Setting controls for "Arcade" and Emulation Station not working help!

ChristianG · 2 Jul 2017, 03:19

@TMNTturtlguy What command do I hit to reinstall all software for retropie?

TMNTturtlguy · 2 Jul 2017, 03:26

@ChristianG for full instructions go to the documents on this site and read about updating.

Go to the retropie menu. Retropie setup. Manage packages. Manage core packages. Retroarch(installed). Once there choose to update. When it is finished exit out and choose to perform reboot.

ChristianG · 2 Jul 2017, 03:27

@TMNTturtlguy ok ill give it a shot.

My whole arcade is pretty useless now. Crazy....

ChristianG · 2 Jul 2017, 03:30

@TMNTturtlguy update from binary or source? I think binary no?

TMNTturtlguy · 2 Jul 2017, 03:32

@ChristianG binary should be fine.

TMNTturtlguy · 2 Jul 2017, 03:33

@TMNTturtlguy after you installed did you update all packages? That is typically the first thing you should do.

ChristianG · 2 Jul 2017, 03:38

@TMNTturtlguy yes. Should retroarch say no information available when you hit menu items in it? I hit select x while in game to bring it up. if i goto the setting tab or any tab it basically says that. Nothing works.

ChristianG · 2 Jul 2017, 03:41

@TMNTturtlguy Basically I can't configure anything even if i am in it.

ChristianG · 2 Jul 2017, 03:41

@TMNTturtlguy is there code I can just goto and edit?

ChristianG · 2 Jul 2017, 05:59

@TMNTturtlguy Does the Raspberry Pi3 have any internal memory? It is not remembering anything like controllers etc from past setups?

I don't know why no matter how many installs I am not getting a fresh start with everything working like i did before.

edmaul69 · 2 Jul 2017, 07:07

@ChristianG no the pi itself does not have any memory that stores info. If you do a fresh install there is nothing old stored anywhere on the pi or sd card. If you are using an external hard drive then the config could be on there.

TMNTturtlguy · 2 Jul 2017, 11:54

@ChristianG when you go into retroarch do you go to quick menu, you should hit select x to go into retroarch and then quick menu and the controls. You should have a menu to set your controls there. You then need to save your changes to core.

ChristianG · 2 Jul 2017, 15:36

@TMNTturtlguy thanks ill give that a try..

ChristianG · 2 Jul 2017, 15:42

@edmaul69 Thanks for the info. I did a few new reinstalls on micro sd with formatting and writing the disk image. Once your in a newly installed retropie image, it asks for controllers so I add both of my one player and two player controls. Then I add keyboard. Everything works.

So once games are installed, what is the normal protocol to setup your joysticks etc in lets say arcade or nintendo 64? Should they be read because you set them up in Emulation Station?

Do you go to retropie/retroarch setting and adjust there or are you supposed to do it in game?

I must be doing something wrong here. Everything worked the first time i did all this until something went wrong. Now things are just not working in game.

A Former User · 7 Feb 2017, 17:08

I must be doing something wrong here. Everything worked the first time i did all this until something went wrong. Now things are just not working in game.

Are you sure it's not just hardware issue? In your first post you said you reconnected some stuff. What controllers do you use?

TMNTturtlguy · 2 Jul 2017, 16:13

@arkive if you keep reading he is using a USB encoder recognized as dragon rise. He also did a greasy install and full update. He had them working before. I also use dragonrise and I have a 4 controller setup and mine works great.

A Former User · 2 Jul 2017, 16:33

@TMNTturtlguy said in Setting controls for "Arcade" and Emulation Station not working help!:

he is using a USB encoder recognized as dragon rise.

Ah, not really my field then, I'm using a Dualshock. However the non-working-sticks sounds familiar to the problem I had at the beginning: my d-pad worked, but the sticks did not. Solved by going into Retropie -> Configuration Editor -> conf basic libretro -> conf default options -> player 1 use analogue stick: choose a value (in my case left).

It's a long shot, but you never know.

TMNTturtlguy · 2 Jul 2017, 16:59

@arkive the dragonrise should recognize as a keyboard. The joystick should be set to dpad up, down, left, right.

ChristianG · 3 Jul 2017, 05:13

@TMNTturtlguy When copying over roms to their appropriate folder, do you also have to copy over other files in order for the controllers to work with that game? So lets say I move over some game files to the arcade folder, should the single game file be sufficient for it to work? Sometimes they have bios folders etc. I remember that I thought that these other files might be corrupt so I just copied over the game file nothing else in the folder if it had any other files.

Thanks.

TMNTturtlguy · 3 Jul 2017, 11:27

@ChristianG your question is to open ended. It depend on what emulator you are using. For the most part you just need roms, but for some you need a bios folder. This is all clearly stated in the documents. Your roms should be single files for most systems, like nes, arcade, n64....the ones you have been asking about. If you have more than one rom file you may want to get your roms from a different source. I can't expand on that any further per forum rules.

I don't want to be rude made really want to help you, but at this point I suggest you start over from scratch. Read the documents first and understand what you are doing. Then after reading the docs, go back to the very first getting started doc and follow the steps one by one to correctly set up your system. It is clear that you haven't read through this information and don't have an understanding of your project yet. If you do this it should go a lot smoother and then you can come back and post more questions with any new issues. Thanks and good luck!