OK, so reflashing the install seems to have worked. I'm not sure if the original 64gb microsd was too large, or if something else I did messed things up, but this time around I wasn't asked a second time to initialize my controller settings, and I was able to get a few minutes of Super Mario World running with the controller functioning properly.

But, thanks for the help, no wonder nobody else was having these problems.

@deadman3838 i can pretty much rule out the power supply then. I only use the canakit power supplies and i have had no issues.

I had the same issue, phantom inputs from ibuffalo controller in kodi and roms. When left alone after 10 minutes it would move on its own, not so bad for games, horrible for watching anything.

This fix worked for me, may not work for everyone. Basically on every button and direction I hit the clear button with it multiple times and havent had an issue with it in two days. Hope this helps.

@SutterKane

At the moment, the keyboard is totally ignored

Did you configure it? Where is it plugged in? Do you have enough power? What is the rating of your power supply?

Is there an additional setup to be done to get the Buffalo SNES controllers
working correctly ?

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration#hardcoded-configurations

Playing games via MAME

Which one? Have you set the controls using TAB? Is it a libretro emulator?

Start with this to save time....
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Hi!

What type of iBuffalo controller are you trying to setup? The famicom version (red and gold) or the snes version?

I started a new topic on this and I hope to get some replies to help me out... Are you still having this issue? If not how did you get it to work?

Thank you and have a nice day!

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