Hi guys

I just made this profile in order to become a part of the RetroPie community. Though I ran into some issues and I hoped you could help me out here.

First of all…
Everything went fine with my latest install (2.4.2), I followed Floob’s installation videos on youtube and everything seemed to be going just fine. I got my USB controller to function and everything. My first problem though was when I tried to configure my 2nd USB controller (same kind as the first). After installing my 2nd controller, they both all of a sudden semmed to stop working in the ported games versions. I am using 2 Retrolink SNES USB controllers.

– Any ideas?

My second problem…
Even though I place MAME rom’s into the MAME folder, the “folder” is nowhere to by found in EmulationStation.

– Any ideas? Else I have to start all over… Again :-(

Cheers
Kod

So I’ve been trying everything to try and get my iBuffalo USB SNES controller to work with final burn.

I have my roms in the Neo-geo rom folder.
Most of them boot well enough but none of the controls respond.

I’ve set up fba2x.cfg With the following:
[Joystick]
# Get codes from “jstest /dev/input/js0”
# from package “joystick”
A_1=0
B_1=1
X_1=2
Y_1=3
L_1=4
R_1=5
START_1=7
SELECT_1=6
#Joystick axis
JA_LR=0
JA_UD=1
#player 2 button configuration
A_2=0
B_2=1
X_2=2
Y_2=3
L_2=4
R_2=6
START_2=9
SELECT_2=8
#Joystick axis
JA_LR_2=0
JA_UD_2=1

QUIT=999
ACCEL=999
QLOAD=10
QSAVE=11

Is there anything else I should be doing/installing?
Do I need a certain set of Roms?

I’ve got a happ control trackball plugged into the B+ pi via usb and in X, it acts great as a mouse. The left/middle/right buttons all work great and moving the ball moves the mouse as expected. However, in games like centipede that require the trackball, the movement does not register. Am I missing something in the configs to enable mouse support in mame4all? I’m using emulationstation as my front end, and am using the latest retropie SD card image. Any help would be much appreciated. This is driving me a little crazy.

BTW…I’m using the first mame4all command in the emulationstation config file, not the one related to RetroArch although I did try that one on a whim and still don’t have trackball support.

Thanks!

Hi Everyone,
I have done extensive searches on here and the internet, and have not been able to find a solution that works for me. I am using an IPAC2 usb controller to make arcade controls for my Raspberry Pi, and using RetroPie as my front end. I have tried changing many configuration files as others have suggested (RetroArch.cfg), and for some reason cannot get the IPAC2 to control anything within emulation station. The keyboard works fine. I have even re-installed Retro-Pie from scratch with no results. The IPAC2 works on the command line, and within the Raspberry Pi OS. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as it is getting increasingly frustrating. Thanks

Hi,
I have three gamepads that work really well in emulators when I use them one at a time (only one is plugged).
But when I try to use two at once (for playing two-player games), only the first one (I guess in order of USB slots) works. And the one that works partially controls the second playr too : when I press left, down or if I press A, then both players in game are controlled. This does not occur if I press right for example… And the second gamepad is just useless and doesn’t respond at all.
If I swap the gamepads in the USB slots, then the same problem occurs, but now it is the other gamepad that works.
And the same problem is caused for any combination of gamepads (Logitech Rumblepad, Generic SNES USB gamepad, DragonRise). One by one they work well.

There was a time when it worked, I don’t know what I have done to make it like this, any idea ?
I copied each gamepad .cfg file in these directories, because I didn’t know which would be taken into account :
/opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/configs/
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/supplementary/RetroArchConfigs

I uploaded my gamepad and various retroarch.cfg settings.

Weird thing is that I seem to have too many retroarch.cfg files.
The ones in each system are almost empty (just shader stuff), but then I have three with lots of settings ;
/opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/retroarch.cfg
/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/retroarch.cfg
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
In Which order are they read ? Should I delete any of them ?
The gamepad config I see in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg looks fishy to me…

Thanks in advance.

I have followed multiple tutorials step by step on Youtube and other blogs. I have got the SNES games on the console and I have configured the controller for Emulation Station

BUT………….

When I configure the controller for retroarch and go through the pushing of the buttons that the screen tells me to push…. Then I wait while it loads the rest of the buttons I don’t have on my controller. During the time frame of 2:25-3:25 on this video tutorial

The next step is seeing them saved in

cd /opt
ls
cd retropie/
ls
cd emulators
cd RetroArch/
ls
cd configs
ls -lah
Sudo nano USBGamepad.cfg

At the 4:54 mark “floob” sees all his buttons mapped out.. THIS IS THE PROBLEM I’M HAVING….. no matter how many times I follow step by step my button presses are never mapped out.

I really need help on this, I promised my wife if I bought the Raspberry pie It would allow her to play old SNES games she loves. 3 weeks later I’m still in the doghouse.

I’m replacing a very old windows netbook running mame .146 with the raspberry pi b+ RetroPie sdcard install and I’m running into an issue with the controls. jtest sees the joysticks and the buttons just fine, but neither mame nor emulationstation can see the joysticks (the buttons work fine). When I use tab to get into the config menu inside mame4all, I can’t map the joysticks to any of the controls. Is the GP-Wiz not supported, or am I missing something very silly? I’ve spent hours on this now and have exhausted all the google tricks and tips I can find. Since jtest seems to work ok, I’m chalking this up to a mame4all issue. I would really appreciate any help anyone can offer to get this working. I’ve spent days replacing a perfectly good (if old and slow) and working system with the RPi just for a fun project, but it’s turning into a nightmare at this point ;)

I should point out that I am using the GP-Wiz40 because I’ve made a mame cabinet with happ controls and am using the gpwiz to map the arcade joysticks into usb joysticks/buttons. I can’t be the only one doing this, can I?

Thanks all!

hello all,

I try to configure my joystick (http://fr.aliexpress.com/item/Xin-Mo-Arcade-to-USB-controller-2-player-MAME-Multicade-Keyboard-Encoder-USB-to-Jamma-game/1375035840.html?recommendVersion=1)

so i have always the message couldn’t open joystick 0

I try with number 1,2 ,etc same result

so when I make this : cat /proc/bus/input/devices

I have this result :

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0314 Product=0126 Version=0110
N: Name="Arcade Controller JUYA0 Dual Arcade"
P: Phys=usb-bcm2708_usb-1.3/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event0
B: PROP=0
B: EV=1b
B: KEY=fff ffff0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=f00ff
B: MSC=10

I think retropie deteck my joystick as a mouse , could you help me pls

THXXX :)

Hi,

I followed the video of how to setup USB controllers in Mame4All, but no button presses register. The keyboard works just fine. Any ideas? They work fine in RetroArch.

Also, where is the location of the Mame4All controller config in 2.3? I accidentally set UI Cancel to <TAB>, so I can’t exactly bring it up.

Odd. I found and renamed the old .cfg file, when it loaded again, I could use the USB controller. Hmmmm. Must have been something set incorrectly in the old file.

Thanks!