Hi,

Here is a quick video showing how you configure a USB controller with MAME within EmulationStation/RetroPie
As its different to the RetroArch config I thought it may help some people.

I just purchased a Raspberry Pi revB

I Want to play old NES and SNES games (eventually sega and Atari…)

But in regards to old NES and SNES games.
Which controllers should I use.

Should I purchase a USB NES controller. OR wire an original NES controller using the GPIO?

I cannot find on google info regarding using a 3rd party USB NES controller. When I search I find problems with the D-Pad, arrows not working.

But if I wire my original NES controller to the raspberry pi, it will look cluttered with the external GPIO…

I’ve been reading about the NES/SNES controller since evening, its now 2am and I have a headache and am no closer to deciding.

Just got a fight stick, it is the xbox 360/ pc version and it is not just a plug and play fight stick and it connects to the pi via usb.

I have been using emulation station some time now with a usb snes controller adapter(so I can use authentic snes controllers not the crappy usb 3rd party controllers) and they work just fine. I use most of the emulators except mame.

My question as a noob to the forums is, What do I need to install or what inputs do I need to get this fight stick recognized by the pi so I can properly play some arcade titles.

ps. the lights on the fight stick blink when I have it plugged into the pi, similar to the way an xbox or ps3 controller lights blink when they are finding a signal to pair up with the console…

I just got a new B+ unit, I thought it would just plug and play an image from my old B unit. well it boots but theres no power to any of the usb ports….

any fix for this or ???

I am trying to setup a Retrobit USB to Genesis Controller adapter and having no luck. I found that a driver was developed as well as a workaround to the issue that the Pi does not recognize left and up.

https://github.com/robmcmullen/hid-atari-retrobit/blob/master/README.rst

I am unable to compile the driver. The RetroPie image I used doesn’t have the right build modules or kernel headers (or whatever the term is) to make it work. Trying older versions of the give me an incompatible driver.

The other workaround that I found involves recompiling the kernel by editing the hidinput driver. This seems like it would take way too long.

Anyone have any luck with this using RetroPie that could help me out?

first of all apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but I haven’t been able to find an answer anywhere. So I am building a arcade coffee table using a raspberry pi and retropie. i have two usb slots on the side of the table for usb snes controllers and a usb encoder pcb

(see here – http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/No-Delay-USB-Encoder-To-PC-For-Arcade-DIY-Parts-2Pin-Rocker-Happ-Style-Buttons-/201123993135?ssPageName=ADME:L:OU:AU:1120)

connected to the encoder i have 3 arcade buttons that i would like to use to save, load and exit in roms. i have done a jstest and found the button numbers and added the encoder as player 3 in the retroarch config along with a the exit save and load inputs.

The issue is that I can only seem to get two things working at once. I can either have the two snes controllers working as player 1 and player 2 and none of the save exit or load buttons working OR i can have just player 1 working and all 3 of the save load and exit buttons working but no player two.

it seems to change between these two even without me adjusting the code

any help would be appreciated

thanks!

First time installer.

I installed RetroPie 2.3 today. All went well. Got Genesis,SNES, PSX and Atari 2600 games working with a USB gamepad.

While testing the Atari ST emulator I must have messed up and the Pi froze so I unplugged the power.

When the Pi restarted emulationstation is now corrupt.
It still functions. I can use the gamepad to select games and once in the games all works well.
Problem is I have no idea what I’m selecting.
Here is a video I did to show what is happening. The thing in the corner is me showing the gamepad. I was hoping to show me selecting but the contrast to he screen was just to high.

Any tips, advise greatly appreciated.

I know how this is done for USB gamepad but I cannot get it to work using a keyboard. I have a teensy 2.0 set up as a USB keyboard that is set up like a SNES controller so there is not a dedicated escape button.

Right now I have
# input_enable_hotkey_btn = enter
# input_exit_emulator = tab

This is not working any suggestions?

Hello Guys!

