OK thanks for that will upgrade

@edmaul69 And here is the requested Config. Since i cant upload Stuff here, i got you a Mediafire-Link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/az6zsxquld1gz2q/Xbox+Wireless+Controller.cfg

@thultisu Enable SSH, login as the pi user (password is _raspberry), run sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh, go to the Emulationstation package and reset the controller configuration.

@markyh444 Welcome, srry just got confused ill look into to it. When I have Qs I will ask thanks.

I think I may have found the problem - fake DS3 controllers.

They look great, absolutely like the genuine article, but having a look at some YouTube videos they do have a few of the similarities described in some of the videos for fake controllers. For example, the top of the box they came in is light blue rather than the darker, patterned blue of a real box, approximately 1 minute in to this video

They also won't connect through the offical PS3 configuration in the menu - I have to use the Shanwam (is that the right word?) setup/driver to make them work.

When I plug them into my PC it says a PS3 Controller has been detected - would it say something else if they were genuine? Like DualShock 3 detected or similar?

Also, as above, they just don't seem to want to charge. Lights will flash when plugged into my computer using the cable that was supplied with them, but they never stops flashing, and its all 4 lights flashing rather than just one.

When plugged into the Pi they just won't stop vibrating either!

Girlfriend got them from eBay and while they look the part I'm convinced this could be the problem. Shame, as I don't really want to have to spend £50 a pop on DualShock 4 controllers!

Maybe I could get some battery packs and dig out my old Xbox 360 pads instead? They're great, but the batteries on them are dying.

@herb_fargus I guess he's halfway there then already!

Hi, thanks a lot to everybody for the answers! And my apologize to not being clear in my question.
I have a panel with just one coin button. And more or less, a part games like vendetta, it works, even with other emulators. But of course I'd like to have a complete experience, so I'm trying to figure out a way without changing panel, if there is no solution I'll dig another hole, but is going to be a quite a mess, so I'd like to avoid it.
I try to wire player2 coin to player1 coin. It works, everytime I press coin button I get 2 coins and with vendetta games I have another player ready to go. But with other emulators it's a mess, it's like pressing select button at the same time for both users and as example for PC Engine games I had lot's of problem, so I roll back.
The only working way, without doing another hole, in my opinion, it's a combo buttons (hot-key), like Start Player 2 + A player 2 button = player 2 coin, something like that. I'm using XiMo interface, and reading around I did not find any useful instruction on how to do it. Hot-keys are only available for particular purpose as far as I understand.

thanks again

I looked for 3 days for an answer... apparently not hard enough. Thank you very much!

Please give more details about your system - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@rbox420 To skip mapping a button, just long press an existing button on the gamepad - like instructed on the mapping screen.

@caver01 Thanks very much. This is exactly what I was looking for. The DK scenario is one I hadn't contemplated (map all buttons) and a good idea.

@courtesybear howchoo =death by ads.

Official docs are ad free ;)

Alright thank you.

Is it only certain games every time or is it random when it works or doesnt? If it's the same games every time I'd say that it could be possible those games have a non lr- Mame emulator associated with them which could mean the bindings are loaded from a separate cfg whereas all of the lr- emulators use the global retroarch cfg. You should be able to spot check a couple in the runcommand splash screen menu if it's enabled.

I found myself in the same situation when I installed the Retropie Manager. Told me I had invalid BIOS files and also rom titles I tried to transfer to my pi. I already was transferring through ssh, but thought I would try the manager out. Boy was I mistaken..lol.

@caz That is fantastic. I love the panel graphics!

Thank you! That sent me in the right direction..... /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation contains a file es_input.cfg. Just had to reverse the keyboard input IDs for Start and A button.

@buzz I'm a completely new to the Retropie scene, so please forgive my stupidity.

If I run a game from a command line I'm assuming that I have to quit Emulation Station.

If I do that will the config file still be used for the system that I am running from the command line to back out of a game (hotkey+start)?

I'm asking because I do not want to unplug my Pi when I'm done with a game...

Thank you in advance!!