Hi there,

I’m having serious issues when configuring a second joystick for Snes and using my BUFFALO joysticks

I have, in total, 3 pairs of different joysticks

2 original N64 joysticks connected throught a Mayflash N64 to USB adapter
2 iBuffalo Snes joystick
2 BUFFALO BSGP1601

Pi Model: 2 b+
RetroPie Version Used: 3.3 (Fresh installed)
Built From: SD Image
USB Devices connected:
Aside from the aforementioned joysticks, I have a keyboard, a mouse and a WiFi adapter. Everything is connected throught an active USB hub

When using the Snes/NES emulator, I can configure only snes joystick without any issues. However, when I try to configure the other one, the emulator won’t detect I’m pressing any buttom. I tried changing the joystick but only detects one kind of joystick at a time (I’d have to use a Snes controller for player 1 and a N64 for Player 2)

The funny part is I get the “not configured” yellow message for Snes controllers and the N64 controllers when the Snes emulator starts (it doesn’t matter which one). But for the BUFFALO ones, I get the “Connected in port #4 and #5” and yet, it won’t let me choose them within the settings.

I’ve also tried mapping the snes.cfg manually and I ended up controlling both players (1 and 2) with my player 1 joystick eventhough I set the input_device_p2 and input_player2_joypad_index to the result from the jstest command.

So, long story short

1) How can I configure a second matching joystick?
2) Why I can’t use my BUFFALO controllers and how would I fix it?

If you were kind enough to read this, let me thank you for your time.

Thanks
Janus

I would really appreciate any assistance, and I’m happy to provide as much information as needed,but please be specific on how I can assist, since I am completely over my head.

I followed the GitHub and Floobs youtube video to enable my Xbox 360 controller, but I haven’t been able to complete the project.

In a nutshell, my controller works to control EmulationStation, but poops the bed as soon as I open any ROM. I understand there is a configuration file for EmuStation versus individual ROMS, but a hefty amount of the information I’ve found seems to be out of date, so I’m not sure where I grab the working configuration info, and exactly where to out it.

The controller is installed, and jstest runs successfully, I’ve made a note of my button configuration (pressed Y and noted that 7=on).
Emulation Station is working with the Controller
When I launch any ROM, I get a notification that Xbox Controller 1234/56767 is not configured.

From what I’ve gathered, retroarch-joyconfig is no longer a thing, and that seems to be where I’m stuck.

I can view my /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg file, but the buttons listed there don’t match up with my jstest notes.

Thanks already for any help!

At long last, finally got back to building my case. I have been preoccupied with having a PC at my disposal, so that distracted me a good bit. The colors are Rubbed Bronze, which isn’t quite a black, with bronze metal flakes (Rustoleum collection) with Sea Green (Krylon collection), with some foil tape just because.

Inside, I have a powered Belkin USB hub (thanks Amazon for having it really cheap), extensions for HDMI, power to the hub, power to the Pi, ethernet which is put where the expansion bay was, and dual USB panel mount extensions (still waiting on the last one to come in). I also have a 5mm RGB LED set up from the Mausberry circuit currently running no resistors for a blinding teal lighting when it is on. I also used a good bit of polystyrene (the kinda stuff they use for model kits) to make my various panels and mounts.

What I started with

The guts (just imagine another dual USB extension in there…)

And next to another SNES

Essentially my case is almost done, with the exception of a dual USB extension from China and any other odds and ends I decide to add to it, but, I want a more authentic feeling experience when playing these older games, more in particular for the SNES and PSX experience…since N64 is mostly iffy to play. I have looked at both options as far as the SNES goes and have seen plenty of bad reviews that say either some buttons don’t work for USB controls, won’t pick up some buttons for adapters, and the plain just won’t work for anything outside of PC, I have yet to look into analog PSX/2 control options. I know I could easily just stick with my PS3 control for PSX, but having the connector at the other end and not abusing that control would be nicer.

Essentially, I would like to know what USB setups you all have used that have either worked with little to no added pain to get to work properly. I am also using a powered hub in my case to alleviate the strain of 4 ports on the Pi and power consumption.

Hi everyone,

I have some trouble configuring my PS DualShock 3 in Retropie. I managed to correctly pair, connect and configure my controller on my PI 2 (OSMC/Retropie) but as soon as a PSX game is launched, the emulator seams to take the gyroscope information as a joystick input (and one knows that Medievil couldn’t be played that way ;) )

Any way to disable gyro in sixad ?
Thx !

Hey folks, I’m not too experienced with Linux or RetroPie.

I had a version of RetroPie up and running and working pretty well. You can see my PiTendo build in an original NES case on the “people’s projects” section. I had gotten the N64 emulator going and playing some Conker’s Bad Fur Day with a PS3 controller and life was good. That was on version 3.0 beta 3. Then I decide to do some updates (apt-get upgrade -y git and then apt-get install -y git dialog) and it hosed me up somehow and then nothing would work. I don’t think I’ll do that again :-)

Well, I was trying to get everything perfect so I could image that set-up and make several others to give to some of my buds for xmas… so I’m bummed. Me and the boys used to play multi-player on Conker’s all the time so I really wanted to get the N64 emulator working before presenting them, if I can.

So, today I’ve been trying to do a completely fresh build up using the 3.2.1 image. I thought it would be better to get a stable version. Things are going pretty well mostly. I’ve got my controllers working and NES/SEGA is running fine. When I try to run N64 now though, I get an error.

