I’ve been trying to get my NES controller port to work from the GPIO pins off and on for the past 6 months, and have yet to be able to make them work. Every forum thread or repo README feels like it gets most of the way there, then there’s some error that prevents me from completing the setup.
Most recently, I tried installing the gamecon_gpio_rpi_dkms and it told me dmks is not installed. I ran sudo apt-get install dkms and got a warning: “version ‘*-*’ has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit
It is likely that 3.12.32+ belongs to a chroot’s host
Building for architecture armv61
Module build for the currently running kernel was skipped since the
kernel source for this kernel does not seem to be installed.”
I’ve tried getting it set up from the RetroPie SD card image, from installing via source, and installing from binaries. Installing SNESDev-RPi using the README instructions didn’t get it working, and the page at https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/gamecon_gpio_rpi doesn’t tell me how to actually install and run the gamecon_gpio.
Is there any tutorial out there that will actually walk you through how to set this up? It seems everyone else is able to get this thing working but me, and every time I leave it for a month or two thinking that, when I return to it, someone will have written a more comprehensive post on setting it up.
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