[Auto-solved] Generic Joypad not working in PPSSPP

Hello to all slackers, I had a problem with my usb generic game controller and PPSSPP.
It was not reconized by the emulator. However it worked perfectly everywhere else including sdl-jstest and sdl2-jstest.

After launching it through a console it showed a "/usr/games/assets/gamecontrollerdb.txt: FAILED! Please place gamecontrollerdb.txt in your assets directory"

A locate gamecontrollerdb.txt showed it was in /usr/share/ppsspp/assets instead of the expected (by ppsspp engine) /user/games/assets together with a few other *.ini the console output showed missing.

Ofcourse copying the directory fixed the problem.

I'll leave that here for reference.

I don't know weather is a Slackbuild problem or a ppsspp problem.

Well that's that, happy Easter!

This is fixed in PPSSPP 1.4.

Use my SlackBuild:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/du...spp.SlackBuild

Note: my SlackBuild requires Qt 5.

Originally Posted by dugan This is fixed in PPSSPP 1.4. Use my SlackBuild: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/du...spp.SlackBuild Note: my SlackBuild requires Qt 5.

Thank you for the info, however I'm on 14.2 so until official update i'll stick to qt4.
The fix seems to work flawlessy and I don't think anything will ever use the /usr/games/assets folder so it's not a big issue.
I'll leave here the solution in case someone on 14.2 will find the same bug.

Happy Easter!

Originally Posted by spike86 Thank you for the info, however I'm on 14.2 so until official update i'll stick to qt4.

Just a note, both SlackBuilds and Eric's qt5 packages coexist with Slackware's qt4 package. This allows you to run both qt4 and qt5 packages.

qt5 is not a required dependency for ppsspp, it also has a SDL2 frontend.

If SDL2 isn't found, qt5 is used as an alternate. I guess it depends on the SlackBuild maintainer on what is "required".

    if(NOT SDL2_FOUND)
        find_package(Qt5 COMPONENTS Multimedia)

well i do have sdl2 so i may give it a try

thanks!

If you're doing your own builds, you choose whether to do an SDL2 build or a Qt 5 build, or both.

The SlackBuild on my GitHub page does both, and thus requires both SDL2 and Qt 5.

Yesterday, I sent in a 1.4 SlackBuild to SlackBuilds.org. That will do an SDL2 build, requiring only SDL2, and allow you to enable an additional Qt 5 build by passing in an option.