I have recently updated my kernel using the guide provided on this site, http://ithink.ch/blog/2013/09/08/patching_the_linux_kernel_to_install_the_xin-mo_dual_arcade_driver_on_a_raspberry_pi.html and everything worked wonderfully.
When I run jstest /dev/input/js0 all buttons and axes register perfectly. Before the kernel update left and up did not register on neither joysticks. Axes 0 and 1 is for joystick #1 and Axes 2 and 3 is for joystick #2 before the update the 0 on the axes turned to 32767 and now it has added -32767 but still the same 0,1,2,3 axes as the layout.
The first thing I do is to remove es_input.cfg and then start ES to map out a few keys to the menu.
My problem then is to map the keys to my ROMs, witch i have no idea how to lay out in retroach.

I bought a USB Atari Joystick replica and it works fantastically on my PC. Trouble is, I want to use it with RetroPie but when I try to map it in EmulationStation so that it will be recognized as my second controller, I obviously don’t have enough buttons to complete the setup (won’t let me map more than one command to the same button). Is there anyway to configure this manually?

Hi everybody,
I use two PS2 controlles connected through an USB adapter to the Pi. All of the sudden, NES and Genesis (to name some examples), but not FBA nor SNES, started having this problem:
Joystick one controls both controllers, while joystick 2 does nothing.
I have no clue of what is going on…

Hi everyone,

hope you could help me with my problem…. I’m actually this freaked out and dont know where to look for erors anymore…

I’ve set up RetroPie with the installation instruction on this wiki. Its works fine. I Already got 1 xbox 360 Wireless controller working (although like mentioned in the wiki) and already started a game. Everythings perfect.

Now i tried to install a second Xbo 360 Wireless Controller. I plugged the wireless usb receiver in my pi and started it.
No xbox controller is recognized. The “X” is blinking ==> not connected/recognized.

If i remove the second wireless usb controller and reboot, my first Xbox Controller is recognized and i can play.

I’ve got the following config:

/etc/rc.local:

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

# Print the IP address
_IP=$(hostname -I) || true
if [ "$_IP" ]; then
  printf "My IP address is %s\n" "$_IP"
fi
xboxdrv --trigger-as-button --wid 0 --led 2 --detach-kernel-driver --deadzone 4000 --silent &
sleep 1
xboxdrv --trigger-as-button --wid 1 --led 3 --detach-kernel-driver --deadzone 4000 --silent &
exit 0

The steps i already did:
1. Remove the entries in rc.local and reboot with only 1 inserted 360 usb wireless connector. then i used the command:xboxdrv --trigger-as-button --wid 0 --led 2 --detach-kernel-driver --deadzone 4000 --silent & and the xboxdrv says “connected” and my xbox controller was recognized and i could game on.
2. Remove the entries in rc.local and reboot with my 2 inserted 360 usb wireless cc onnectors. Then i used the same command as above and i received the error

root@raspberrypi:~# xboxdrv --trigger-as-button --wid 0 --led 2 --detach-kernel-driver --deadzone 4000 --silent &
[1] 2466
root@raspberrypi:~# xboxdrv 0.8.4 - http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/
Copyright © 2008-2011 Ingo Ruhnke <grumbel@gmx.de>
Licensed under GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
conditions; see the file COPYING for details.

Controller:        Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Controller (PC)
Vendor/Product:    045e:0719
USB Path:          001:004
Wireless Port:     0
Controller Type:   Xbox360 (wireless)

-- [ ERROR ] ------------------------------------------------------
 Error couldn't claim the USB interface: LIBUSB_ERROR_BUSY
Try to run 'rmmod xpad' and then xboxdrv again or start xboxdrv with the option --detach-kernel-driver.

Looking at dmesg, it shows that the pi recognizes both my xbox 360 controllers:

