Amiga games don’t show up – you have to load them from the emulator (A launch script should be showing).

If mac / scummvm are not showing, you likely are missing the rom folder with the launch scripts – probably when you moved everything to usb.

However you did not detail how you switch to usb – did you mount it over ~/RetroPie or did you adjust ES configs ?

I have the same problem with 2 USB joystick and button configs I made. Would love the universal fix as well.

Sorry for the haphazard reply but I’m at work so I am pretty much going to copy and paste something I wrote for a friend last night, most of my formatting gets cut out when I paste it here though. I hope this helps:

General info
Pi Model: RasPi 2
RetroPie Version Used: 3.0
Built From: SD Image
USB Devices connected: DragonRise inc. SNES style USB gamepad. Basic USB HID keyboard.

How to manually configure controllers in RetroPie 3.0
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So I was running into a problem where the auto config was not saving the config files when I ran it on certain controllers on RetroPie 3.0. I needed to find a way to manually configure my controllers and save/manage the files in case I wanted to switch controllers at different points. I’ve listed some useful locations below:
-This is the cfg file that emulationstation uses for the main UI. Delete this file if you want to setup a new control scheme for emulationstation when you restart. (NOTE this wont do anything for game controls)
/home/pi/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg
-This is where the .cfg that the RetroArch snes emulator uses in game.
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
-This is where new configs are generated by the Configure RetroArch RGUI
/opt/retropie/configs/all/RetroArch-####-######.cfg
-This is where the retropie setup script is located (just in case you dont already know)
~/RetroPie-Setup/restropie_setup.sh

NOTE: any step that starts with $ is what you should type at the command prompt but omit any text with a # before it. The # is letting you know that the text following it is just a note for your information and is not meant to be input into the rasberry pi.

Also, anytime you run a command with sudo in front of it you may be required to input your password, I didn’t put this in the directions so just keep an eye out for that.

1. press F4 from emulation station
2. $ cd RetroPie-Setup # Change directory to the retropie setup dir so you can run the setup script.
3. $ sudo ./retropie_setup.sh #run the setup scripts.
4. select option 3 “Setup / Configuration”
5. select option 316 (this is probably subject to change) “retropie configuration menu for emulationstation”
6. press esc key until you are back in command line then type emulationstation and hit enter.
7. You should now have a new menu tab called retropie, select that
8. select “configure RetroArch / Launch RetroArch RGUI
9. when browsing this with your Keyboard ‘z’ should be back and ‘x’ should be use/enter/confirm/ok
10. go down to “settings” and press x
11. go to “input user 1 binds”and press x
12. Make sure your keypad is plugged in and highlight each option in this screen, press ‘x’ on your keyboard the press the button on your gamepad that corresponds to the option you highlighted.
13. once you are done setting all of your buttons press ‘z’ twice to go back to the main screen.
14. Have a pencil and paper ready for this next part. Highlight the “Save New Config” option and press ‘x’
15. write down the file name that was saved. It should look something like “opt/retropie/configs/all/RetroArch-0923-030622″ (Basically what you just wrote gets saved as a backup file and you must go to /opt/retropie/configs/all/ and manually rename your file to retroarch.cfg)
16. Now select “Quit RetroArch” and press ‘x’
17. You should be kicked back into EmulationStation, so press ‘F4’ to go back to terminal.
18. $ cd /opt/retropie/configs/all/ #this is the dir where your .cfg file and any new .cfg’ are located
19. $ ls -l #this should populate an easy to read list of the config files you need to work with
20. $ sudo mv retroarch.cfg retroarch.cfg.backup #save your old .cfg file just in case you want to swap back
21. Locate the file you made in step 14-15, it should look like RetroArch-0923-030622. If you dont know which file it was or couldn’t write it down, the naming convention seems to be “RetroArch-[DATE]-[TIMESTAMP]. You will use this in the next step.
22. $ sudo cp RetroArch-NNNN-NNNNNN.cfg retroarch.cfg #replace the NNNN-NNNNNN with the actual numbers of the file you created. This will copy your new .cfg file into the space that RetroArch uses for playing games.
23. $ ls -l #make sure you see a retroarch.cfg file.
24. $ sudo reboot

Load up some games and have fun!
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Cheers,

~L

@andrewvalentine

I was in your position not long ago! I’ve learned a lot since then!

