Almost finished home RasPi 3B, Issue with Controllers, Need fresh minds

[tjayhawk32]

@mitu

@mitu said in Almost finished home RasPi 3B, Issue with Controllers, Need fresh minds:

Do all USB controllers get detected and working all at once ?

Is there an easy way to do this without installing Ubuntu and RetroPie on my PC?

[mitu]

@tjayhawk32 said in Almost finished home RasPi 3B, Issue with Controllers, Need fresh minds:

Is there an easy way to do this without installing Ubuntu and RetroPie on my PC?

Yes, you can use your Windows installation and install RetroArch to see how it works - it has also a Windows version. You'll have RetroArch standalone, so no Emulationstation or joystick/gamepad configuration dialog - you'll have to do that from RetroArch.

[mitu]

Or you could download Lakka, which is a live Linux distro with just RetroArch, just like RetroPie, but based on a different Linux distribution model.

[tjayhawk32]

@mitu Starting now.

Also idk if this matters, but all of the controllers are active in the menu.

[tjayhawk32]

@mitu
https://imgur.com/qsbEsK2

I can't get it to log anything, so hopefully this helps. There are a total of 8 ports being used on the hub for this, with a few of those having dual ports like N64, Genesis and DC.

Curious if the ones that showed up as 'not configured' were the reason those emulators stopped launching, I tried selecting the ones that did configure back on the RetroPie, and even unset, with the same crash result on Genesis.

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[tjayhawk32]

@BuZz I fixed it on my end, but do you mean they're bouncing and you were getting them back?

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[tjayhawk32]

Understood. Sorry about that.

[tjayhawk32]

@mitu I've done a fresh install. Im going to plug in and configure the controllers one at a time.

What scripts/tests should i run and document in between each to see when/if it starts messing up?
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[mitu]

@tjayhawk32 There's no scripts to be run, just configure the controllers - one by one - and then start RetroArch, see if all of them are detected and if they work (at least the controllers that's slotted for Player1).
See if/when they stop working and try to unplug one and notice if the configuration is stable again. Start with only 1 powered hub (maybe you have a 7 port hub), so that's only 1 USB port on the Pi that's taken.

[tjayhawk32]

@mitu Got it.

Do you think it matters where the 2-port adapters go in the sequence? (like before or after one-port adapters for whatever reason)

[mitu]

@tjayhawk32 I don't think the order matters. The Pi has only 1 internal USB hub, any port would go over the same data path.