Issue with 8bit Do SN30 Pro Bluetooth gamepad

IGA

Hardware: Pi 4 - 4gb
Power supply: 5V 3A Power Supply
RetroPie V.4.7.19
Built From: Pre made from RetroPie website pi4 image
USB: logitech keyboard
Controller: 8bit Do SN30 Pro Bluetooth gamepad
VideoOut: crt-tv via composite !

Hello!
Can't normally configurate this gamepad.
After pairing with retropie\raspberry in retopie setup\bluetooth I can't normally remap buttons in emulation station menu - both trigger buttons (R2 and L2) are undetected, when i press them nothing happens.

Gamepad is normal. It's work fine with PC or recalbox.

More of them - with this Bluetooth gamepad any rom started after 1 minute black screen. ( with my old 360gamepad games started immediately after loading screen)

IGA

Well, as i understood it's need to use pairing in Switch mode and all will ne fine...
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mitu

Pairing works also in XInput mode, but you have to install the xpadneo driver first, from RetroPie-Setup.

IGA

@mitu oh, thank you for information!

retropieuser555

8bitdo can be a little finicky (I have the pro 2, SNES FC30, g bros adapter and n64 mod kit) but thankfully they have 4 modes, I guess that controller is no different? I tend to use dinput and it works ok on RetroPie. Then use switch mode for my desktop computer

IGA

@mitu said in Issue with 8bit Do SN30 Pro Bluetooth gamepad:

Pairing works also in XInput mode, but you have to install the xpadneo driver first, from RetroPie-Setup.

Stop....

With Switch Pro Controller mode all button are work correctly but no vibration function. Vibration is absent :(

I've download xpadneo driver from drivers packages , remove Pro Controller from Bluetooth menu and pair gamepad again in Xinput mode .

The effect still the same - triggers L2 and R2 - doesn't work.
Why???

IGA

Still need a help.

How to make this gamepad normally work in Xinput mode?
Or how to get vibration in switch pro controller or Dinput modes?

retropieuser555

@IGA Which games/cores/emulators are you trying to get force feedback on?

mitu

Make sure you have an up-to-date RetroPie installation, otherwise you'll get an outdated xpadneo driver.

After you paired it via Bluetooth, test the controller with jstest and see if L/R are detected. Run from the command line (either from the console or via SSH.

jstest /dev/input/js0

and press the buttons to see if they register. You can interrupt the test by pressing Ctrl-C.

IGA

@retropieuser555 said in Issue with 8bit Do SN30 Pro Bluetooth gamepad:

@IGA Which games/cores/emulators are you trying to get force feedback on?

dreamcast\ps1: PCSX ReARMed\ duckstation. Redream for dreamcast. Any games that supported it...

IGA

@mitu could you remind how to up date installation - i've forgot (i don't need and want update all retropie at all, cause now after my last update work fine and i don't want to configure something again, that could need to be configurated after new update or something else - i just need update installer only to install new xpadneo)

IGA

@mitu said in Issue with 8bit Do SN30 Pro Bluetooth gamepad:

After you paired it via Bluetooth, test the controller with jstest and see if L/R are detected. Run from the command line (either from the console or via SSH.

I don't see the point - at Switch or Dinput this buttons are work...

IGA

but i've try - and what I need to get?!

mitu

@IGA said in Issue with 8bit Do SN30 Pro Bluetooth gamepad:

I don't see the point - at Switch or Dinput this buttons are work...

Ok then.

IGA

@mitu said in Issue with 8bit Do SN30 Pro Bluetooth gamepad:

Ok then.

And what so? ))

retropieuser555

@IGA With the force feedback, i'll remind myself how to set that up for my 8bitdo Pro 2 as it should probably be the same as the older version. What firmware are you on btw? And force feedback works on windows in retroarch or redream or any other emulators?

IGA

@retropieuser555 said in Issue with 8bit Do SN30 Pro Bluetooth gamepad:

What firmware are you on btw? And force feedback works on windows in retroarch or redream or any other emulators?

At windows and retroarch feedback works well as a retropie with Xinput (but in Xinput mode emulation station on retopie can't recognize both triggers buttons). At micro-sd flash card with recalbox all work fine too - and vibration and all buttons

How find out what a firmware in btw? What is btw?))

IGA

@mitu said in Issue with 8bit Do SN30 Pro Bluetooth gamepad:

Make sure you have an up-to-date RetroPie installation, otherwise you'll get an outdated xpadneo driver.

Well, i've go to retropie setup, then make Update Retropie-Setup script. Go to mange packages\manage drivers packages and remove xpadneo. Then install once again - got:

Package Origin: source
Build Date: 2023-11-08T12:13:38+00:00

Built from source via:

Type: git
URL: https://github.com/atar-axis/xpadneo.git
Branch: v.0.9.5
Commit: d2453218678cd5069be0c51f331593b98ace6f62
Date: 2022-09-17T22:39:22+02:00

triggers still not recognized in Xinput mode....

retropieuser555

@IGA Just had a quick google, does this solve your problem?

You mentioned you're using lr-pcsx2-rearmed and duckstation, do you mean lr-duckstation? Also in redream's menu can you map your controller triggers manually? As it seems the issue is in emulationstation rather than retroarch. And given L2 R2 don't do a lot in emulationstation you don't really need them working.

IGA

@retropieuser555 said in Issue with 8bit Do SN30 Pro Bluetooth gamepad:

As it seems the issue is in emulationstation rather than retroarch.

yes. Exactly in emulationstation cause i can't remap l2 and r2 in menu of E.S. And seems to be xinput driver too,

About this video tutorial fix - is bad solution for me, cause i use several 360 gamepads, that work correctly, and when i need or want to choose them i'll need to remap buttons in retroarch each time again - it's sucks

Why at recalbox this gamepad work fine by default? - maybe i should took some drivers files from there and replaced them on retropie or something like this??

@retropieuser555 said in Issue with 8bit Do SN30 Pro Bluetooth gamepad:

Also in redream's menu can you map your controller triggers manually?

And even does it is worked i won't do like this - cause i wan't remap buttons each time in each emulators when i want to use any others gamepads - it's nconvenient. For a what? - Xinput there , and Xinput there - all layout the same - comfortable. But if use Dinput, yes, in this way we need change all layout buttons. That why nobody use D input now.

Ok. maye if no methods to solve problem with Xinput, maybe there are methods to get vibration in Switch mode on Retropie?