Hi,
Apologies for being a total novice and if this is covered somewhere already again apologies.

I have been playing with Retropie for a week or so and was struggling to get the PS3 controller working wirelessly with my Bluetooth dongle.
Last night I downloaded 3.4 and installed the image from scratch. Connected to the Wifi with my WiFi dongle ok, connected the Playstation 3 controlled via USB cable and setup the controller using the USB cable.
I then exited retropie and ran the retropie_setup.sh script and then attempted the install pair Playstation 3 controller – The script installed at the end it stated connect via USB cable and press PS on the controller to complete setup. (I can’t remember the full screen that appeared apologies not helpful I know)
Sadly the PS3 controller still doesn’t work wirelessly.

Any ideas? I have a broadcom USB showing when I perform a lsusb command.
Have I missed something
Any help really appreciated
Chris

Hi,

I have just installed 3.4 from scratch and inserted my usb stick with all my roms on. Nothing happened. I usually see the light on my usb stick flickering for ages.

Is the usb rom service working in this version?

I when into configuration and enabled it, rebooted, still no luck.

Has the folder structure changed?

Regards

I had a ps3 clone working flawless via bluetooh on 2.6 but I was unable to make it work on 3.3. I saw the changelog on 3.4 and had some hopes about it but it doesnt work either.
The controller works fine on usb, but I simply cant do the pairing. The bluetooth device works fine(at least in 2.6).
I cant get the controller scanned with hcitool scan(but it happens too with 2.6 and the controller works fine).

Sixpair results:

Current Bluetooth master: 00:15:83:07:ca:04
Setting master bd_addr to 00:15:83:07:ca:04

———>Notice that its the same MAC for this two lines…¿?¿?¿

sixad output:

pi@retropie:/dev/input $ sudo sixad –start
[ ok ] Starting bluetooth (via systemctl): bluetooth.service.
sixad-bin[1471]: started
sixad-bin[1471]: sixad started, press the PS button now

and thats it, it stays like that, my controller 4 lights flashes a little time and then go off….

I would stick to 2.6, but I was able to use nearly all my mame roms in 3.4 after a long time and damn, I want all things to work fine at least one time!!!!!!

Hello friends,

Need some help here. I just installed retropie on Raspberry Pi 2. I connected a PS4 controller via USB and it works on the emulation menu but it doesn’t work inside the game….the only button on the controller which works is the square button which takes you back a screen. I tried googling the issue and on the forum here but no luck. Can anyone assist?

So I picked up the powerblock to use to control power on my pi, and after not really liking the SNES to USB interface, I decided to use try the GPIO route. I followed this plan (https://www.petrockblock.com/2012/07/19/connecting-snes-sockets-to-the-raspberry-pi-an-assembly-guide/) to connect my snes adapters to pins but I’m not having any luck (nothing is detected)… The only pins I switched was 3.3v and gnd from the guide (because the power block is on pins 1 and 6), so I’m using pins 17 (3.3v), 22 (Data2), 20 (gnd), 15 (Data1), 16 (latch), and 18 (clock). I installed the SNESDev package from the retropie setup script, but it doesn’t seem to be working. I get absolutely nothing. The part I’m not sure about is what GPIO pins the script is looking for, and I’m afraid it wants to only look on the 1,5,6,7,19,23 config that the gamecon driver wants to use. I’ve searched for quite some time to see if I can figure out how to change or check the GPIO pins, but I don’t find that anywhere. Another issue I think I see is that the SNESDev service is not running (services –status-all shows it with a ‘-‘ which I understand to be installed but not running) and if I try to service start it, it reboots my pi (oops)… Am I missing something? I’ve searched the forums to no avail, most talk about using the GPIO adapter that is sold here, but I already have the powerblock, so couldn’t use that if I wanted to…

Hi guys.

