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    setup SNES Style USB gamepad on RetroPie 4.8.6 on PI 5- 8 Gb

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    • H
      hogger
      last edited by

      I have installed a faceless Raspberry Pi OS Lite and RetroPie 4.8.6 on PI 5- 8 Gb and setup SNES Style USB gamepad it works fine to navigate RetroPie menus. but not when a game is started. I have 2 gamepad config files is this normal?
      TA
      one is
      input_device = "USB Gamepad"
      input_driver = "udev"
      input_vendor_id = "121"
      input_product_id = "17"

      and the 2nd one is the mapping
      input_left_axis = "-0"
      input_left_axis_label = "Dpad Left"
      input_state_slot_decrease_axis = "-0"
      input_right_axis = "+0"
      input_right_axis_label = "Dpad Right"
      input_state_slot_increase_axis = "+0"
      input_r_btn = "5"
      input_r_btn_label = "R"
      input_save_state_btn = "5"
      input_down_axis = "+1"
      input_down_axis_label = "Dpad Down"
      input_l_btn = "4"
      input_l_btn_label = "L"
      input_load_state_btn = "4"
      input_y_btn = "3"
      input_y_btn_label = "Y"
      input_x_btn = "0"
      input_menu_toggle_btn = "0"
      input_b_btn = "2"
      input_reset_btn = "2"
      input_a_btn = "1"
      input_up_axis = "-1"
      input_up_axis_label = "Dpad Up"
      input_select_btn = "8"
      input_start_btn = "9"
      input_exit_emulator_btn = "9"
      input_enable_hotkey_btn = "9"

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      • windgW
        windg
        last edited by windg

        Do you have install the xpad driver? If not, install it and configure again the controller, i hope it works.

        My English isn't at a good level.

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          hogger @windg
          last edited by hogger

          @windg said in setup SNES Style USB gamepad on RetroPie 4.8.6 on PI 5- 8 Gb:

          install the xpad driver

          I did a clean install of everything and forgot to install xpad driver
          but now that I Have installed it,I have the same results.

          when I start the emulator it says "USB game gad configured on port 1"
          but doesn't work to control the game

          thanks again

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          • windgW
            windg @hogger
            last edited by

            @hogger After you install the driver did you reconfigure your controller ?

            My English isn't at a good level.

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              hogger @windg
              last edited by hogger

              @windg Yes Sir. I even tired remove the existing retroarch.cfg from /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg and re-install RetroArch and reconfiguring the controller again as seen in another post

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator
                last edited by mitu

                The problem is that you have 2 config files, both incomplete.
                The 1st one contains the VID/PID and the name of the device and it's loaded by RetroArch, but it doesn't have any mapping for the buttons/d-pad. The 2nd one contains the mappings, but doesn't have the VID/PID and it's probably not loaded by RetroArch since it does't recognize the device name. I bet the actual name is something like USB Gamepad (with multiple spaces at the end) and RetroArch looks for USB Gamepad .cfg, while your config file is USB Gamepad.cfg (no spaces befor the extension).

                What are the names of the .cfg files ? Can you run the command

                cat /proc/bus/input/devices

                and post the output ?

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                  hogger @mitu
                  last edited by

                  @mitu thanks I will take a look and post my findings.I'm just a noob that been read my A$$ off and after futher review I notice the USB drive I set up with SSH and a userconfig.txt to store my roms also now has a BIOS and configs file that contain emulationstation and retroarch config file. so what files are being used? config file from my SD OS card or the file on the USB drive?

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                    hogger @mitu
                    last edited by

                    @mitu The name of the config file are 'USB Gamepad .cfg' there is a space between Gamepad and .cfg which only contains VID/PID and NO mapping
                    The other 'USB Gamepad.cfg' which contains VID/PID and plus mapping
                    Here is the output cat /proc/bus/input/devices
                    I: Bus=0003 Vendor=1c4f Product=0002 Version=0110
                    N: Name="SIGMACHIP USB Keyboard"
                    P: Phys=usb-xhci-hcd.0-1/input0
                    S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/axi/1000120000.pcie/1f00200000.usb/xhci-hcd.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/0003:1C4F:0002.0001/input/input0
                    U: Uniq=
                    H: Handlers=sysrq kbd leds event0
                    B: PROP=0
                    B: EV=120013
                    B: KEY=1000000000007 ff800000000007ff febeffdff3cfffff fffffffffffffffe
                    B: MSC=10
                    B: LED=7

