ok, then we know we just need sudo apt-get install pi-bluetooth.
problem for me is still that i either have to connect the usb cable to the controller or do sudo sixad –start. even as its ready started.
then the controller works.
hope anyone has some ideas how to fix this
/mallorz
Hi all!
Got a Pi3 and freshly flashed 3.6 and it boots fine, gets up to the controller config screen, recognizes my usb connected Sony PS3 controller and from there on it doesn’t work.
It seems it aknowledges the X button but the dpad and analog don’t seem to give any reaction. Up to and including 3.5 it would boot up and be configured very easily.
Any tips?
EDIT: forgot to add I tried 2 different controllers.
AnonymousInactive
I am really curious how the link helped you fix the delay. I have the USB card as default (achieved in another way, by disabling the broadcom module in /boot/config.txt), yet I still have a 5 second delay in AdvMame.
I’ve just started my venture into Raspberry Pi emulation, and I’m running into some trouble. I bought a USB adapter to use my original SNES controllers, and they work fine when using EmulationStation, but once I load a ROM, I can’t get anything to register. No button presses work at all, but the keyboard does. This is the USB adapter I’m using: http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B002IXZ5DE?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00. Several people in the reviews talk about how well it works with RetroPie, which is why I chose it. I even tried using a logitech controller, and got the same issue. It worked great in the EmulationStation menu, but not outside of it. One thing I noticed is that some of the guides show a countdown in the EmulationStation GUI when skipping a specific button while programming a controller (see attached image). My version doesn’t have that, even though it was a fresh install from this site today. Is that part of my problem? I know EmulationStation didn’t previously change the RetroPie config, but does now. Here are some specifics:
Pi Model: B+
RetroPie Version Used: 3.6
Built From: SD Image
USB Devices connected: Keyboard, SNES controller adapter
Controller used: original SNES controllers
Guide used: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/First-Installation
I’ve looked through the wiki and haven’t found a solution to the problem.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
AnonymousInactive
You wouldn’t think there’d be an issue.. very strange. I don’t know if adding this to config.txt would help?
max_usb_current=1
http://elinux.org/RPiconfig#USB_Power
Thanks,
The second line on it’s own did the trick for me:
sudo apt-get install pi-bluetooth
I was unable to configure the PS3 controller whilst using the USB connector, actually still can’t get right-thumb to register but at least the rest of it is working.
No problems on re-boots and having it connect via bluetooth, don’t need to reconnect USB cable. Atari 800 joystick working fine alongside it as well.
Aaron
Hello, I tried to run it without atari800 ROMs and it works fine. So it looks like no colecovision problem.
To sitoOO – I tried without any USB plugged in and it also froze.
Hello, first I want to thank you all for this project.
Iv’e been following the retropie forums for a while now, and i have found almost every answer to my problems. Almost all but this one>
Im using Retropie Image 3.0 on a Model 2b Rpi. I have a JUYA0 DUAL Arcade Joysticks connected through usb, with 6 buttons. I used ‘usbquirks’ on the ‘cmdline’ to make it work (similar to the Xin mo Controller).
I bough another illuminated button To add a dedicated “exit” button to my build. I connected the button’s microswitch to the controller board and it works fine.
The Problem comes when i try to power the 12v bulb that’s inside the illuminated button. I connected the 5v pin and Grnd pin from the RPI to the bulbs contacts for power supply, it works, the button illuminates when i power the RPI. The problem is that retropie won’t boot up, it keeps resetting and trying to boot up again, on an endless loop. It has something to do with the power im giving the bulb, because as soon as I stop giving it power, the boot completes the process and Retropie starts normally.
I tried giving it power through a USB cable, disarming the cable and using the power wires (red and Black), it didn’t work, no light in the bulb. But strangely, the same boot problem occurs, looping all the time, but without the bulb turned on.
Do I Have to write some code for this button to be illuminated all the time?
Is it a power supply problem? Do i have to buy a power supply with more AMp?
Can the PI power an illuminated button while using retropie? or is it not possible?
