Emulationstation with wireless USB gamepad (MYGT) issue.

[timothyjbrick]

Hello all!

I seem to be having a strange issue with my gamepad. In emulation station I get the "no gamepads detected" message, however when I hit one of the buttons (the Home button) it flashes Keyboard. That is the ONLY button it recognizes, and it see its as a keyboard button for some reason.

The other strange thing is... in the menus outside of emulationstation (RetroPie-Setup Script) the gamepad functions completely normal. I have no issues with it there..

Any idea what would cause that?

Thank you in advance for any information you may have.

[mitu]

@timothyjbrick Its seems that's another Android controller which only works with it's own protocol and doesn't advertise itself as a real gamepad.

Try using jstest from the terminal to see if it sends the standard button/joystick moves - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/#determining-button-values.

[timothyjbrick]

@mitu Thanks for the reply. I just ran jstest and it does shows me the values of each button as well as the analog sticks and triggers. Thats the weird thing, the pi itself knows its a gamepad, but emulationstation refuses to acknowledge it for some reason.

[mitu]

@timothyjbrick That's because ES uses SDL to talk to the joystick. See https://github.com/meleu/jstest-sdl for testing using the SDL library, it's similar to jstest, but through the SDL joystick mapping.