                    I: Bus=0003 Vendor=1c4f Product=0002 Version=0110
                    N: Name="SIGMACHIP USB Keyboard Consumer Control"
                    P: Phys=usb-xhci-hcd.0-1/input1
                    S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/axi/1000120000.pcie/1f00200000.usb/xhci-hcd.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.1/0003:1C4F:0002.0002/input/input1
                    U: Uniq=
                    H: Handlers=kbd event1
                    B: PROP=0
                    B: EV=1f
                    B: KEY=306ff 0 0 483ffff17aff32d bfd4444600000000 1 130c730b17c000 267bfad9415fed 9e168000004400 10000002
                    B: REL=1040
                    B: ABS=100000000
                    B: MSC=10

                    I: Bus=0003 Vendor=1c4f Product=0002 Version=0110
                    N: Name="SIGMACHIP USB Keyboard System Control"
                    P: Phys=usb-xhci-hcd.0-1/input1
                    S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/axi/1000120000.pcie/1f00200000.usb/xhci-hcd.0/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.1/0003:1C4F:0002.0002/input/input2
                    U: Uniq=
                    H: Handlers=kbd event3
                    B: PROP=0
                    B: EV=13
                    B: KEY=c000 10000000000000 0
                    B: MSC=10

                    I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
                    N: Name="pwr_button"
                    P: Phys=gpio-keys/input0
                    S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/pwr_button/input/input4
                    U: Uniq=
                    H: Handlers=kbd event4
                    B: PROP=0
                    B: EV=3
                    B: KEY=10000000000000 0

                    I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0079 Product=0011 Version=0110
                    N: Name="USB Gamepad "
                    P: Phys=usb-xhci-hcd.0-2/input0
                    S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/axi/1000120000.pcie/1f00200000.usb/xhci-hcd.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/0003:0079:0011.0004/input/input5
                    U: Uniq=
                    H: Handlers=event2 js0
                    B: PROP=0
                    B: EV=1b
                    B: KEY=3ff00000000 0 0 0 0
                    B: ABS=3
                    B: MSC=10

                    I: Bus=0003 Vendor=1c4f Product=0034 Version=0110
                    N: Name="SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse"
                    P: Phys=usb-xhci-hcd.1-2/input0
                    S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/axi/1000120000.pcie/1f00300000.usb/xhci-hcd.1/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/0003:1C4F:0034.0005/input/input6
                    U: Uniq=
                    H: Handlers=mouse0 event5
                    B: PROP=0
                    B: EV=17
                    B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0
                    B: REL=903
                    B: MSC=10

                    I: Bus=001e Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0001
                    N: Name="vc4-hdmi-0"
                    P: Phys=vc4-hdmi-0/input0
                    S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/soc/107c701400.hdmi/rc/rc0/input7
                    U: Uniq=
                    H: Handlers=kbd event6
                    B: PROP=20
                    B: EV=100017
                    B: KEY=ffffc000000000 3ff 0 400000320fc200 40830c900000000 0 210300 49d2c040ec00 1e378000000000 8010000010000000
                    B: REL=3
                    B: MSC=10

                    I: Bus=001e Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0001
                    N: Name="vc4-hdmi-1"
                    P: Phys=vc4-hdmi-1/input0
                    S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/soc/107c706400.hdmi/rc/rc1/input8
                    U: Uniq=
                    H: Handlers=kbd event7
                    B: PROP=20
                    B: EV=100017
                    B: KEY=ffffc000000000 3ff 0 400000320fc200 40830c900000000 0 210300 49d2c040ec00 1e378000000000 8010000010000000
                    B: REL=3
                    B: MSC=10

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                      hogger @mitu
                      last edited by

                      @mitu Ok Thank again you guys are awsome >this was driving me nuts. I just deleted the 'USB Gamepad .cfg' and MV (renamed) the 'USB Gamepad.cfg' to 'USB Gamepad .cfg' (with spaces before the extension). have no Idea how a got the 2 config files.but it seems to work now

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