[cnichols]

I figured it out! I noticed it mentioned something about Port #3 when I loaded a game and wondered if the retroarch.cfg file should say something beside input_player1_joypad_index = “0”.

Recorded the opening screen and the yellow text along the bottom reads:
joypad port #0 (SNES-to-Gamepad Device) configured
joypad port #2 (ControlBlock SNES gamepad) configured
joypad port #3 (ControlBlock SNES gamepad) configured
joypad port #1 (SNES-to-Gamepad Device) configured

changed the retroarch.cfg file so input_player1 = 2 and input_player2 = 3.
Started emulationstation and was able to navigate ES as well as use my original controllers within the game.

I now need to troubleshoot controller 2 because the A button isn’t registering. I think it is likely a hardware or connection issue that I’ll have to figure out.

Thanks again for the help!

[cnichols]

Alright I got it back to where I was in the beginning. I have the NES controllers able to navigate emulationstation. I have changed the NES RetroArch.cfg file to make the one posted by tanglo (Thank You!). I have ensured the button configuration matched what was logged when I configured for ES.
A=1
B=3
Up=1-
Down=1+…

When I select a game, I still cant get the NES controllers to do anything. I unplugged all other connections and just have the two NES controllers plugged in. Both work in ES, neither work within the games themselves.

What other options do I have?

[cnichols]

df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail use% Mounted on
rootfs 15G 1.7G 13G 13% /
/dev/root 15G 1.7G 13G 13% /
devtmpfs 119M 0 119M 0% /dev
tmpfs 25M 388K 25M 2% /run
tmpfs 5M 0 5M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 49M 0 49M 0% /run/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p1 57M 53M 4M 94% /boot

[cnichols]

I type sudo raspi-config
and select Option 1 > Expand Filesystem > ok > reboot

When I load the SD card in my computer, it says the disk only has a 60 MB partition.
Any idea how to fix this?

[cnichols]

So I was getting frustrated and started over from the beginning. Finally got all the hardware to be recognized and somewhat finished so I thought I was just having software issues. Formatting my SD card and installed RetroPie V 2.6. Ran through all of the setup stuff from
https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup
After I installed the emulators via binaries I shut down the Pi and Started installing the control block service per:
https://github.com/petrockblog/ControlBlockService

After I get to the

cd ControlBlockService
make

I got the following message:

–Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
Makefile:27: recipe for target ‘../lib/jsoncpp/build/release/lib/libjsoncpp.a’ failed
make[1]: *** [../lib/jsoncpp/build/release/lib/libjsoncpp.a] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/pi/ControlBlockService/src/controlblock’
makefile:16: recipe for target ‘all’ failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

when I try to access the controlblockconfig.cfg file the only thing that shows up is a line at the top of the screen that says ‘GNU nano 2.2.6’

Any experience with what this means or how to fix it?

[cnichols]

I am using the ControlBlock with a RPi B+ to run RetroPie for a NES system and am currently facing 2 issues:

1. I am getting a message on the Retropie splash screen when I boot on that states “readonly mode, sorry (start with –edit?)

2. I am able to use the NES controllers to navigate EmulationStation but when I select a game, I do get any response within the game. A yellow alert shows up along the base of the screen that says “Joypad port #1 (SNES to Gamepad Device) configured”

I changed the controller configuration using

sudo nano ~/controlblockconfig.cfg
and commented arcade and uncommented SNES.

Any idea how to fix these two issues?

Do I need to install the SNES Dev programs if I’m using the ControlBlock?

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