3.134469] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: register 'smsc95xx' at usb-bcm2708_usb-1.1, smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet, b8:27:eb:73:21:8b
[    3.259321] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 4 using dwc_otg
[    3.397546] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=0719
[    3.414211] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    3.437297] usb 1-1.2: Product: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows
[    3.459094] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: \xffffffc2\xffffffa9\xffffffa9Microsoft
[    3.465621] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: E0182D10
[    3.579342] usb 1-1.3: new full-speed USB device number 5 using dwc_otg
[    3.740598] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=0719
[    3.759074] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    3.779061] usb 1-1.3: Product: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows
[    3.787485] usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: \xffffffc2\xffffffa9\xffffffa9Microsoft
[    3.808511] usb 1-1.3: SerialNumber: E0181EF0
[    3.981278] udevd[156]: starting version 175
[    5.779547] input: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/input/input0
[    6.079829] input: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.2/input/input1
[    6.298350] bcm2708-i2s bcm2708-i2s.0: Failed to create debugfs directory
[    6.577381] input: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.4/input/input2
[    6.935715] input: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.6/input/input3
[    7.160676] input: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0/input/input4
[    7.329853] input: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.2/input/input5
[    7.508802] input: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.4/input/input6
[    7.679934] input: Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.6/input/input7
[    7.802765] usbcore: registered new interface driver xpad
[   12.661666] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[   13.267071] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[   25.236442] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardware isn't capable of remote wakeup
[   26.795305] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC1E1
[   34.064877] Adding 102396k swap on /var/swap.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:102396k SSFS
[   34.549470] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16
[   34.552717] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[   34.552749] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[   34.552853] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   34.552883] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   34.552976] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   34.629324] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   34.629358] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   34.629439] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[   34.685109] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[   34.685244] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[   34.685264] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[   38.003415] input: Xbox Gamepad (userspace driver) as /devices/virtual/input/input8

Do you have any ideas/hints for me ? Im trying to get the 2 controllers to work for 3 days now and actually i dont have another idea where to look/what to do…

Thanks !

Retrogamer

I have connected a USB soundcard to the original speaker inside an Apple //e case. It works! But I want sound to go through that USB device only when I run LinApple (the Apple //e emulator).

Q: Is there a way to change the sound output device on the fly, when loading each emulator?

Currently I have set the system to use the USB device (the Apple speaker) system-wide, by changing the following as specified at https://learn.adafruit.com/usb-audio-cards-with-a-raspberry-pi/updating-alsa-config

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

options snd-usb-audio index=0
But I’d like to use the main sound device (HDMI output) for the rest of the system and the other emulators. Ideas welcomed!

Background: The sound quality is horribly glitchy in LinApple. But I have made an Apple Piie using an Apple //e case, including its speaker. For //e emulation, my aim is to connect the sound card output to the existing Apple //e speaker. I’m told by the dev of LinApple that using a USB sound card fixes the glitchy sound provided by the Pi.

Hello all,
I am new to my Raspberry Pi (512 model B), and my first project is to get RetroPie up and running. I followed the instructions exactly as presented on this site:
http://4a1wraspberrypi.wordpress.com/
in order to format my SD card and load the RetroPie image onto it.

However, once I plug in the SD card into the Raspberry pi (followed by the HDMI cable, my keyboard, an XBOX 360 USB controller, and a ethernet cable). Then I attempt to power on the raspberry pi by plugging in the (5V 1AMP) power source.

Only the red light indicating “POWER” lights up. Nothing is displayed on the screen. I have tried this on multiple monitors. This error occurs even when I re-format and re-flash RetroPi (both on windows and mac), I have made sure that I can re-format the card and read its contents on multiple computers (so it is likely not the SD).

Additionally, I have tried a few steps suggested on this site regarding the abnormal light:
http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting#Power_.2F_Start-up
(for example, trying the alternate bootcode.bin posted on that site. No luck. Also tried booting it up with just the SD card and the power – which allegedly produces the “OK light” for 20 seconds. Also not happening).
I’m at a loss because it seems that the process should work… Is my hardware faulty?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I’m happy to answer anything to clarify the situation.

Best,

Venkat

Hey guys, I’m getting all my stuff together to make a super nintendo pi. I will of course be putting it in a super nintendo. I ordered a lot of things to get the project going. I got the shut down switch from mausberry circuits.
I was wanting to know if someone could point me to a wiring diagram of the super nintendo power switch to the mausberry switch. I also ordered a SNES Controller to Adapter for USB from amazon. I will be taking it apart and want to solder the real snes ports to it, to make the real controllers work. I need a wiring diagram for that. Finally I want to use the rest button to exit the game and go back to emulation station. I need a wiring diagram showing from the snes reset switch to the gpio pins. Could you guys please help me out?? Thank you so much.

Hey guys i purchased a usb hub on ebay but when i plug it in nothing plugged into it works like the wireless keyboard and mouse or the snes controllers. Anyhelp?

Also i purchased a small aftermarket fan for the Rasberry pi although it is quite loud. Is there anyway to decrease the speed?

Thanks again.