Because of the sometimes painfull usage of joyconfig (how do i start it, how do i copy settings into other emulators? and so on)
i wrote a little script if anyone is interested.
It is optimized for EmulationStation 2!

what does it do?
It shows you your usb devices (is the joystick recognized?)
It shows your dev/input (js0, js1 to know where the joystick is).

After that you can choose what platforms you want to create your input (default all).

Next it asks which player you would like to edit.
After that it starts the normal joyconfig script but with correct parameters and copies it into the correct retroarch.cfg.

What you need to do:
1. make copies of retroarch.cfg as retroarch_original.cfg WITHOUT any player input (because the script will refer always to retroarch_original.cfg, copies it into retroarch.cfg and append the joystick-input) in every config folder like all, nes, snes, mame,…
[retroarch.cfg are located in /opt/retropie/configs/*/]

2. make a file called Joystick.sh (or any other name you want) and copy following code into it:

#!/bin/sh
#First Show USB Devices and Inputs inside dev that user knows what pi recognizes.
echo Initialising Joystick Configuration...
echo Showing all USB-Devices:
sudo lsusb
sleep 6
echo " "
echo " "
echo Showing Devices in dev:
sudo ls /dev/input
echo Joysticks should be shown as js0, js1, js2 and so on.
sleep 6s
echo " "
echo " "
echo Remember your shown Devices for further configuration...
sleep 3s
echo Script will start in 5 Seconds...
sleep 5s

#Create Temp Data
#Tempdata for Platform
platformtemp="/home/pi/platformtjs.tmp"
#Make Sure file is empty
>$platformtemp

#Tempdata for Joystick
joysticktemp="/home/pi/joyconfig.tmp"
#Make Sure file is empty
>$joysticktemp

#Tempdata for player
playertemp="/home/pi/playerconfig.tmp"
#Make Sure file is empty
>$playertemp

dialog --backtitle "Joystick-Configuration" \
--title "Joystick-Configuration" \
--msgbox 'Welcome to Joystick-Configuration' 6 60

dialog --backtitle "Joystick-Configuration" \
--title "Joystick-Configuration" \
--yesno 'Would you like to Configure your Joystick?' 6 60
response=$?
case $response in
   0) starting=1;;
   1) dialog --backtitle "Joystick-Configuration" --title "Configuration Finished" --msgbox 'Joystick-Configuration will now end.' 6 60;;
   255) dialog --backtitle "Joystick-Configuration" --title "Configuration Finished" --msgbox 'Joystick-Configuration will now end.' 6 60;;
esac

#While Loop to configure more than one Player.
while [ "$starting" = "1" ]
do
	#---------Platform-Index------------
	dialog --backtitle "Joystick-Configuration: Platform Selection" \
	--radiolist "Select a Platform to configure (Use SPACEBAR to select and ENTER to confirm):" 18 45 9 \
	all "All" on \
	gb "Game Boy" off \
	gbc "Game Boy Advanced" off \
	nes "Nintendo" off \
	snes "Super Nintendo" off \
	mastersystem "Sega Master System" off \
	megadrive "Sega Mega Drive" off \
	mame "M.A.M.E" off \
	psx "Playstation 1" off 2> $platformtemp
	
	#Platform Type
	platform=$(cat $platformtemp)
	dialog --backtitle "Joystick-Configuration for -${platform}- Platforms: Platform Selection" \
	--title "Selected Platform" \
	--msgbox "Platform -${platform}- was selected." 6 60
	
	#---------Joystick-Index------------
	dialog --backtitle "Joystick-Configuration for -${platform}- Platforms: Joystick-Index Selection" \
	--radiolist "Select Joystick-Number (Use SPACEBAR to select and ENTER to confirm):" 18 45 9 \
	0 "Joystick #0" on \
	1 "Joystick #1" off \
	2 "Joystick #2" off \
	3 "Joystick #3" off \
	4 "Joystick #4" off \
	5 "Joystick #5" off \
	6 "Joystick #6" off \
	7 "Joystick #7" off \
	8 "Joystick #8" off 2> $joysticktemp
	
