So @ExarKunIv , just update emulationstation and it now magically works?? Sweet! And no, you were not alone! I actually thought my controller was defective because it was doing this same thing over several very different builds.

Is there a hack of something for Retropie that will allow the D-pad to work instead of the Analogue stick ?

@alturis said in AdvMAME 3.6 Input Issues with certain games: but they are nowhere near as convincing as the retroarch crt shaders. I would probably still be running advmame for everything if it weren’t for those shaders in RetroArch. This and better analog support is the reason lr-mame2003 became my default, but it was mostly for the shaders. Now, Advmame is primarily for vector on my cab until someone adds hi-res rendering to the vector video in 2003.

@alturis To my knowledge you can't, but I haven't put a lots of time into experimenting either. Acceleration, for example, seems to only affect the max speed. If you continue to test and find out something different, I'd be very interested.

@dudleydes Thanks I will check it out, my analog sticks were automatically configured too but I wanted to map the left analog to move and the right analog to aim/look. Maybe fiddling with the .cfg file could tell me more!

@adamspc Thank you. I did manage to get it working in the end, but unfortunately i had to revert back to the baked-in ADS1115/ADS1015 overlays to get the inputs to read correctly. For anyone who is having the same issues its worth having a read of this article: http://www.jumpnowtek.com/rpi/Using-ads1115-ADCs-with-Raspberry-Pis.html

So I ended up doing the following: I left the basic config in place. I then tested each game, changing the controller type to analog once the game was started and if it worked, I created a custom config for that game that has the player 1 and player 2 controller set to analog. So now each game works as it should, some work fine with the default settings and the d-pad only, others work with the analog stick. I couldn't find one blanket setting that worked for all games, I had to test each one and configure different options files for each game that supports the analog controller type. It took a good amount of time, but works like a charm now no matter what game my kid fires up on the unit.

Retropie detects 2 gamepads when I connect the Teensy with the 2 analog sticks, but I can't configure any input when I move the PSP sticks. Any idea? :/

@chubsta On another note - the NES30 is a fantastic controller (http://www.nes30.com/) I have both the NES30 and the NES30 Pros - I love the NES30 for NES/SNES games, it's well built, and responsive - NES30 Pro on the other hand, its only reason for existence is analog, and the analog is awful, and they feel kinda "meh" in your hands so they just sit in a drawer unused - PS3 controllers work great for analog stuff which is really only on N64/PS1 games in my case.

@darkblaster77 Sorry, I don't have an answer for you. How does yours compare to the one here https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Dreamcast ? I feel your pain, though. I can't get a single button to work with my ps4 controller. There was one combination of settings that got the dpad working, but generally nothing.

yes you can. Go to the retro pie menu, then configuration editor. from there go to advanced configuration, configure libretro options, then psx/retroarch.cfg. From there look for game_specific_options and set to true. Back out and when you go to the options where you set analog or not, there will be a new option on top to save that config for that one game. So you can set the games that need standard and save just that config for them or visa versa

@Dochartaigh via the configuration editor it can set them on a per core basis or in the global retroarch.cfg.