Wired nintendo switch controller not working in game

makatack

Specs:
Raspberry pi 4
Retropie version 4.7.1
Controller is a wired Nintendo switch pro controller from power A
Retropie installed to micro sd card

Hi,
I have recently installed retropie onto my rpi4 and have set everything up. However when it comes to my controller it doesn't seem to run during a game despite being recognized and configured in the settings.

sirhenrythe5th

@makatack when you installed retropie recently, why a version which is 16 months old?
Why not the actual 4.8?

makatack

Hi sorry I looked at the wrong thing, it should be 4.8

mitu

@makatack said in Wired nintendo switch controller not working in game:

I have recently installed retropie onto my rpi4 and have set everything up. However when it comes to my controller it doesn't seem to run during a game despite being recognized and configured in the settings.

No all emulators are automatically configured from EmulationStation - what game/emulator are you starting and it's not working with your controller ?

makatack

@mitu I have only tried super bomberman 2

mitu

I assume this is the SNES Super Bomberman 2, which should use the lr-snes9x emulator - is that correct ?

When starting the game, does it prints any messages on the left bottom part of the screen about the controller being detected, but not configured ?

makatack

@mitu it says the name of the controller followed by it being
configured

mitu

Are you sure you haven't disabled the EmulationStation input auto-configuration ?

You can check if the configuration for the gamepad has been created, following your input configuration in EmulationStation, in the /opt/retropie/configs/al/retroarch-joypads folder. Same folder can be accessed via file shares at \\retropie\configs\all\retroarch-joypads and it should contain a .cfg file named similarly to your gamepad.

makatack

I have a .cfg file

makatack

What should I try now?

mitu

@makatack Can you post the contents of the .cfg file here ?

makatack

@mitu hi sorry just checking again should the .cig file be in configuration editor - advanced - Liberty options

mitu

@makatack No, I was referring to the .cfg file that should be found in \\retropie\configs\all\retroarch-joypads.
That is the file which RetroArch uses to configure the gamepad. Do you have a file there ? If so, you can open it with Notepad or other text editor and copy the contents, then paste the copied content here in the topic.

makatack

@mitu I am not quite sure on how to do that

mitu

@makatack Can you access your RetroPie via File Shares from your PC ? Then the same method can be used to access the configurations (the shared \\retropie\configs folder), where the gamepad configuration file is saved.

How did you copy the ROM file to you RetroPie installation ?

makatack

@mitu i copied it with usb

mitu

Is your Pi is not connected to the internet/network/WiFi ? You may try accessing it from your PC, as described in the File Shares page, this way you'll be able to find the file in question.
Try reconfiguring again your gamepad from EmulationStation, from the EmulationStation menu (accessible pressing the Start button), go to Configure Input and re-configure the gamepad. See if that changes anything when you start the game.