gamepad controls not working ingame
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Pi Model or other hardware: Pi 4B
Power Supply used: USB adapter
RetroPie Version Used: 4.7.1
Built From: downloaded it from retropie website
Controller used: trying to use the builtin gamepad
i've been struggling for a couple of weeks and i managed to use the joystick and buttons successfully on the main menu, however when i click and join any game that i downloaded, the builtin buttons and joystick stop working and ill have to use a keyboard to be able to control and play the games, anyone know what i should do? im so close yet so far -
@xu-xiaolan There's no 'built-in gamepad', so what exactly are you trying to do? It sounds to me like you've bought a prebuilt system, in which case you would have to seek out the maker for support.
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@thorr69 i believe you misunderstood, i bought the picade and had to build it myself and im having trouble with the joystick and 10 buttons that are provided with the casing, unless that might be a misunderstanding on my part
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Did you install any additional drivers to make the gamepad work ? If so, which one(s) ?
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@mitu sorry for late reply, im kind of a beginner so i wouldnt know off the top of my head but i've been formatting the SD card a lot so i dont think i've downloaded any additional drivers, all i've downloaded is the picade.dtbo file because my /boot/overlays/ didnt have one (that took me a while to find) and edited the config to add some 2 lines of text that i was told i need
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@xu-xiaolan I assume you followed the installation instructions from the picate-hat page ? If so, then the
.dtbowill configure the input for the HAT and there's no need for an additional driver.It looks to me that the input on the HAT is mapped to a keyboard - did you went through the controller configuration steps ? This should configure your gamepad in both EmulationStation and most emulators. What games have you tried starting and they're not working ?
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@mitu i've tried multiple SNES and N64 games such as Pokemon Fire/Red that the controls did not work, ill check out both pages and make sure that i've done them, ill be sure to notify as soon as im finished
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@mitu so uh, i followed through the picade.hat page, did the github clone thing and when rebooting the rainbow screen comes up, some lines go through and I'm met with a black screen, what now?
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@xu-xiaolan i believe this might be something to do with resolution so ill look around and see if i missed anything in the guide
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@xu-xiaolan omg I actually got it working, tyvm @mitu or I would've been very confused xd, I cloned the github, went to configs and allowed the safe hdmi option then I switched the HDMI port from 1 to 0 (right to left) if anyones wondering how i did it
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