PLeas help me!
Thank you all in advance for your answers.
S
I have retropi 3.5 on a rpi2 using a xinmo th dual arcade usb and have added the 2 player quirk and kernel 20150818. I am seeing 2 joypads now, but have no right or down on either joystick. What have I missed? Losing my mind here
hi everyone,
i updated to the pi3 with the latest image 3.6.
my usb stick with games is not recognised in the pi3,
usb o to 7 are empty, even when i change the es_systems.cfg file to tel the pi where my games are nothing happens!
i tried several sticks but no luck so far
any suggestions?
I also had the same problem.
The RPI froze when connecting the USB wireless adapter.
I solved the problem by using a more powerful power adapter .
So if I power through the mini usb, I go through the fuse and if I power via standard usb, I bypass the fuse?
Hello i did manage to pair rpi3 and the integraded bluetooth with a genuine sixaxis ps3 controller.
if anyone is intrested i did
sudo apt-get install bluetooth
and then
sudo apt-get install pi-bluetooth
idk if both of those is needed but thats how i did. then use retropie config to pair ps3 controller
hope anyone has some help from this.
/mallorz
EDIT: 99% of the times i rebooted, controller was not pairing. had to plug in the usb cable for a couple of secounds then it pairs.
if anyone has a solution for this problem im happy to hear :)
Hi,
I am using a PS3 controller clone (model “CECHZC2U) with Retropie 3.5 in a Berryboot -environment.
I installed the controller via the setup script, using the 2nd option “clone support gasia”.
Now, when I connect the USB cable, wait a few secs and then disconnect & press the P3 button, the controller connects and all works well.
However, after a reboot, the controller refuses to be paired, unless I connect & remove the USB cable first.
For other types of Bluetooth controllers, I’ve read somwehere that there is a file where you can make the controller “trusted” so it will auto pair upon reboot. Is there such a file or setting for this controller which I am overlooking?
The problem also exists in a “standalone” SD card installation, I tried that as well.
Anyone else having the same issue?
I simply did this, it will split it up in 2 players, although player 1 will br to the right and 2 to the left
sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt
usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040
Write it at the end of the file, save, reboot and it should work
Configuring emulators (in Windows, Linux or the Pi) is the biggest pain in the butt you’ll ever have.
If you succeed to successfully configure one or more emulators then you can call yourself a power user, no matter what developers say. Anyway, I’ll limit myself here to Mame and any controller that is properly recognized by Linux. I NEVER try to edit RetroPie/Emulationstation/Retroarch -or what have you not- directly. Only if there is no other way. First, I check if my controller is properly recognized and if all buttons and axis work from the command line (press F4) w/:
jstest /dev/input/js0
You might have to check js1 or js2 if you have multiple controllers. You might also need to install the package ‘joystick’ in Linux first by running the command:
sudo apt-get install joystick
And then there is Mame with its myriad of twin brothers: mame4all, SDLMame, advance-Mame, mame 0.94, etc. etc. Besides all of them demanding a different ROM set (why? WHY?? Aaarrggggghhh!!!!!!!) they all appear to have a different way to setup joysticks. What I do in advMame 0.94 (I use that one because it lets me save games):
– TAB (it gives you the menu)
– Configure the FOUR (!) ways the input can be configured (especially the ‘insert coin’ and ‘player 1 start’). Being: (1) Input (general) — user interface; (2) Input (general) — player 1 controls; (3) Input (general) — other controls; (4) Input (this game).
– I find this configuration to be quite tricky. It accepts multiple controls to perform an action (i.e. the ‘5’ on your keyboard for insert coin as well the ‘Select’ button on your controller). However sometimes they disappear when I try to enter an additional one.
Succes w/ configuring Mame and RetroPie! :)
P.S. Another problem altogether is to get non-PC/non-USB-standard controllers to work like your iPac or PS3 controllers or what have you not. See this page for the (limited) Linux support for the iPac.
