@drevil2002 i don’t understand what you’re saying, sorry

Then unfortunately my DS3 works in PCSX as classic controller, no matter how type of device I'll set. :( Many thanks for answers, all issues, but this one, your advices helped me to resolve, even a lack of scrapping covers. :)

@Guto-Du it's a possibility it's defective. Try over volting the pi (without over clocking) to see if it's more stable. If it is then your pi isn't stable at factory settings and should be sent back for replacement. I have seen multiple reports of pi zero's not stable at factory clock speeds. I think the quality control on the pi zero might be slightly less than other models. Probably because it's a $5 computer.

Yes lr-flycast is slower than reicast, and lr-redream doesn't start at all

hey hi how did you solved your problem? I have similar issues with the arcade controller of my cabinet. After configured the arcade Control in the reicast conf/menu, I launched a game and try to play. But no buttons work.

this might need a quirk fix. Can you post pictures clear ones of player one and two wiring for buttons and joystick

@stoney66 Thanks for that. I had a look at those cfg files and they all looked fine. So I did a completely fresh install of RetroPie. Tried it out, R-Type controls worked fine. Then I started adding nice tweaks such as ES Themes etc, and suddenly R-Type had the same problem - P1 right not working unless I re-configure the MAME2003 controls every time. Not sure what change I applied that caused this, so I'm going to do it all again step-by-step and see when it reoccurs. My gut feeling is this is a bug in the Pimoroni Picade HAT drivers.

@Efriim Hi. Thanks for your reply. I solved my problem with creating a custom theme file and removing these variables for only configuration menu.

I would recommend the standalone Fuse emulator for keyboard use. Has a lot more functionality if you don't want to just play games. Eg. Typing in code, saving things etc.

Thank you for all the guidance. It appears all is working well.

as always, you solved the problem. Thank you @mitu

@mitu, I'll check the script but to me the fact that the source code of ES refers to the buttons by two different names is incorrect. Emulationstation works with more than 1 type of controller and/or keyboard. The fact that it works fine for a lot of other people contradicts your observation. Anyway, I have to say that I didn't download the full package at first. I mean I only downloaded the source code of ES to compile, then when I realised I missed the themes I installed the configuration script. I need to do more testing though. If you didn't install the package correctly, then you'll get incorrect results. Install the package from the RetroPie-Setup package - the stable version - then re-configure your controller and see if the .cfg file is correctly generated.

@theguru , thanks. My advmame files look like that as well. For some reason the trackball coming off the IPAC2 control board is always the default P1 gun cursor control. No matter what I set in the advmame file. I'm going to fool with it a little more tonight. As for FCEUMM, that makes sense. I backed up my image today so maybe I will update to 1.7.6 and see what happens. It's always fun breaking stuff.

@Zore I don't see any errors in the log file. Can you also post the contents of ~/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg ? Check the permissions on that file also, if your user is able to write to it.

my bad, I did some mistake in following https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/9aswsl/how_to_separate_up_2_controllers_off_1_port/ which has solved my problem

@granderjoree Looking at the Carbon theme, I think it's enough to create another folder with the collection name, with the same structure as a system folder.- For instance, copy the snes folder from the theme folder to your collection name folder (i.e. megaman), then modify the art (.svg) files inside the art subfolder with the images you want.

SOLVED! I forgot to copy the gameslist.xml into the folder! Haha silly me. It now works fine. Thanks guys!