Missing something simple?

[gjviii]

Let me start by saying I am a carpenter and not a computer guy. I saw this and decided to build it since it was 'easy' and no programming needed.

Long story short, after building and installing retropie on a raspberry pi using ipac4, I cant get retropie to recognize the control panel I built. if I use a usb xbox controller it sees it and can configure it. the same for a usb keyboard. am I missing something simple with configuring my control board? it seems everything I have read says 'it just worked'. Again, am I missing something simple? if not, what is the next step for setting up my customer controller. thanks for any direction given.

[edmaul69]

There is another post with a firmware upgrade and i believe it removes the ipac being a joystick and makes it a keyboard. That is a common problem.

[rbaker]

@gjviii Try this:

1. Clean install, Plug a keyboard in and boot the lot up.
2. Configure a Keyboard and make a note of the keys you choose.
   3. Backup your retroarch.cfg
3. Edit retroarch.cfg with all your player 1 and 2 choices (from 2 above)
   5. Save it and shutdown
   6. Remove Keyboard
   7. Plug in Ipac
   8. Boot up and all your keyboard controls will now be mapped to your sticks automatically by the Ipac if you correctly wire the ups, downs, lefts, rights etc to the right place.

This worked for me but if you try MAME4ALL or ADVMAME the iPAC will work out of the box as it's the default configuration. Avoid letting the ipac autodetect in emulationstation.

[gjviii]

Thanks for the suggestions I'll be back home on Friday and will give it a try

[kcc406]

I would aslo check to see what the buttons are programmed for say button "a" is connected to the "t" key on a keyboard, retropie wont do anything because it thinks you are pressing "t" instead of the key that is programmed of retropie