New controller issue - do not work in game

ufa

Hi,
I have the latest retropie installed on a Pi3, everything works wonderfully.
I have 2 snes cheap usb gamepad clones and a xbox360 wired and all work good.

But I have found a ps2 usb gamepad and I want to use it too. But it only works on ES. Retroarch does not seem to recognize it.
I have read some info on wiki and on Internet, but I am confused which way to go.

Is there some script that copy the ES controller config to retroarch? How can I force a reconfiguration of all controllers?

meleu

@ufa after configuring a joystick in emulationstation, it automatically creates a retroarch config file for this joystick and place this file at /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/YOUR_JOYSTICK_NAME.cfg. Try to check it.

ufa

@meleu said in New controller issue - do not work in game:

opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/YOUR_JOYSTICK_NAME.cfg

Hi,
thank you for your reply.

I have only 2 files in this directory:
XboxGamepad(userspacedriver).cfg and usbgamepad.cfg

But I have 4 controllers (2 snes clones, xbox wired and this ps2 usb)
Maybe it is using the same file for all usb controllers.

ufa

I have just notice tha retroarch says "gamepad not configured"

Is there a way to force ES to copy the gamepad configuration to retroarch

ufa

I made it work putting this file :
https://github.com/libretro/retroarch-joypad-autoconfig/blob/master/udev/GreenAsia_Inc.USB_Joystick_.cfg
on
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads

But shouldn't retropie create the file automagically? I did not create the others

meleu

@ufa said in New controller issue - do not work in game:

shouldn't retropie create the file automagically?

Only if you configure the respctive in ES.

ufa

@meleu I did, and it works in ES

ufa

Just an update.
NO controller is auto-detected anymore.
Is there a way I can reset all controller configurations? It seems that ES is not able to pass the controller configuration to retroarch anymore :(

To test it, I have deleted all the files in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads
it does not get populated anymore, no matter how many times I configure it on ES.

Is there a way to populate it by hand?

meleu

@ufa there's also a possibility that your global retroarch.cfg is not taking the joypad configs. The option is joypad_autoconfig_dir = "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/"

ufa

@meleu said in New controller issue - do not work in game:

retroarch

from /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg :

joypad_autoconfig_dir = "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/"

It is empty, because I deleted the config files, so it should be recreated, but it is not :(

BuZz

@ufa it won't be recreated unless you reinstall retroarch.

ufa

@BuZz How can it be done? Erasing all /opt/retropie/ ?

meleu

@ufa check if you have a retroarch.cfg.rp-dist and rename it to retroarch.cfg.

ufa

@meleu already did that. I did not touch that file btw.

joypad config dir is still empty. My problem is: how can I populate it?
Already reinstalled retroarch through setup script, still let me with an empty directory and non working joypads.

Every rom I start, it says with yellow subtitles: "gamepad lalala not configured"

ufa

Well, I think that will be a huge debugging work, so I think it is easier to just erase the /opt/retropie folder and reinstall everything and reconfiguring my shaders

Thank you all for the help on this matter

BuZz

@ufa if joypad folder is empty it's because you didn't configure the controller in emulationstation or you removed the es.input.cfg at some point, which would lose an important default config that is needed. You can reset es input config from retropie-setup

ufa

@BuZz thank you