I plugged in the USB stick to the pie and just entered the scraping menu and none of the additional installed emulators can be selected, so for now I am just scraping amiga roms to get started :(
– it seems scraping does not work for me?
I had to give up on getting roms from USB thumbdrive to the SD card on the raspberry but I succeeded in getting them on the SD card by using a network connection from my PC
but nomatter what – the scraping page just tells me this:
scraping in progress
commodore 64
game 1 of 18309 – 0013.D64
NO GAMES FOUND – SKIP
???
VICE is now shown in the menu, can I go directly to basic in VICE without loading a game?
I have no sound in UAE4ALL or VICE, I tried forcing HDMI sound but it does not work.
Sound works fine when I load up OpenElec on my pi but does not seem to work in raspbian jessie? (I have a pi version 1 model B and a 16 GB SD card)
—
using a pie for just about anything sure is time consuming and incredibly frustrating and infuriating :(
… and no sound in uae4arm ??
I used the RetroPie menu to install additional emulators, but they do not show up in the menu?
Ie. VICE should show up in the menu, even if it does not have any D64 or T64 files right?
I tried to connect my competition pro USB joysticks (the background image for uae show the outline of that particular joystick, since only the USB version of competition pro has 4 buttons AFAIK)…
But RetroPie does not recognize the USB joysticks at all?
How can I test if there is sound? Only by running an emulator?
I am preparing a USB stick right now with roms for various systems such as Amiga, C64, NES and Apple II…
I will let you guys know how it goes…
But how do I get it to show VICE and the other emulators I added to RetroPie?
And how do I get it to accept my USB joysticks as input devices?
Currently I can only use my keyboard
(the pie is inside a c64 case with a keyrah and a c64 keyboard)
You should be able to power a 2.5″ drive using the Pi’s USB port. Depends one the drive’s power consumption though I guess.
Does your config.txt contain max_usb_current=1 ?
Could maybe be the PSU also. Any way of testing the output? It could be a cheap Chinese thing that doesn’t actually provide a good clean signal and/or the rated amperage. Have you got another PSU you could try?
hi there, you actually need to download berryboot, its a separate thing :)
once you hace berry boot, unzip it to your sd/microsd card, and put the retropie berryoot image on a usb stick, just copy it like it is, don’t expand it or anything
boot your pi, youll be in a windows with a bunch of preselected oses, close the window :P
you are now looking at a window that has a button in the top left that says “load OS” left click and hold on it till the menu pops up, stick your usb stick in and choose “load os from usb stick” viola, retropie 3.5 with berryboot :)
incidentally, you can actually use an external hard drive(or usb stick) with the rpi2 provided you are using at least a 2 amp power supply, and it will auto install retropie to the hard drive/usb
so far, its a bit faster runnin off the ssd I’m using, and of course, I get access to some really ridiculous drive sizes(for like, say, ALL of the dos games :P)
enjoy!
I figured out the n64 keyboard config. https://www.petrockblock.com/forums/topic/ipac-2-n64/
And u can use it without a joystick if u set the buttons in the joystick section. I cant get 2 players working though. If u just want to use controllers just configure that through emulation station. And each controller has to be in a different usb port on the pi.
It uses a USB board to control them
I have this 5v 3.1A 3 port USB charger that I got cheap off Ebay.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/351643969026?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&var=620626732872&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
It boots the Pi fine, but if I plug in a Hard Drive with splitter cable, then I get that little rainbow in the upper right hand corner that tells me that I don’t have enough power.
On the other hand, if I plug the Hard Drive thicker power cable into the HUB, then th other USB cable into the Pi, both that and the Pi’s own MiniUSB port are used to power it up and it works.
My question is whether or not I could fry my Pi by doing it this way or if I should just use an external hard drive with it’s own devoted PSU?
Found out that some more people – as seen in my quote some posts above, or here
[quote=104839]Hi,
I want to use an USB audio device with the Pi2. After installing it, no games are started anymore. The following error i can see quickly on the screen:
lvl0: VolumeControl::init() – Failed to find mixer elements
[/quote]got this message, but both seem to have a soundcard…but why do I get this error without a soundcard?
