@chip

As long as you stick to systems that use a directional pad and two buttons or less, you shouldn't have any problems whatsoever. Fortunately you have a pretty big variety there with nes, sms, pcengine, gameboy/color, gamegear, ngpc and just about every atari option, as well as a pretty big selection of arcade titles.

@ZEL-SK8 It totally is possible! But please look it up first. A quick google search can solve most of your problems. I beleive it is call retrogame.

@Hex @zulorumX
Take a look around here In last posting @meleu and me did resolve some problems with shutdown and escape emulators by GPIO signal.

@PECONAUT

That would seem to indicate that it's not registering a joystick event at all, or at least not correctly. If that's the case, I don't think there's much that can be done. It's unfortunate, but third party console controllers are always in danger of limited compatibility outside of their own ecosystem.

Ressurecting this topic because I noticed that after I upgraded to RPi 4.5 that the speed cheat in Ms pac-man stopped working altogether. I checked the inputs on the TAB menu and button B isn't listed there. There are no dipswitch settings for it, either. I am curious if this is a driver change or if it's something that got broken in the update?

@neonlightning

The 8bitdo controllers have different pairing modes.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/149216

This worked for me!

Thanks guys. I went ahead and ordered the Suzo Happ longstem buttons and the Sanwa joysticks. I am excited for them to come in and I can experiment with getting everything wired up.

Any thoughts or insight as to whether or not I'll be able to utilize USB controllers if desired?

@maksi opens the RGUI menu - https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/retroarch-configuration

For example... you don't mention what USB controller board you are using.

I am using 2 x Sanwa JLF joysticks via an Ultimarc IPAC2. But I'm not going to explain at length what you need to do if you're not even using the same board :P

@grale22 And remember that Arcade is a folder, not an emulator so it's important to know which emulator you are dealing with. See here:
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/MAME#arcade

@Kristopherson05 You have duplicated your question. You have asked this in this thread:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5145/escape and you still don't provide ALL the information as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

misc_safequit = no

Where have you added this? What guide did you follow (if any) and have you posted the config to pastebin so that it can be inspected?

P.S. I have just read through some of your previous posts since July and numerous people have continually pointed you to read the https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first yet it looks like you still haven't done so. Don't be surprised if your posts go ignored if you continue to ask random questions without providing the required information or taking the time to search this forum first.

@M0nKeY Better than using a static address though for me, but I agree it's not ideal - I will sort this out eventually - I just have little time for doing the website on top of everything else. Cheers!

Solved it.
I opened the config TAB menu of the MAME emulator.

The mapping was messed up for some reason.
Here is how it looked like for the first 4 buttons of Player 1

P1 button 1 = LCTRL or RetroPad1 B (This one is correct)
P1 button 2 = LALT or RetroPad1 Y (This one is also fine)
P1 button 3 = SPACE or RetroPad1 X (This one is supposed to be mapped to LSHIFT)
P1 button 4 = LSHIFT or RetroPad1 A (This one is supposed to be mapped to SPACE)

Buttons 3 and 4 are rightfully mapped as RetroPad X and A, but for some reason, the first values (SPACE and LSHIFT) were switched.
What I did is to edit the value by hand with the keyboard.

If you compare the mapping for the X and A buttons with the MAME retroarch.cfg you will notice the difference.
input_player1_a = "space"
input_player1_x = "shift"

Have no clue why this happened, but it works now. :)

The behavior I'm seeing now a days is consistent between EmulationStation and the RetroPie-Setup Script. The big outlier for me is the Raspi-Config menu being the opposite of everything else. Has anyone discovered a way to swap the confirm/cancel button behavior for Raspi-Config?

Hello,

I also bought by buttons and sticks on arcadeworldUK.com I recommend this store and they're present in UK / London as far as I know.

I figured this out and wrote up a basic script to turn the backlight on and off for my secondary display. It's in a post in my Super Famicom build thread.