Can you give more details about your system ? See https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first; you don't have to list all gamepads in the info, but what is important is what platform are you running on and how are the gamepads connected.

EmulationStation should save the controller info after the gamepad is configured, this is stored in $HOME/.emulationstation or (if you're using file shares to access your system) in \\retropie\configs\emulationstation. The filename is es_input.cfg and you can check its contents after each controller is configured to see if an entry for it is added.
It's better to add them one by one and - after adding one controller - restart EmulationStation and check that the controller works fine.

[..] when I run games it goes to the 4 arcade joysticks.

That's probably because they're added as Player 1 - 4 in the order of their detection and they're always detected first.

I have set retroarch to show 13 ports so I can finally see all the controllers

Not sure how useful this is unless you want to play a 13 player game - not a very common scenario.

. I also have the setup of the controllers get mixed up in emulation station and I have to go back into setup each one or restart the system.

That may happen if different controllers have the same name and Vendor/Product IDs. The name and VID/PID serve as an identifier to the configuration of the controller (not only in EmulationStation, but emulators also). That's not something that can be fixed easily or by configuration: if 2 different controllers identify themselves similarly, then how can the system tell them apart ?

xpadneo is the right driver for the Bluetooth Xbox One controller, xpad should stay for the wired ones.

Make sure you remove any paired/detected devices in the Bluetooth menu and then re-attempt the pairing.

@blackholebomb
I had to add usbhid.quirks=0xf000:0x0008:0x100000 to /boot/cmdline.txt and then reboot to get the missing buttons working.

@nicshoe18

I had to add usbhid.quirks=0xf000:0x0008:0x100000 to /boot/cmdline.txt and then reboot to get jstest detect the missing buttons.

@sirhenrythe5th
File patch:
/retropie/roms/psp/Battlefront Renegade Squadron.iso

@fatfei said in Joystick not working in emulators:

I can move the joy stock to select different characters but when it comes to a race, I can't turn. I randomly chose another bye game and the stick doesn't work on that either.

I think this is because the N64 games were set up to only use the analog stick. If you mapped your joystick to the UP,DOWN,LEFT,RIGHT buttons, then that is the same as using the D-Pad. The analog stick has separate mappings. Something like Left Analog Up, etc.

Ok, this is embarrassing.
It turned out that (for some reason) the volume was set to -60 db in the playback audio setting, and this (for some reason) affects also the Kodi UI sound volume. The playback audio settings are separated from the general settings > system > audio, but the playback audio can be modified pressing the keyboard keys + and -. This, coupled with the weird behavior of Kodi that (for some reason) does not play UI sounds when using a controller, but only when using a keyboard.
It turned out to be a rather silly problem, but I leave it here hoping this can help others facing the same behavior.

@jimmyfromthebay

Due to this thread I found that there was a mistake in my script and I fixed it.
So now it can create lr-mess overlays for gnw from the mame artwork.
2022-03-02-183543_800x600_scrot_resized.png
I think it's not what you are looking for, though.
It is still an overlay and transparency is always used and not perfect.

I have tried the combination lr-mess with mame artwork but never had any result,
because then the game just won't load.

Perhaps you both can find a way.
It would really be nice if it could work like you want to.

@silvan Doesn't work even with a dongle. Using bluetoothctl I can pair it, but the controller keeps flashing and it doesn't work,.

@persephale It's the same as flashing a sdcard, if your Pi supports booting from USB. Pi4 should have this by default, for the Pi3 you still need a sdcard in order to boot RaspiOS and enable USB booting. See https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/raspberry-pi.html#usb-mass-storage-boot for more details on Pi USB boot support.

@sleve_mcdichael

BLAH! I had a feeling that was coming. Cool. Thanks for the info!

@redmarsbluemoon We intend to include SDL 2.0.20 - not only in Bullseye, but on Buster also. For Mesa, we always use the version offered by the OS, I don't think this will change soon.

@chaoseffect Done. It's possible it'll just lead to a "mute" moment, but it's worth a shot :D I'm happy to follow a lead, but I really just don't know where to go from there.

Roms (and saves) can be easily be placed on an external disc - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/.

For configurations (almost all of them are kept in /opt/retropie/configs), there's no out-of-the-box solution available, since they require a Linux filesystem and generally users have a PC/macOS compatible partitioning schema on their external disc.

If you want to dedicate a SSD just for running RetroPie, you can just install RetroPie on the SSD drive (same process as installing it on a sdcard) directly.

Has anybody ever came across a good learning book for this stuff?

RetroPie specific documentation - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/. Raspberry Pi documentation - https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/ (has a Getting started section and a Using RasPI OS guide). The RetroPie image is based on RasPI OS. For Linux in general, I'd recommend the Debian user guide (https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/index.en.html). RasPI OS is based on Debian, so it should apply to a RetroPie installation.

We have some notes in the docs about dealing with a 4k resolution, but the canonical source is always the Raspberry Pi docs at https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/configuration.html#hdmi-configuration.

EDIT: I'll add some notes about the 2nd port and a link to the video mode table listing.

@winterelf 3rd party builds are not supported by this forum.

If this were a build direct from this forum, the above fix would have worked. The file extension list in the es_system.cfg is the only change you need to make to allow a file to be shown in the game list of each system. It will just show without meta data until it is scrapped. This is also how it shows any images or videos. Once ES reads that file extension in that list, it knows what to do.

So who knows why your build is not doing that. You'll have to ask the team that created it.

@tigtagle said in Rasp-Config not working:

I also used a wolfanoz image for arcade 1up and flashed that onto my card too.

3rd party images are not supported as they are often distributed with copywrited material and are basically impossible to troubleshoot.