Sorry, I’m being long winded.

I’m using a Raspberry Pi 2 B
3.2.1 image
build from binary
using iBuffalo SNES style controller and Playstation 3 dual shock connected VIA wire
A basic generic USB keyboard
Guides and instructions mostly from Google and YouTube (a lot of stuff from floob who I’m not surprised to see is a frequent poster here).
Very little done at this point other than getting the controllers set up and adding some roms.

When attempting to run an N64 game I get a few lines of text telling me where errors are logged then it dumps be back to EmulationStation. In the log it tells me:
/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 704: 2492 Segmentation fault /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/$

I have attempted to solve the problem by using the setup script to re-install the mupen64 and libreto mupen64 emulators VIA binary but that didn’t seem to do much.

Again, I’m a bit of a newb to linux but I’m actually a technical lead by profession so not a total idiot (just mostly LOL). I have started doing this stuff to try to get beyond the basics in Linux.

Here’s what happens if I try to start ANY n64 ROM (all of which worked for me in the beta version I was using earlier).

Press a key (or joypad button 0) to configure launch options for emulator/port (lr-mupen64plus). errors will be logged to [blah]
plugin_start_gfx_success
GfxRomOpen.
Init new dynarec
===========================================================

Then it dumps me back to EmulationStation.

Thanks for any help!

Hello

I’ve run Retropie from V2 through V3 now. I’m running into an issue with a Logitech Dual Action gamepad when mapping controls via the RGUI menu in each emulator.

My controller seems to auto-map correctly, but the NES emulator and SNES emulator map buttons to the wrong location on the gamepad. This seems to be by default. So I’ve been trying to manually map buttons for each emulator, saving a config file specific to each emulator once the buttons are accurately mapped.

The main issue I’m running into is when binding buttons for my gamepad and saving the configuration, after exiting the emulator and re-opening the emulator, the saved config file with specifically assigned buttons and a RGUI menu toggle button (choosing L3 + R3 via the menu) does not work. It works fine while I’m still in the emulator after configuring everything (without exiting the emulator), but after exiting the emulator it loads the retroarch.cfg general settings rather than the emulator specific config files I set and saved the last time the emulator was open. The problem is I can’t get to the RGUI input menu via a hotkey (L3+R3), I have to use a keyboard.

I want to save it in a way that automatically loads the config each time the emulator runs. Otherwise I’ll have to use a keyboard to get to the menu to reconfigure the button mappings each time the emulator is loaded.

Any advice? Thank you

Hello there!

I have an annoying issue. While playing games, my controller, a Logitech Dual Action, which hasn’t made any troubles to me before, disconnects during gameplay. A yellow text appears on the screen (don’t know what it says exactly), and I can’t do anything with my controller.

Is this a software issue or a hardware issue?

Thanks in advance!

Hi all. I’ve bought a second pi2 to make a portable console as my main one is in my arcade machine. To save time and effort I’m using a copy of the arcade sd in the new one.

My issue is that button 8 on my arcade stick is exit but that’s l2 on my dual shock. This makes it easy to accidentally press and rules out pax games. I’ve gone into the .cfg and deleted the line for exit unfortunately this hasn’t worked. I’ve looked in both the retroarch and pad specific .cfg and I can’t see what I’m missing.

Is there anything else I need to look for or failing that is there a way of resetting my .cfg files?

I’m assuming the setting is somewhere in a global file as I assume l2 isn’t exit by default.

Thanks all.

EDIT: I’m on mobile at the moment. When I get home later I’ll try to get my cfg files uploaded.

Hello, I connected my Dualshock 4 via Bluetooth. Some emulators (for example uae4all) works with analog directions only. Its very sensitive.

1st THANK YOU…every problem I have had (we ) have solved, whether hot keys to exit emulations, getting VICE and Amiga working, wireless PSX dual shock pairing or re imaging you lot have been proper helpful..

I have 1 (last?) question still, having re-imaged/set up on a larger SD card I find all my Scraper data gone – no issue I will re scrape…yet on every game it finds nothing (previously I had to change the ROM name to get rid of the mess ie *.bin etc) but it finds nothing.

I installed SSleph no problem and the Mame look OK (thumbs of the game ) rather than the Arcade machine/Logo I previously had but wonder why the original Scrape no longer yields any results.

If anyone can help I am again grateful.

RetroPie Img: 3+
Rasp Pi: 2 B

Cheers

Given the fact front ends are designed to be aesthetically pleasing and simplify access to multiple emulated games and systems, it would be nice to have the option to hide parent/children roms in Emulation Station menus. In situations whereby multiple roms are required (parents, children, BIOS roms, etc), all of the roms are currently listed individually in the EmulationStation menu. This is confusing to “casual” users who aren’t familiar with manipulating rom sets, configuring emulators, etc. I would imagine many of us are trying to set up “clean” systems that can be used by novices. Simple is better.

There are workarounds, but if EmulationStation provided an option to hide files, life would be much simpler. I assume it wouldn’t be too difficult to add this option.

Of course, there are times when its completely legitimate to display all the parent/children files (for example, situations whereby multiple children roms allow a game to be played in various foreign languages) – so this would need to remain configurable by the user – versus an “automatic” function.

Keeping my fingers crossed.

Jim