L1, L2, R1, and R2 Not Working on PS3 Controller

[klay824]

Hello everyone,

I built my first Retropie on a Raspberry Pi 3 about a week and a half ago and have been having trouble with the shoulder buttons working on my PS3 controller for ALL emulators. I have been able to fix it only for the N64 emulator by modifying the InputAutoCfg file for the mupen64plus emulator. I have been searching and trying different things for about a week now to find a fix for my other emulators (specifically SNES). I have made sure the PS3 controller cfg and the snes/retroarch.cfg files have the correct mapping for the controls, and still a no-go on the shoulder buttons. This problem only exists on my Dualshock 3. I have a Logitech Precision Gamepad as well and the buttons work correctly on it (but it does not have analog sticks for N64). I would like to just use the Dualshock 3 and not have to switch out gamepads for different emulators.

I am running Retropie version 3.8.1 on an SD card on a Raspberry Pi 3. Has anyone else had this problem or have any suggestions?

[wowbagger]

@klay824 I'm getting the same problem. The soulder buttons don't seem to work for SNES and PSX emulation, no matter what I've tried.

[klay824]

Well, I finally got mine working correctly. After searching and trying everything under the sun, I decided to wipe my SD card and do a fresh install of Retropie and reconfigured just a keyboard and PS3 controller and that solved it. I think I may have had too many other gamepads and the data was beginning to conflict. This time around I didn't even have to edit the InputAutoCfg.ini file to get the buttons working correctly for the N64 emulator. Lost some saved game data, but could not figure out any other way to fix this. SNES, N64, and PSX working perfect now.

[wowbagger]

@klay824 Glad to know that you managed to fix it, albeit in this radical way. I gave up and jumped to Recalbox for the time being, I found it to be more user friendly to someone as useless as I am in Linux.