I followed HerbFargus guide on GitHum to automatically configure my wireless XBOX 360 controllers. All 4 controllers work great everywhere (emulationstation + all other emulatores) but reicast (dreamcast) emulator. I plugged in a logitech usb controller and that worked fine in Reicast. However, Reicast doesn’t seem to recognize the XBOX controllers. Do I have to do something special for Reicast for my XBOX controllers to work.

Pi Model: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
Retropie version: 3.3

Thanks for the help.

I’m still learning alot about linux and retropie so bear with me…

Having a problem with my PS3 controller not connecting over a bluetooth connection while in the emulator, specifically SNES. Yes, ive installed BT drivers and setup the PS3 controller using the tutorials here.

After installing the bluetooth drivers, i’m able to control emulation station using the PS3 controller via bluetooth, but when I want to play an SNES rom, i notice some yellow text on the bottom left hand corner after the game is loaded saying my controller isn’t configured. If the PS3 controller is plugged in via usb on the PI, the SNES emulator picks up on it, i get the yellow text on the bottom left hand corner saying its configured to a port, and im able to use controller.

Any ideas on what I need to do to get the BT to work in an emulator? Hope this is an easy one to fix.

I just installed rp 3.3.1-rpi2 on a RP2B+. I connected 2 identical iBuffalo USB SNES joypads and configured the first through the emulation station startup configuration menu.

Both controllers work for the NES emulator. All buttons and the D-pad for the first joypad work – including hot keys – and control player 1. All buttons and the D-pad for the second joypad work – *excluding* hotkeys – and control player 2.

The problem is mame4all. I’ve configured the controllers through the mame UI. The mame UI correctly identifies the controller and input in that when I press a button on the second joy pad the mame UI reads and correctly assigns the button as J2 Button 0+,0-,7, or whatever. But the player 2 controller doesn’t work correctly. Mame correctly identifies and executes as assigned the input from the [select] and [start] buttons of the second joypad, but it doesn’t use the D-pad or other buttons to control player 2. The D-pad and buttons from joypad 1 control the second player.

I’ve tried hard coding the input through retroarch.cfg. I get the same behavior. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Hi,

I received anothe Raspberry Pi 2 for Christmas and decided to make it a NES only emulator. I have a dead NES I will eventually put ut in.

I installed the latest version of retropie and have things up and running with a usb keyboard. I then installed gamecon_gpio_rpi through the setup menu and let it set itself up for SNES.

I then wired a NES controller up to the GPIO.

Back in emulation station it told me that it detected two gamepads. I held a button on the NES controller and went through all the button mapping. It then worked great for getting around in emulation station.

I then launched an NES game and the controller didnt do anything. Keyboard still works. If I exit the game the controller works again.

Trying again I noticed that it says that SNES controllers are configured on ports 0 and 1 in the bottom left when the game starts. Thinking that this is the 0 and 1 that the raspberry pi 2 doesnt use in the read me I tried remapping as per the readme, but that didnt change anything.

Any advice?

Thanks,
Kberr

Hi,

Firstly, I’d like to say thanks to everyone involved in RetroPie and the community, it’s awesome and works so easily.

I have recently put together a cabinet for my son with his Christmas money as he wants to play his sister on Street Fighter 2 after a recent visit to a Computer Museum.

We have the following setup….

Pi b
2 x Zippy joysticks
15 illuminated buttons
Xin-mo encoder

We first had some issues getting system to recognise 2 controllers, but we did the fix for that we found on here (adding usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040 in the /boot/cmdline.txt).

We now have a working system, and for most Mame games it seems to be fine. But it is impossible to perform any special moves on Street Fighter 2. We’re testing with Ken, and we know there’s a simple special move of DOWN, FORWARD, PUNCH which will send a fireball. We can do this on the keyboard consistently, so we know it’s possible and move is correct. This is one example, there’s other moves that I also now that just don’t seem to be possible with this setup.

I’m a bit lost at what to try now, does anyone have any idea what the cause may be? i.e. encoder, joysticks? Or any idea how we can fix it.

Many thanks in advance – my boy will be extremely grateful if we can get it going :)

Cheers