And both controllers now work! My final question is:

when I open the config file like this:

sudo nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

for some reason shift and ” does not make this character I am trying to add your hotkeys and can type everything but the ” ” around the hot key, am I missing something or is it detecting my wireless keyboard incorrectly?

EDIT: Fixed, I noticed when I hit shift and ” it produced @ so I tried shift and 2 and got ” ;-)