And more important – how to fix it?
It is a Pi 2, actual Raspbian Jessi (I do update, upgrade+dist-upgrade almost daily).
Audio through hdmi, mouse microsoft wireless with its own stick and a bt-stick for my bt-keyboard. Joypad -> usb + a wifi-stick. Everything else works fine, except this message. Memorysplit is actually 256.
I first recognized this after I’ve done a complete binary install (3.5) over my ‘old’ Retropie-install (3.2?, not sure).
Days ago (as described in another thread) I removed Retropie with the new uninstall-option through the setup-script completely. After that I reinstalled it manually, only partial (ES, RetroArch, ScummVM and lrSnes9x) – without change regarding that message.
Hi All,
Hoping someone can offer help here:-
I have a Pi Zero, running the latest retropie 3.5
As it has no audio onboard, I’ve gone with a USB audio device which reports as a USB generalplus technologies inc. device.
I’ve followed the online tutorials on getting USB sound working. I’ve seen that with retropie I need to be editing /etc/asound.conf to add the default device notes, also that I need to edit /lib/modprobe.d/aliases.conf to comment out the USB audio index=-2 line.
I can get the audio working inside of the emulation station menu as I hear the clonk when I change choices. It also reports ok in alsamixer (or the ES audio settings option).
I’ve found its working (sorta) in LR-Mame4all but its really choppy. and regular mame4all wont play the roms. it just drops back to the menu. If I undo my changes to conf files, mame4all plays fine (albeit without sound.
Any thoughts, suggestions?
After a fresh install,
I still get an errormessage when leaving ES saying something like
“lvl0: …init: failed to load Mixer-elements”
– is that normal actually? Is it already known as a problem/bug? Do I make something wrong?
It appears even after I set the audio-output correct to hdmi somewhere in the setup-script.
I use only normal hdmi-ouput, no soundcard, but [quote=118157]Are you using a USB sound card? I am, and I get this error.[/quote] it seems I am not the only person having this message!
What causes it? Is there any way to fix it by myself? Is it harmful at all, do you have this error, too?
@label: this might actually be the solution to a question I was going to ask. My Fat32 formatted USB stick performs very poorly when copying files to it over SSH (around 600kbyte per second) as opposed to 6-8mbyte per second when copying to the internal SD Card.
Do these values match your experience? In that case I will have to reformat.
max_usb_current allows you to use a large external hard drive, without it, they just click and do not power up.
There are about 4 or 5 methods to get data off SD and onto USB, which method are you using?
Mine more or less match your settings here except that I have my sdram_freq at 483. (500 was unstable.) I also do not have max_usb_current set, whatever that does.
It is connected through a SATA cable to usb, (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01440BTS8?keywords=sata%20cable&psc=1&qid=1456575414&ref_=sr_1_3&s=pc&sr=1-3-spons) And once plugged into pi, it will act as a big usb drive
P.S If you attach a SSD like this, Put “usb max current = 1” so it will work properly.
thanks for the reply,
i actually already have 2 USB drives in my RetroPie a 64gb & a 128gb, but thats not enough at the moment
i could get another 128gb but my mind keeps going back to SSDs
How are you going to hook it up? USB casing I guess? USB2 casings are cheap but perhaps one with its own power supply is worth it?
I am a big fan of the Samsung Evo 850 series.
Just out of curiosity: wouldn’t a large USB Stick (say 128GB) fit your needs? Much cheaper and drive performance is barely an issue in Retropie.
OK, so 3.5 of RetroPie auto expands the SD’s file system, so if you want to host RetroPie from USB, you have to boot from SD and let it auto expand the FS and reboot.
Though you can not let it reboot back into EmulationStation because if you set up the controller, then copy the file system to USB and boot off of it; then EmulationStation will claim that no controllers are detected. For what ever reason, you have to set them up when booting fully into EmulationStation off USB, not SD, for the first time.
