[PeanutButterBoy]

My guess is that this is the best we’re going to get for now. It seems like EmulationStation simply doesn’t keep scanning for BT controllers once it’s on the “no gamepads detected” screen. It will still respond to a BT connected gamepad, but it doesn’t map the keys to the config file. I’d love to see a fix or workaround but I think the EmuStation guy (Aloshi?) would need to do it.

[PeanutButterBoy]

For anyone that is using this fix as well as the Blurry Blue Retropie splashscreen, here’s an edited version to remind you when to hit the PS button. Just put this splashscreen in a new folder in /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/supplementary/splashscreens and choose it from within the Retropie Setup Script.

[PeanutButterBoy]

I was having the same issue, and similar to killer101, I did the following:

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

add the following 2 lines right before the “exit 0” line:

hciconfig device up
hciconfig enable pscan

This is a slightly better method in case your device isn’t hci0.

[PeanutButterBoy]

I was not aware of that – thank you!

[PeanutButterBoy]

dudleydes – thanks for that, it works, but is there no way to fully fix this issue? On my RPi2, I uesd to boot to EmulationStation within 10 seconds, so this makes it considerably longer! Yet even so, I have to hit the PS button within a 5-second window, otherwise I need to reprogram the controller.

I’m guessing it is an EmulationStation “issue” since it doesn’t rescan for controllers when a Bluetooth connection is made?

[PeanutButterBoy]

Any idea what the issue is here? I’ve got the same issue and I’m prepping to re-image my card, but there’s gotta be some way to fix this without a full re-image….

[PeanutButterBoy]

So when I select option 5 “INSTALL individual emulators…” this will download and install the latest emulator binaries? I assume choosing option 5 will also overwrite the config for whichever emulator I choose to install?

Thanks for your help.

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