Hi there

I have also a PS3 controller although connected via cable. I would also like to use snes9x or pisnes. snes9x and pisnes have smoother grafic. They add some image processing or something.
I am aware that they need manual configuraiton of the controller, but i don't get it running.

I added the snes9x.cfg file to /opt/retropie/configs/snes and rebooted. In pisnes I have no control at all, not even keyboard is working, I cant even use the escape key. With snes9x I have keyboard control but no game controllerer. I don't know where the keyboard mapping is comming from for snes9x.

Here my config file:
--cut--
[Joystick]
#Get codes from "jstest /dev/input/js0"
#from package "joystick"
A_1=13
B_1=14
X_1=12
Y_1=15
L_1=10
R_1=11
START_1=3
SELECT_1=0
#Joystick axis
#JA_LR=0
#JA_UD=1
#Joystick DPAD buttons
LEFT_1=7
RIGHT_1=5
UP_1=4
DOWN_1=6
--cut--

File permissions should be good:
pi@retropie:/opt/retropie/configs/snes $ ls -lath snes9x.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 417 Aug 7 13:00 snes9x.cfg

Here some details:
Pi Model: 3 B
RetroPie Version Used: 4.0
Built From: Binary (commit 1dd72a6cbd17359b6ceb297f5e1b93dd693118a2)
USB Devices connected: Keyboard, PS3 Controller
Controller used: PS3 Controller
Error messages received: no error message
Guide used: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Super-Nintendo-Entertainment-System
Emulator: (snes9x, pisnes)

Thanks for you help!

Best regards, Bruceundefined

figured it out, the assets for retroarch were in ~/.config/retropie/assets rather than in /opt/retropie/assets, copied em over and it's all good.

Thank you! I guess I'll copy a save from past the tutorial then...

@lilbud
You are 100% right. It's not possible to own a 1 or 2 TB SD-card for a few bucks now (in 2016!).

@RetroTime
Consider to use a seperate storage for your roms. A small SD card (4GB are more then enough!) only for the system is a great choice. Read the wiki to mount a USB device to store ROMS on it. You can even use a system link (like a desktop shortcut Windows uses) to point to your external device. Just use the internal search....

@jay81uk i use the unpowered rockband hubs on the pi zero. Only issue i have is if you are setting up wifi unplug everything except the keyboard. This is a pi zero problem not a hub problem. It happens on powered hubs as well for me.

The cheap nes snes etc etc to usb controllers have a delay. Worse when using a usb extension. NOt sure what controller you are using this or as others said try game mode

@meleu Ok ;-)

Follow this step by step and confirm the first part that deviates for you
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/First-Installation

thanks all for your help. appreciate it. I'm still learning, and this is great useful information for the future

thx, worked perfectly... just changed the config of my controller in the path you have written with these two lines and used the buttons for pushing left and right (plus the standard hotkey "select" of course.

nope putting the syscard3.pce in the directory as the cd images didnt help. havent found a program to convert a iso/wav/cue to a bin/cue yet, and as for the xbox controller issue, the pi recognises it, but a joystick test program doesnt read any inputs from it, its one of the newer xbox one controllers 16 something.

please provide more information - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Now i switched to a new microSD 32gb samsung card and did the same procedure, and now it worked, so probably a bad sd card.

See what the error log says after you have tried a rom that doesnt work.
You can check that in /tmp/runcommand.log

@joeblade did you go into retropie setup and update retropie setup, then install the emulator from there?