Did you ever get this figured out? I am going crazy trying to get this to work.

First of all, I would try and test everything without the USB controller being connected.

I got one of those, it works perfectly.

Hey mate, are you running overclocked?

are you using a powered usb hub?

are you using an sdimage? 1.5 or 1.6.1? or you build from source?

i took all my other emulators and stuck them in a folder so just NES is where it should be since thats all im interested in. f10 to quit out of that apple emulator and f4 to get back to terminal. you can in theory map to a NAS but thats so much of a pain if you plug in a usb stick it will create a ROM folder on it just put your roms in the appropriate folder and when you plug it back in it will auto copy them off. hope that helps a little.

how do you get your joystick name? i have tried the input name and that doesn’t work for me and im out of ideas as to where to find the name. since its an analog device it does not show up in either of the two folders inside of /dev/input

i only say that on an assumption since the only devices listed in either of those folders are USB devices.

Thanks!

A question for you, what did you use to allow overwriting the sound to the headphones instead of the USB speakers. I too have a pair of USB speakers connected to my 7-port powered hub. I’m going to mount an analog audio jack on the front of the table but I don’t know how to reroute the sound and disable the speakers.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! :)

Hi,

I am having exactly the same issue. Emulator hangs on the DGEN splash screen. I have the same config as the opening poster (perhaps the controllers are a different brand :p) If it helps, we’re using the RetroPie v1.6 Beta disk image. NES is successfully working with two usb snes style controllers.

DGENRC: /home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/dgen-sdl contains “sample.dgenrc”. Is there a mthod for setting up DGEN separately that could be causing the hang?

Alternatively in .dgenrc there is a DGENRC file that contains two commented out lines, and the additional dgenrc.auto file that looks like:

# DGen/SDL v1.32
# This file is automatically overwritten.

key_pad1_up = "UP"
joy_pad1_up = "joystick0-axis1-min"
key_pad1_down = "DOWN"
joy_pad1_down = "joystick0-axis1-max"
key_pad1_left = "LEFT"
joy_pad1_left = "joystick0-axis0-min"
key_pad1_right = "RIGHT"
joy_pad1_right = "joystick0-axis0-max"
key_pad1_a = "a"
joy_pad1_a = "joystick0-button0"
key_pad1_b = "s"
joy_pad1_b = "joystick0-button1"
key_pad1_c = "d"
joy_pad1_c = "joystick0-button2"
key_pad1_x = "q"
joy_pad1_x = "joystick0-button3"
key_pad1_y = "w"
joy_pad1_y = "joystick0-button4"
key_pad1_z = "e"
joy_pad1_z = "joystick0-button5"
key_pad1_mode = "BACKSPACE"
joy_pad1_mode = "joystick0-button6"
key_pad1_start = "RETURN"
joy_pad1_start = "joystick0-button7"
key_pad2_up = "KP_8"
joy_pad2_up = "joystick1-axis1-min"
key_pad2_down = "KP_2"
joy_pad2_down = "joystick1-axis1-max"
key_pad2_left = "KP_4"
joy_pad2_left = "joystick1-axis0-min"
key_pad2_right = "KP_6"
joy_pad2_right = "joystick1-axis0-max"
key_pad2_a = "DELETE"
joy_pad2_a = "joystick1-button0"
key_pad2_b = "END"
joy_pad2_b = "joystick1-button1"
key_pad2_c = "PAGE_DOWN"
joy_pad2_c = "joystick1-button2"
key_pad2_x = "INSERT"
joy_pad2_x = "joystick1-button3"
key_pad2_y = "HOME"
joy_pad2_y = "joystick1-button4"
key_pad2_z = "PAGE_UP"
joy_pad2_z = "joystick1-button5"
key_pad2_mode = "KP_PLUS"
joy_pad2_mode = "joystick1-button6"
key_pad2_start = "KP_ENTER"
joy_pad2_start = "joystick1-button7"
key_fix_checksum = "F1"
joy_fix_checksum = ''
key_quit = "ESCAPE"
joy_quit = ''
key_craptv_toggle = "F5"
joy_craptv_toggle = ''
key_scaling_toggle = "F6"
joy_scaling_toggle = ''
key_screenshot = "F12"
joy_screenshot = ''
key_reset = "TAB"
joy_reset = ''
key_slot_0 = "0"
joy_slot_0 = ''
key_slot_1 = "1"
joy_slot_1 = ''
key_slot_2 = "2"
joy_slot_2 = ''
key_slot_3 = "3"
joy_slot_3 = ''
key_slot_4 = "4"
joy_slot_4 = ''
key_slot_5 = "5"
joy_slot_5 = ''
key_slot_6 = "6"
joy_slot_6 = ''
key_slot_7 = "7"
joy_slot_7 = ''
key_slot_8 = "8"
joy_slot_8 = ''
key_slot_9 = "9"
joy_slot_9 = ''
key_save = "F2"
joy_save = ''
key_load = "F3"
joy_load = ''
key_z80_toggle = "F10"
joy_z80_toggle = ''
key_cpu_toggle = "F11"
joy_cpu_toggle = ''
key_stop = "z"
joy_stop = ''
key_game_genie = "F9"
joy_game_genie = ''
key_fullscreen_toggle = "alt-RETURN"
joy_fullscreen_toggle = ''
key_debug_enter = "