	#Joystick-Index
	joystickindex=$(cat $joysticktemp)
	dialog --backtitle "Joystick-Configuration for -${platform}- Platforms: Joystick-Index Selection" \
	--title "Selected Joystick" \
	--msgbox "Joystick-Index Number ${joystickindex} was selected." 6 60
	
	#--------Player-Index-------------
	dialog --backtitle "Player-Configuration for -${platform}- Platforms: Player-Number Selection" \
	--radiolist "Select Player-Number (Use SPACEBAR to select and ENTER to confirm):" 18 45 9 \
	1 "Player #1" on \
	2 "Player #2" off \
	3 "Player #3" off \
	4 "Player #4" off \
	5 "Player #5" off \
	6 "Player #6" off \
	7 "Player #7" off \
	8 "Player #8" off 2> $playertemp
	
	#Player-Index
	playerindex=$(cat $playertemp)
	dialog --backtitle "Player-Configuration for -${platform}- Platforms: Player-Number Selection" \
	--title "Selected Player" \
	--msgbox "Player-Number ${playerindex} was selected." 6 60
	
	#---------Start Joypad Configuration Script
	dialog --backtitle "Joystick-Configuration for -${platform}- Platforms: Starting Input" \
	--title "Starting Input Configuration" \
	--msgbox "Configuration of Joystick ${joystickindex} for Player ${playerindex} will start on Platform -${platform}- shortly. Before the Configuration starts it is recommended that all Buttons are used now to calibrate them." 8 60
	
	#Start known Joystick Script with correct Parameters.
	sudo /opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/installdir/bin/retroarch-joyconfig -p $playerindex -j $joystickindex > /opt/retropie/configs/${platform}/p${playerindex}.cfg
	#Finished
	dialog --backtitle "Joystick-Configuration for -${platform}- Platforms: Finished Config" \
	--title "Configuration Finished" \
	--msgbox "Configuration of Joystick ${joystickindex} for Player ${playerindex} is finished." 6 60
	
	#Ask if another Player should be configured.
	dialog --backtitle "Joystick-Configuration for -${platform}- Platforms." \
	--title "Joystick-Configuration" \
	--yesno 'Would you like to Configure another Joystick?' 6 60
	response=$?
	case $response in
		0) 	starting=1;;
		1) 	starting=0
			dialog --backtitle "Joystick-Configuration for -${platform}- Platforms." --title "Configuration Finished" --msgbox 'Joystick-Configuration will now end.' 6 60;;
		255) starting=0
			 dialog --backtitle "Joystick-Configuration for -${platform}- Platforms." --title "Configuration Finished" --msgbox 'Joystick-Configuration will now end.' 6 60;;
	esac
	
#Remove all Temp Files
rm $platformtemp
rm $joysticktemp
rm $playertemp
done #Ende der While Schleife

#After Configuration is finished all files have to be copied into retroarch.cfg
sudo cp -f /opt/retropie/configs/${platform}/retroarch_original.cfg /opt/retropie/configs/${platform}/retroarch.cfg
sudo cat /opt/retropie/configs/${platform}/p*.cfg >> /opt/retropie/configs/${platform}/retroarch.cfg

Save it and start your script!

If you played around with the RaspberryPi like me and you have an Section called Applications at EmulationStation you can run this script directly from ES like i do.

Hope it helps somebody ^^

greetings Naurandir

Hi, Just set up a brand new retropi on the b+, ran through all of the set-up, and had a normal PS3 controller wired into the usb port, went through set up with it, and it worked. Followed up with a restart, and now it does not respond at all. Not sure if I am missing something or what here. Any help is appreciated.

Applicable warning – I am completely new to all of this, just got my first set up today.

How do I change the keyboard settings? I know for a USB controller you go to RetroPie setup and run Configure RetroArch Controller to change how that works in game but how do you do that for a keyboard? The keyboard works fine in the menu but not in games.