@dankcushions Right but I had the same problem with pi2. This is very similar...

In the emulator, i got something like this: Xbox 360 Controller (userspace ) loaded.

thanks anyway.......

I have that controller and found one that has a similar issue. I found that the potetiomimter is bad and reads the opposite direction for the slightest push but corrects itself as you move past the “dead zone”. But it did it only in the up direction. Unforutally es reads that dead zone and registers the wrong direction when your trying to Configure. I say bad controller

It was the joystick. I just realized I've only been testing with one controller with many receivers. Problem solved