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

A Former User

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

@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

@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

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

ChristianG

@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

@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!

ChristianG

@TMNTturtlguy Thanks man. I have two restaurants and kids etc so I have poured through most of the material as I can find time. Ill just have to shelve this because it is consuming my life. When I get time to research more Ill see what I can do. I have spent hours upon hours watching videos and reading writeups. I have done hundreds of projects like this but I am finding retropie to be a little less ready for primetime than most freeware unless you are a coder. Just a lot to take in unless you do this for a living which i don't. I knew I should have went with the 60 in 1 jamma which I might just do. Like I said this software isn't ready for primetime I don't believe.

Thanks again.

TMNTturtlguy

@ChristianG sorry to hear your frustratioons. I disagree that retropie isn't ready for prime time. It is very simple and easy to set up if you follow the documents. As you said there are also good YouTube videos as well. I don't know of anything much cheaper or easier to use to create great setups. I am not sure where your roadblocks are coming from and I wish I could help more. It is never good to hear frustrations like yours.

I hope you don't give up and good luck with everything you have going on in life right now.

ChristianG

@TMNTturtlguy Success!! Something as simple as replacing the buttons on my arcade worked. I was using a kit that came with a board and Sanwa buttons for each player. I couldn't find one player / two player Sanwa buttons so I bought Happ and wired them onto the board. The Happs did work but I guess were the source of the issues. When I put Sanwa buttons in place of them everything works. So I'm sorry Retropie, this was an operator error :)

Thanks for all your help!

A Former User

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

I have been moving buttons and switching wires.

:P