Buffalo Controllers Phantom Inputs
-
@AlexMurphy ;) I think you know what I meant.
-
@obsidianspider No, I do not, Sir. I demand satisfaction!
-
@ucbn Yes i think so. Have a look in the thread Gamepads making involuntary movements in Emulation Station especially look for post by @dankcushions
-
Great, thanks. Can anyone else confirm that a powered USB hub would do the trick -- @obsidianspider or @SkittleBrau79 have either of you tried this?
Would hate to buy yet another thing for these controllers, only to see it fail :-\
-
@ucbn I have seen this behavior as well. I had 2 iBuffalo pads connected (directly to the Rpi3) and started noticing the random emulation station menu scroll sometimes after quitting a game. It was usually pretty minor, maybe one game down in the menu - or one system to the left, or something like that. I don't recall noticing in games but I started troubleshooting as soon as I noticed it in ES. It's possible though.
After reading here it sounded like some felt it to be a hardware issue with that specific gamepad, but not necessarily all of them (some do it, some don't). I'm sure there was a thread suggesting it to be a possible hardware issue/bug with those specific pads.
So I disconnected one of them, and within the day noticed the problem was still there. So I swapped to the other one, and since that time I haven't seen it happen (through probably a month of use now). I'm thinking it may have only been the one pad that had the problem. I have not reconnected the possible "bad" one yet but when I do I will report back.
-
@ucbn I don't have a powered USB hub to try it with, and none would work with any of the projects I've built anyway.
-
@AlexMurphy you think you're better than Mick Jagger? ;)
-
@RumblinBuffalo said in Buffalo Controllers Phantom Inputs:
So I disconnected one of them, and within the day noticed the problem was still there. So I swapped to the other one, and since that time I haven't seen it happen (through probably a month of use now). I'm thinking it may have only been the one pad that had the problem. I have not reconnected the possible "bad" one yet but when I do I will report back.
Reconnected the second iBuffalo gamepad today for some 2-player gaming and it appears that some ghost inputs returned along with it. This was noticed in actual gameplay (MAME - Wizard of Wor). Player 2 character moved on his own up/down.
Not much help - just pointing out in my case one controller appears to works fine, and the other doesn't (at least for now). I've never tried anything to fix it other than maybe re calibrate and disconnect/reconnect.
-
Just in case anyone stumbles upon this thread, I wanted to give an update that the Powered USB Hub seemed to solve most of the issue. There will still be a stray input every now and then, but definitely not every couple of minutes like I was previously seeing.
I want to emphasize that it requires a POWERED hub, as I tried multiple non-powered hubs to no avail. Also, not all powered hubs work with the Pi v3, particularly the ones that are 3.0. Here is a 2.0 hub that I purchased after scouring various forums, and it is working fine (it can also apparently power the Pi itself, which I can't confirm since I originally purchased a kit with an adapter):
Hope this helps.
-
None of this explains how even WIRELESS controllers (like 8BitDo/PS/Xbox) can STILL have these phantom inputs.... I think it's a larger problem than a simple powered USB hub or whatnot. (although my problem(s) are things like the up or down button being held down when I'm not holding them down - especially when going from one system's gamelist to another - don't know if that's "phantom input" but I'm certainly not touching any keys... ;)
-
@Dochartaigh ps4 pad as soon as i switch it on (usb wired snes pad connected already no issues mostly) will start skipping
-
I've been reading these posts about phantom inputs thinking that "ah well, at least it doesn't happen to me". However, earlier on I had left the pi idle in EmulationStation for quite some time....The third party PS3 controller had gone to sleep (it will not respond again until you press the home button to connect again)....I noticed in the corner of my eye that the ES screen brightened and saw that it had moved down a ROM in the list....
Could it be some 2.4ghz rogue signal or something?
-
@tashman Sounds like a ghost...
-
@AlexMurphy I'll get the ouija board out and see what roms it selects....
-
Just a weird observation - I just started messing with my Pi 3 again after a couple months of it gathering dust - and the phantom inputs (especially on the iBuffalo) are WAY worse than my Pi Zero's which are using a NON-powered USB hub...totally weird. I'll bet if I use one of my older images this problem will nearly go away as I've NEVER seen it this bad (I'm using the newest most-recent/updated version of Retropie 4.1.19?)
-
I had the same issue, phantom inputs from ibuffalo controller in kodi and roms. When left alone after 10 minutes it would move on its own, not so bad for games, horrible for watching anything.
This fix worked for me, may not work for everyone. Basically on every button and direction I hit the clear button with it multiple times and havent had an issue with it in two days. Hope this helps.
Contributions to the project are always appreciated, so if you would like to support us with a donation you can do so here.
Hosting provided by Mythic-Beasts. See the Hosting Information page for more information.