Emulation Station crashes on startup if arcade joystick is connected

FraIgna

Hello everyone,
I'm new to Retropie and this fantastic community in particular.
I was able to install Retropie on Ubuntu and get it run. Now I have two arcade sticks connected by usb. When I start Retropie, Emulation Station crashes. If the sticks are not connected, ES works.
Is there a way to solve the problem?

Setup:
Hardware: PC desktop (4gb ram, CPU G2030, Intel Grphics 2500)
RetroPie Version: 4.8 - x86 - on ubuntu 20.04.4
USB Devices connected: EG Starts Arcade sticks x 2, mouse and keyboard
Error messages received: "Emulation Station Crashed!"

Thanks for your help!

mitu

This usually happens if the gamepads are constantly disconnecting. ES crashes during the scan for joysticks, since they 'disappear' immediately.

Try the advice from https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/31488/. Run, from the terminal

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/rp-usbhid-quirks.conf

and add to the file:

options usbhid quirks=0x0079:0x0006:0x400

save the file (Ctrl+X) and reboot. See if - after the reboot - the controllers are detected by EmulationStation and you can configure them.

FraIgna

@mitu said in Emulation Station crashes on startup if arcade joystick is connected:

This usually happens if the gamepads are constantly disconnecting. ES crashes during the scan for joysticks, since they 'disappear' immediately.

Try the advice from https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/31488/. Run, from the terminal
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/rp-usbhid-quirks.conf
and add to the file:
options usbhid quirks=0x0079:0x0006:0x400
save the file (Ctrl+X) and reboot. See if - after the reboot - the controllers are detected by EmulationStation and you can configure them.

Thanks for your reply. However, the other post you shared mentions another file to edit. Which file I should modify?
I'm sorry but I'm a total dumb when it comes to Ubuntu

Thanks!

mitu

@FraIgna There's no /boot/cmdline.txt on a PC, that's a Raspberry PI specific bootloader configuration. Editing the file I mentioned will have the same effect. You can also modify the Grub's configuration file and pass the usbhid module quirks to the kernel options, but that's slightly more involved.

FraIgna

@mitu Thanks for specifying.
I did what you suggested, however I still get the same issue.

Any thoughts?

mitu

@FraIgna said in Emulation Station crashes on startup if arcade joystick is connected:

Any thoughts?

Replace the sticks with a pair that doesn't have this issue ?

FraIgna

@mitu Fair enough...just don't want to bin them.
Thanks for you help!