I've owned an X Arcade 2 player controller for a long time, but it only just dawned on me that I've never tried it with a Raspberry Pi to see if it would work. Really don't know why I haven't thought of trying this before.

Did a quick Google and it is directly supported in Linux with drivers existing called xarcade2jstick. And you can easily set it up to fully work with a RPi4 running RetroPie by just installing the needed driver from its configuration menu. Then it will work as your player 1 and player 2 controllers.

I'm going to try this out at the weekend.

This video outlines the process and shows it working.



I also had a thought that with the size of a RPi and the Xarcade control case you could easily build a RPi inside of thy Xarcade and make it an all in one setup. Would be quite cool. I'm not going to do that though as I use my RPi4 for other stuff.
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