Please add some info about your setup, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Mapping are usually created based on the controller/gamepad name, so even if the gamepad disconnects and then re-connects the configuration would still work. I'm not familiar with Arcade1Up inputs - are they using an USB encoder for both players or each player is a separate controller ?

Get a powered USB hub and use it to connect the USB encoders to the Pi. The Pi may not be able to provide enough power for the encoders.

@chuckwurt said in Raspberry Pi 4 using 4 controllers Help:

I have a Pi 4 8 gig using emulation station and it’s in an arcade 1up.

Does this mean you're using RetroPie ? Please give more details about your system, as explained in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

When navigating the menus all controllers work fine. Once I enter a game to play, only the Logitech controllers work.

If the game is a max 2player game, then only the first 2 controllers will work. What game/emulator are you using ?

@ezra84 Not sure what error are you seeing. You should have deleted just the site from where you downloaded the image, not the rest. The post is ok now.

@bic said in Emulation Station Crashed!:

I'm running a raspberry pi 3b+ with retropie version 4.5.1 along with canakit power supply and image that I put together from a bunch of other images.

Use the image from retropie.org.uk/download, we don't provide support for 3rd party images.

@mitu Yep, been through all that already, I don't know what the deal is. I will take your advice and ask the author if he knows about it not working with 4.7.

@alphatoad We don't support 3rd party images, as outlined in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Ask the image author(s) for support or use the image from retropie.org.uk/download.

@Krakatoa Always glad to hear it!

@mitu @grant2258 thank you both for all your help. After I couldn’t get any of my controllers working, I imaged a new SD card and started fresh. I can successfully use the Dragonrise controllers. I’m thinking the problem may be permissions related as for some reason the default account (pi?) May have lost permissions to write config files. I’ll look into it.

Thanks again,

PacRat

It'll be a third USB device. It uses its own interface board, and wont work with the same boards you're going to be using with your joystick/buttons.

You'll have to see if the spinner you buy comes with one, or what board is recommended with that spinner.

@Darksavior awesome. Thanks for the help.

If the USB encoder makes all 7 buttons available, then you can navigate the UI and start games so it should be possible to make EmulationStation use it. As for the 2nd Player, you can use advmame for arcade emulation and it would be possible to split the encoder inputs to both, not sure about how practical it is though.

@Ohris what usb encoders are you using? because depending on what port you plug in controllers, decides the player number
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Port 0 has has highest priority for player 1

@ronbo85. Apologies. I haven't been on the forum in a long while. If you need any help with the ButtonMap work I did, post again. Agreed. I stopped at buttons, and never directly used controllers.xml...

Regarding FBI:
Take a look at the Python file: simpleServer.py on my github area.
These are the args I'm using to show the image.

sudo fbi -vt 1 -a --noverbose </path/to/image>

Hopefully one of these switches will help your scripting.
Cheers