Adding a new controller!

meleu

@kage916 said in Adding a new controller!:

I wish someone could post like a YouTube walkthrough video of what to do.

The searching terms I suggested you took me to this thread, which took me to this YouTube video:

Believe in the forum's search engine. Can you see that being ~~annoying~~ rigorous with the forum quality inevitably makes the quality of the forum good? :-)

kage916

@meleu This is 3.3, I have 4.1, and do not have an option that says edit retropie/retroarch configurations. Where do I change this in 4.1?

meleu

@kage916 this option isn't on the emulationstation RetroPie menu, but you can access it via RetroPie-Setup. More info here:
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Configuration-Editor/

kage916

@meleu I promise you, I am not an idiot. I'm sure it looks like I am one, but I am literally doing everything in these tutorials and getting nowhere. I even went in and set that specific controller under Choose joypad order, and it still is saying it is not configured, I am so upset right now it's unreal. I would facetime with someone if they'd let me to get this crap solved!

kage916

@meleu If we could communicate through email instead of here on the forum maybe that's a better idea for everyone. I hate to keep posting stuff, but I'm seriously at a crossroads where I have done literally everything that has been posted or shown in a video and am getting nowhere.

Padge35

@kage916 I had same problem I set it up and go to play a game and wouldn't work then I went back to the first screen press start and bring up the menu and configure input again and it worked so hope this works for you

kage916

@Padge35 That did not work for me. I don't know what is going on. I've followed every tutorial and thread on here and nothing it working.

Padge35

@kage916 turn the system off and unplug controller turn system back on and once loaded insert controller again and retry the last step I said going to main menu configure input

kage916

@Padge35 Once I turn the system off, insert the controller, configure it, and once I open a game, it still says it isn't configured. I have literally tried it all

Padge35

@kage916 what controller you using? I've had problems allday trying to get it to work and now finally got it working by doing the steps I said

kage916

@Padge35 it's an iBuffalo SNES controller. It detects it, I can configure it, and once I start up a SNES rom, or any rom for that matter, in yellow in the bottom corner it tells me it is not configured.

Padge35

@kage916 did you put controller back in when u turned it off. All after u powered it back up like I said?

Padge35

@kage916 I'm using ps3 control but if it recognises it like u said it should be ok.

kage916

@Padge35 The only controller that works is the one that I used when I launched retropie for the very first time, any other controllers do not work

kage916

@Padge35 Yes I did, I have tried so many different things and none of them ever end up with it staying configured once I launch a rom

Padge35

@kage916 sorry bruv I don't know what else to tell you.

meleu

@kage916 I think you f#$%ed up many of your system's specific config files after enabling config_save_on_exit option and it's making the solutions you're trying useless (if you wanna know why it's a bad practice, check this post).

If you are not comfortable with Linux commands to recover the retroarch.cfg.rp-dist files, I suggest a fresh install and start it again.

kage916

@meleu Would you be able to send me a step by step to recover it. I would prefer not to do a fresh install and start all over again in fear of screwing things up even further.

kage916

@meleu Or a tutorial for doing the fresh install and starting again. Had a friend who did the initial installation for me, watched him step by step and could probably do it again, but just need to know what all I need to do to completely start it all over.

meleu

@kage916 said in Adding a new controller!:

@meleu Or a tutorial for doing the fresh install and starting again.

This is the best decision!!! There are nice tutorials on youtube! I specially like those from @herb_fargus , @Floob and @ETAPRIME .

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