 as you mentioned.
Other than that I haven't had issues playing supported games with the controller.
hurrpancakes said:
Is Hearthstone the only game you've tried? Hearthstone does not support controllers afaik (the supported game list shows that it supports m&k though). You may want to try a game that does support it, such as L4D2 or Borderlands 2 as you mentioned.
Other than that I haven't had issues playing supported games with the controller.
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Well what's available to me atm is Stick of Truth, Hearthstone, Titanfall, few others. So it has to be on the supported list for the joysticks to handle cursor movement in the UI? When the little overlay is up, the joystick will move the arrow and the buttons act as mouse clicks. Once I close the UI, it's back to touch only.
NapalmDawn said:
Well what's available to me atm is Stick of Truth, Hearthstone, Titanfall, few others. So it has to be on the supported list for the joysticks to handle cursor movement in the UI? When the little overlay is up, the joystick will move the arrow and the buttons act as mouse clicks. Once I close the UI, it's back to touch only.
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On that list I linked, when it shows the mouse and keyboard symbol, it means that it supports bluetooth or usb mouse and keyboard. The gamepad on the shield will send signals as a gamepad in any streamed game, no matter what. It doesn't mean that the controller can be used as a mouse, unfortunately.
So basically, South Park and Titanfall will work fine with the Shield controller, but Hearthstone does not have controller support, and Shield won't act as a mouse like it does in the usual Android interface for it.
hurrpancakes said:
On that list I linked, when it shows the mouse and keyboard symbol, it means that it supports bluetooth or usb mouse and keyboard. The gamepad on the shield will send signals as a gamepad in any streamed game, no matter what. It doesn't mean that the controller can be used as a mouse, unfortunately.
So basically, South Park and Titanfall will work fine with the Shield controller, but Hearthstone does not have controller support, and Shield won't act as a mouse like it does in the usual Android interface for it.
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Thanks hurrp.

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