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    Icade Core USB mod

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      Daverey1956
      last edited by Daverey1956

      I built me a pretty nice retropie retro console. Running MAME, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Colecovision, Sega Master system & Mega Drive, plus NES & SNES systems. Works fine with generic SNES controllers, and Genesis controller. I use a keyboard only for MAME coin and player start and Colecovision for player menu screen and to exit games. I have a Icade Core bluetooth controller for Ipad. The bluetooth board went bad so I decided to do a USB mod using the Easyget zero delay arcade usb encoder. Bought it from amazon. Hooked up up to my Retropie system, assigned joystick and buttons using emulation station joystick setup. Everything works fine in menu scrolling (up, down, left,right) buttons. But the joystick only works correctly in Atari 2600. Have no up & down control in MAME and other emulators. So would appreciate some help on how to set controller up correctly. I posted some pics of the Icade mod.

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        Kristopherson05
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        Hey Daverey, I had the same probleme as you when I got my easy get arcade Usb encoder. How I fixed it is that I flipped my joystick 90 degrees to the right. I figured it out because in the controller config, when it said to push up, I pushed up but it said I right. This works for all the systems that I have used except mame. Hope it helps!

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        • jmgomezgJ
          jmgomezg
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          Hi both, not sure if you sorted this issue since the post is 4 months old, but I also reused an iCade, removed the bluetooth controller and replace with a USB one (Dragonrise Inc. gamepad controller), to me this was all working fine using retropie 3.4, but as soon as I updated (I even tried a clean retropie 4.1), the up&down joystick didn't work on mame4all, it does work on the main UI and all other emulators I tried (nes, snes, n64).

          I'm reverting back to retropie 3.4 so I will post here if it works.

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          • spannernick1S
            spannernick1
            last edited by

            Don't know if this will help but you can change the way the joystick or pad is by going into retroarch-joypads and editing the cfg file for the controller.

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            • jmgomezgJ
              jmgomezg @spannernick1
              last edited by

              @spannernick1 thanks, I tried quite a few things, all included on this other thread:

              https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/1686/up-down-y-axis-not-working-in-3-8/91

              None worked for me unfortunately (or I didn't do properly?), so far I went back to retropie 3.4 and all works as expected. One of the things I noted is when configuring the controller, on 3.8 or 4.1 up & down were reported as +3 and -3, and left & right as +1 and -1, but on 3.4 it's reported differently.

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              • spannernick1S
                spannernick1
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                If its working fine in 3.4 and not working in newer versions of RetroPie then its a bug. Report it as a bug and see if anyone can fix it.

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