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It does but the cable’s not long enough for what I need. The wired SNES controller would have been less expensive!

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To be honest I regret buying the thing, should have just gotten a cheaper wired USB SNES controller instead.

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[quote=104289]I seem to have bluez installed, but I cannot install bluez-utils.
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Looks like my usefulness has been exhausted with yourself then :S In fairness I’m only running RetroPie by itself so yeah it might be some conflict there.

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Yes, I did it today. At the step where we need to make the controller a trusted device it returns the error you can see in the picture below (sorry I didn’t know how to copy the text from Putty).
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It might be because you tried to set up the controller with a different method, leading to a conflict? If it were me I would start over with a new image.

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I’d be interested to know if it would work for you if you had a go at the Adafruit tutorial I posted previously: https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-bluefruit-ez-key-diy-bluetooth-hid-keyboard/linux-e-dot-g-raspberry-pi

Seems odd that you can’t install bluez.

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Did you go through the Adafruit tutorial that I suggested?

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Sorry I misread you. I don’t believe I needed to modify the config in the end but it definitely existed, and I’m on version 3 also. I’ll maybe take another look when I get home.

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So you’re at the same place as me then? Let me know if you solve it!

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Is it not KeyboardDisplay you search for as opposed to DisplayKeyboard?

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Here’s what I did to get my controller to connect over bluetooth:

– Make sure controller firmware is up to date.

– Connect dongle to Pi and switch on, press F4 to go to command line after RetroPie has loaded.

– Follow step 1 in this tutorial exactly: link

– Skip step 2 in that tutorial and go on to step 3. I believe I turned my NES30 controller on in normal mode (hold START for 3 secs) before performing the hcitool scan. The Pi may ask you at a certain point during step 3 for a PIN, just type 0000, but you shouldn’t need to press anything on the controller. If it doesn’t work with the controller in normal mode, try it in keyboard mode (START + B).

You “should” have the thing connected now. If you switch off your controller and reboot the Pi, once the OS has finished loading and asks for a controller config you should be able to switch the controller on in normal mode and it should connect (solid blue light). However you might then have the keyboard conflict issue that I have. Try what herbert42 said and see if that works out for you.

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See I tried that but I had an issue where certain buttons can’t be skipped which led to confusion. I’ll maybe try it again.

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I’ll get back to you once I’ve revisited what I did, it might be a while as I won’t be near my pi for a while. Someone else might get to you before I do!

In terms of the bindings I pretty much gave up when I got the keyboard issue and didn’t take it any further, for now at least.

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I managed to get one of these controllers to connect to the Pi over Bluetooth after a couple of evenings of frustration, but now I have an issue where in the initial controller configuration the d-pad is recognised as a keyboard input and the buttons are recognised as the NES30 gamepad.

I noticed that on the 8bitdo firmware updates section that in firmware version 2.52 they had addressed the issue of d-pads being registered as keyboard arrows, but it would seem that this is not the case. Personally I think it is a firmware issue that has not been adequately addressed, but I’m willing to be proven wrong.

I might be able to help you connect the thing over bluetooth (if you haven’t sussed that out already), but I wouldn’t be able to solve the issue I’m having for you, if you indeed come across it yourself.

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That’s a negative, I’ll maybe try that when I go home.

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I did a binaries-based installation, first option on the retropie_setup.sh script.

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Is this what you’re getting?

I ran some sort of update last night and I have no idea how to get the pretty theme back.

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