Setting up Controllers in FS-UAE Arcade?

I have controllers perfectly set-up in FS-UAE Launcher on macOS Sierra. Retro Joystick Adaptor 3.0 and 8Bitdo controllers work perfectly. They worked out of the box.

Trouble is, I can't get controllers to work in FS-UAE Arcade. When I launch a game in Arcade i get the option screen for controls. However, the only option I seem to have is to moving "Keyboard" with the arrow keys from "Joystick" => "Mouse" and vice verca.

Totally confused! Am I missing out something fundamental?

I'm using 2.9.6dev at the moment, but it's been like this since far earlier and stable versions.

No reply, so I figure it wasn't clear enough.

In Arcade all available joypads/joysticks are displayed on the screen, but I don't know how to select any of them. I've tried pressing ever button as well as any key on the keyboard.

As I mentioned earlier all controls work perfectly with Launcher.

OT: I'm having a retrogaming friend coming over tomorrow, so it would be nice to impress with Arcade (not that launcher is bad).

[FrodeSolheim]

Hi, I'm guessing that the joysticks lack configuration. (They will still usually work fine with basic Amiga emulation, since that only strictly needs one button = all buttons are mapped to fire).

Go into Launcher settings -> Joysticks (or Controllers in the latest dev version), doubleclick on a device and map all the available buttons there.

(If you use a classic joystick via adapter, just map the fire button as "south button", you'll see what I mean).

(Sorry you missed it working for the retrogaming evening :-/ )

Originally Posted by FrodeSolheim

Go into Launcher settings -> Joysticks (or Controllers in the latest dev version), doubleclick on a device and map all the available buttons there.

I'm not the TO, but that fixed my similar problem. Thanks!

[FrodeSolheim]

I'm going to add explicit warnings when gamepads are missing configs (https://github.com/FrodeSolheim/fs-uae/issues/146) to avoid users getting confused when gamepads only work "sometimes".

Embarrassingly, I didn't notice the little instruction below the controller list. Maybe a "configure buttons" button or something else that is more eye-catching could help "blind" people like me.