Assuming you’re running the most recent version of RetroPie! Follow this post to sort out the XinMo:

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No need to patch the kernel, simply go through the terminal and run “sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt” to add the “usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040” entry or take your SD card and plug it into a PC which will give you access to the cmdline text file.

Good luck!

@atimmins Yes, there does seem to be an issue with the shoulder buttons on that model – I think it may relate to the firmware on the controller. Perhaps an update will come out to resolve that. In the meantime you could remap the hotkey to something else.

To set a controller as P1, try plugging it into the top left usb port, and p2 into the bottom left port. (p3 is top right and p4 is bottom right).

I have the SNES30 controller which works fine in emulationstation and in games, but I can’t seem to get the hotkeys to work for saving and loading save states. The controller config file at opt/retropie/configs/all has the following lines but they don’t seem to work;

input_save_state_btn = “18”
input_save_state_btn = “17”

I know hotkeys have been enabled because it works to push select + start to exit the emulator. All the hotkeys for my original SNES controllers plugged in to a usb adapter still work fine.

Is there some reason that I can’t use the shoulder buttons on the SNES30 controller for hotkeys? I saw a post on some other forum where someone said he could never get the shoulder buttons to work either, so he had to re-map the hotkeys to something else.

Also, if my usb controller is plugged in and I used the 8bitdo controller, it will select the game from emulationstation, but I lose control once in the game. I’m guessing that it assumes the usb controller is player 1. Is there a way to make the 8bitdo controller have priority for player 1?

Yes otherwise it may not have enough power to run. Unless of course you invest in a powered USB hub. Typically you’ll know you aren’t getting enough power when either peripheral devices don’t work or a rainbow square shows up in the top right corner of the screen.

1. depends on how many files / games you want to put on it
2. yes
3. which standard 1a psu ? The one on their website is 2a – http://swag.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-universal-power-supply you will need a 2a PSU for reliable working / and to use USB peripherals

did you do the other things i mentioned – removing usbmount ?

It’s easier to understand if you don’t abbreviate words like “you”. I’m too old to appreciate/understand txtspk.. :)

Change the last 2 to a 3 in fstab in the line starting with UUID=45885bbb-3164-4d6d-9a0e-809b428475c2 (or change it to a 0 to skip the filesysten check).

“man fstab” to learn more about these numbers.

And also make sure the usbmount daemon is not enabled as mentioned earlier (apt-get remove it)

fstab is not complete – you should have more than 1 line in /etc/fstab

not sure what the rest of your message means but I’m saying to make sure the usbmount daemon is not running.

Are you using google translate ? :) y = you ?

also make sure you have the “USB ROM service” disabled. (can be done from retropie-setup). you might want to sudo apt-get remove usbmount also.

You are going to need some sort of interface to go between the controller and your Pie. You will need to connect your buttons either to a device like a “teensy” controller that can map the button presses as a HID (human interface device) or use them so they can connect to the GPIO pins on the pie. In this case it will be a long drawn out process. I think that if you are looking to keep the integrity of the controller together, then using the USB adapter is the way to go.

Shame no one replied to this….So I’ll tell you what i did with my ps1 controller very very similar to the one you’re using. I spent ages looking into how to wire it in,out and shake it all about….Then i gave up and bought a £1:99 adaptor from eBay that was plug and play ps1 to usb. Worked so nicely i bought another adaptor exactly the same and another joystick to match the one i had. Job done. I know you didn’t want to spend money but £1:99 is next to nothing and it was free postage(it arrived the very next day too, which i was amazed at)

Here is a link so you can see what i bought.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151043784323?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

You may not live in the UK but im sure where ever you are it’s got to be cheaper as the UK tend to charge a fortune for everything.