@michael40475 You could do the same way most people do here: burn a clean Retropie image into another SD Card, put into your RPi, put your games on it and enjoy.

thank you

@rbaker said in 2 player start button?:

What is in your retroarch.cfg file regarding player two controls? Did you add them?

Please answer this ^^^^^^^^^^ the file is located at /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

do you see entires that reference player two?

input_player2_a = "x" input_player2_b = "z" input_player2_y = "a" input_player2_x = "s" input_player2_start = "enter" input_player2_select = "rshift" input_player2_l = "q" input_player2_r = "w" input_player2_left = "left" input_player2_right = "right" input_player2_up = "up" input_player2_down = "down"

Have you read this with regard to /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads

nor does it offer a solution

It offered possible explanation......."Reading around the inter webs, it seems that that brand of joystick has general issues in Linux of all flavors. It may be that there is no good solution other than getting a tried and tested controller that is known to work well"

Sure thing!

@meleu Hey there, sorry for the delay, came back from work a moment ago!

retroarch.cfg
es_input.cfg
8Bitdo NES30 Pro.cfg
DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystick.cfg

Thank you, btw I tried again tonight and I have the same issue!

@rsn8887: To answer your first question, @meleu has a great script that you can use to change which controllers are used for player 1/2/3, etc.

Oh... for easiest plug and play from a Pi, you probably want a controller board that identifies as a keyboard, or as a 360 controller. There are many of these on the market. Watch out for some gotchas with ones marketed as Xin-Mo, there are actually several makes being sold under that name and they aren't all the same (Paradise Arcade in particular carries ones labeled Xin-Mo that may require a fresh kernel compilation).

I'm pretty shure Triggerhappy is running, because if it was not running it wouldn't have worked for the shut down hotkey.
I found the "name" of the buttons by using the "thd --dump /dev/input/event*" command in the post you recommendet and created a .cfg:

BTN_BASE3 1 /usr/bin/amixer sset PCM,0 2dB-
BTN_BASE4 1 /usr/bin/amixer sset PCM,0 2dB+

The buttons are connected via USB to the Raspberry and work great with the commands configured in emulationstation. The Speakers are plugged in to the 3,5mm klinke output of the pi.

@capeman I completely understand, dont worry about it for now, im out on holiday for the next three weeks, then my kids are back, so its game over, if you have a chance then I will do it at some point, but as of now it doesnt look like i will touch it again for the next month.

@Mr_Fitzinator

Here is a list of games that I installed http://bit.ly/2scXkoB and I got them from here http://bit.ly/2rg2DnJ

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2/forum-rules

Why do most of my games crash or are not recognized?

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Validating,-Rebuilding,-and-Filtering-Arcade-ROMs/

How do I properly load and save control configurations?

How do I get the second set of controls to function?

How to I get the shortcuts, particularly start+select to exit games?

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/

You will notice an ongoing theme here: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

And most important: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@caver01

yes, the small buttons are this generic options about side buttons surely pinball is a perfect match, but anyway they can be used for wathever reason

To give a better idea this is the model (with first layer of coating still not set and with buttons not fully inserted, but is just to give the idea):
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PS: Your roadcase is wonderful!!

Ya... it's hit/miss on which games have the issue. MAME so far. Never had issues with NES games yet. Probably another way around it for sure, but, no keyboard hooked up. Usually start/select together exits, sometimes it just ignores the one button completely and keeps adding coins.

When I make the game console, I plan to add a button to run a shutdown command on the console (not the joystick). Bought a small momentary power switch with a small LED in it, add a resistor and connect to the GPIO's directly. I bought a pack of these and jumper wires as well, for a small guitar amp project with a breadboard, figured sacrifice a few to get the single-pin parts so no soldering to the Pi directly. Though in most cases I'll probably run the shutdown from RetroPie's shutdown screen.

I have a master power switch going in the rear as well, because still need a way to power off the powered USB hub which will power the joysticks and the cooling fan.

Media server is running an old Core2Quad I upgraded from. Was running Win7 for years, but decided to change the case, switch to a fanless GPU, and got a free 32GB SSD drive so, decided to try OpenElec. I have 2 x 3TB drives in the computer as well, and a few computers stream from it in the house, all wired with ethernet, no WiFi. Runs fine... and if I ever need to switch out the other HTPCs, I'll probably use a RaspPi. But, for the main server HTPC on my TV, I'll probably always run a full computer.... though next upgrade, I'm building a case and getting a mini/micro ATX. Looks nice right now, but the new case is noisy, flimsy, and interior layout could be better. I can build something much nicer and more silent... probably for less too. Silverstone Grandia GD09, for the price, very disappointed, but after lots of work, got the noise down and installed a Flirc, internal edition not USB, added a small iR window at the front, can't tell it's there. Works pretty good, pretty impressed with OpenElec... again, tried Ubuntu, installed it twice and still wouldn't even update properly because of repository issues and such... unimpressed.

sounds good!! i found this one, it seems to be pretty small, but i cant actually find proper dimensions for it. The screws are supposed to be M2.5, so that would scale it all to be pretty diddy

http://cpc.farnell.com/apem/100113/switch-joystick-5a/dp/SW02291

Yes, the buttons have been working fine with jstest. After a few hours of hopeless resetting and deleting button configuration files, I tried a different port. Problem solved!

I still can't explain why a different port would let L & R work on ES while the actual inputs were detectable...

Now my only issue are phantom inputs, as discussed here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8598/buffalo-controllers-phantom-inputs