”
joy_debug_enter = ”
key_prompt = “:”
joy_prompt = ”
bool_vdp_hide_plane_a = false
bool_vdp_hide_plane_b = false
bool_vdp_hide_plane_w = false
bool_vdp_hide_sprites = false
bool_vdp_sprites_boxing = false
int_vdp_sprites_boxing_fg = 16776960
int_vdp_sprites_boxing_bg = 65280
bool_autoload = false
bool_autosave = false
bool_autoconf = true
bool_frameskip = true
bool_show_carthead = false
str_rom_path = “roms”
bool_raw_screenshots = false
ctv_craptv_startup = off
scaling_startup = default
emu_z80_startup = cz80
emu_m68k_startup = musa
bool_sound = true
int_soundrate = 22050
int_soundsegs = 8
int_soundsamples = 0
int_volume = 100
key_volume_inc = “=”
joy_volume_inc = ”
key_volume_dec = “-”
joy_volume_dec = ”
bool_mjazz = false
int_nice = 0
int_hz = 50
bool_pal = true
region = ‘ ‘
str_region_order = “JUEX”
bool_fps = false
bool_buttons = false
bool_fullscreen = false
int_info_height = -1
int_width = -1
int_height = -1
int_scale = -1
int_scale_x = -1
int_scale_y = -1
int_depth = 0
bool_swab = false
bool_opengl = true
bool_opengl_aspect = true
int_opengl_width = -1
int_opengl_height = -1
bool_opengl_linear = true
bool_opengl_32bit = true
bool_opengl_swap = false
bool_opengl_square = false
bool_doublebuffer = true
bool_screen_thread = false
bool_joystick = true

The .emulationstation/es_systems.cfg fragment for mega drive looks like

DESCNAME=Sega Mega Drive / Genesis
NAME=megadrive
PATH=/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/megadrive
EXTENSION=.smd .SMD .md .MD .bin .BIN .zip .ZIP .gz .GZ .bz2 .BZ2
COMMAND=/home/pi/RetroPie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 1 “/home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/dgen-sdl/dgen -f -r /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all/dgenrc %ROM%”
# alternatively: COMMAND=export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=”/home/pi/RetroPie/supplementary/dispmanx/SDL12-kms-dispmanx/build/.libs”; /home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/dgen-sdl/dgen %ROM%
PLATFORMID=18`

Thank you very much for your help. I know we’re pretty keen to get sonic cranked up over here :)

missed the sudo commands..

at the bottom on the /RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg file, you will see input_player1_joypad_index stuff, delete all of that…
then drop into terminal (F4) or ssh and do this..

cd ~/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/tools

sudo ./retroarch-joyconfig -o p1.cfg -p 1 -j 0
( -o for output file, -p for player, -j for joystick id )

then do this

sudo cat p*.cfg >> ~/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

this will setup the controls for the emulators, if you need to do the emulationstation controls, delete the esconfig file in the .emulationstation folder and reboot.

good luck

Yeah, this confused me for a while as well, but here’s what you need to do.
What you need to do is take the output of /home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/tools/retroarch-joyconfig and add it to the end of /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

Just pipe the output of retroarch-joyconfig into a file and append that file to the end of retroarch.cfg

That should do it.

Ok… So once I do the little trick above to get the CD to be the /tools/ folder, I’m able to run this:

./retroarch-joyconfig -0//./RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

And the config runs!

Unfortunately when I go to RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg and check the file, there are no joystick inputs in the file (so the config never took).

Ideas?

[quote=1941]Im trying to do this and i constantly get Directory not found. I can go in open the directory in terminal but when i attempt to ./retroarch-joyconfig -o p1.cfg -p 1 -j 0 it just gives me Base File/Directory not found. Is it possible the keyboard im using is causing this? I have not been able to get a single directory to change and i know they exist. [/quote]

1941… Try this…

In Console, type: pwd… That will tell you what directory you are in.

Then type CD /home/pi/

Type PWD and you should see:

/home/pi/

Then tyoe: ls -F

It’ll get you all of the folders and files in that directory that you can CD to

I was able to get to the cd ~/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/tools/ folder this way but still haven’t figure out how to get joyconfig to run

ffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…………….. This is driving me nuts LOL

So I found another relative thread with similar commands…

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=42521

Here’s the code to run:

cd ~/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/tools/ &&
./retroarch-joyconfig -p 1 -j 1 >> ~/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

So I type that in and I still get:

“-bash: cd ~/home/pi/RetroPie/Configs/All no such file or directory”

I did a search in WinSCP and the retroarch-joyconfig is found at:

/home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/tools

ALMOST THERE!

Also I deleted es_systems.cfg in /home/pi/.emulationstation and reran emulationstation… This allowed me to reset the emulationstation navigation controls so now my PS2 USB controller as well as my keyboard work for navigating around emulationstation (selecting games, exiting, etc).

The keyboard works great in games, the PS USB controller is totally unresposnive.

Alsmost there!