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07/09/2015 at 22:44 #101744AnonymousInactive
Hi.
Pretty new to Retropie/RPI in general but I’ve learned a lot the last days.
Thing is, I’ve been playing all sorts of emus & roms with a PS2-clone USB wired joypad “GreenTechAsia”, with nothing to complain about.
Then yesterday I purchased the official “Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Controller for Windows & Xbox 360 Console”
(Link: This one: Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless controller)… and used this Youtube-guide:
RetroPie: Xbox wireless controller setup on Raspberry Pi – by Floob… which refers to these instructions:
Github: Setting up the XBox360 controller… but with lesser satisfaction.
I know that the USB-reciever which is plugged in to the RPI should “detect” 4 controllers natively, and that’s correct when I check the js*-files in /dev/input/
However after following – the exact – instructions of that Youtube video & the Github instructions, my Emulationstation “detects” 3 joypads instead of only 1 controller (which it’s supposed to be).
A look in the
/dev/input
folder shows me js0, js1 and js2.The input js1 is the only one that responds when doing a jtest.
That’s.. well irritating to say the least… since retroarch-joypad configure goes for the js0-input.All in all:
If I only knew how to “get rid” of the other 2 phantom controllers so Emulationstation only detects 1 (real) controller would be nice.
Even nicer would be if I managed to set my Xbox 360 wireless joypad from js1 to js0 – so I could run the retroarch joypad config properly.
I’m used to having my good ‘ol wired USB pads properly set up via retroarch and then to be found in the
/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/configs/
folderI’ve tested to just remove the phantom js-files, but after reboot they spawn alive those little twitchers… grrr!
Help me!
It sucks having a brand new USD $50 controller to be collecting dust if I don’t work this out.
The normally refered to retroarch.cfg, es_systems.cfg and es_config.cfg files – for me – are “mysterial” files that I don’t in any way have the slightest grip of.
Besides from switching paths for roms & set video_smooth = true, that is :)
Otherwise I think I’ve got a pretty good platform to build from now, a RPI2 + Retropie 2.6 + loads of roms.
Did the “Binary based” install in RetroPieSetup.
And the “Perform script update” … if that could make it easier for you to help me?Anyways, thanks in advance.
/Alucard the Swede, hence the rusty English grammatics.
07/09/2015 at 23:36 #101747FloobMemberDoes this help?
07/10/2015 at 00:18 #101751AnonymousInactiveThanks a lot Floob, gave me new hope… but what is this “retroarch autoconfig”, to begin with?
Is it the same as
RetroPie-Setup -> 3. “Setup / Configuration (to be used post install)” -> 316. “Install RetroArch joypad autoconfigs”?
Or what is it, I’m curious :)
Thanks in advance.
/Alucard
07/10/2015 at 02:15 #101759AnonymousInactiveUpdate.
Got rid of the “phantom” js-devices.
Only 1 (real) joypad is detected in
Emulationstation.And the controller is set js0 – which means that I could configure it in the Retroarch setup…
… thanks to the script in the /etc/rc.local file
xboxdrv --trigger-as-button --id 1 --led 3 --deadzone 4000 --silent & sleep 1 xboxdrv --trigger-as-button --id 2 --led 4 --deadzone 4000 --silent & sleep 1
.. posted in the link you put up here.
Thumbs up! :)
However, Retroarch does not map the keys properly and the controls .cfg file is not placed in
/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/configs/
… like they were before.. now it’s some retroarch-joypad folder./opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/
Anyway, thanks for the help and I’ll try to jstest my controller and manually write down the mappings, then manually into the joypads .cfg file :)
/Alucard
07/10/2015 at 21:47 #101812AnonymousInactiveUPDATE 2: Got it working. *facepalm*
Of course I had to do the command:
sudo cat /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/XboxGamepad(userspacedriver\).cfg >> /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
… to get the controller working in the emulators, with input_hotkey_enable_btn and all those features.
I don’t know what’s up with the latest RetroPie 2.6 revision, before I started messing around with “install binary scripts” and stuff my old USB-joypad .cfg-file was defined and ran from the folder:
/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/configs/
(Never needed to touch the retroarch.cfg file for setting up my old controller, in other words)
Anyway, problem SOLVED :D
/Alucard
07/10/2015 at 22:46 #101813FloobMemberThats really not a great way to do it as it hard codes all your settings.
If you installed 2.6.0 then did a binary update it may well have issues because of the major path changes. I would recommend starting with 2.6 and not updating it, or use version 3 beta 4. Either should do the trick.
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