@kumpri Some more info about your setup and what you're trying to do specifically would help. Please read: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first and post the relevant info. If you want the keyboard to be used as a keyboard and not a game controller, just dont map it. Simply plugging it into your pi, it will function like a keyboard.

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.

I’ve tried a MAME game using the Aimtrak and it worked as expected. Nice and steady movements across the screen, I found I had to set the sensitivity of X and Y to around 50% based on how my Aimtrak has been calibrated. Appears there’s something a miss with the NES emulators and Aimtrak. @MrLightgun, I see you’ve successfully had your Sinden tech working on the PS1-2 consoles, great work. Any idea when we may see this implementation to the RetroPie PS Rearmed?

@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!

@ivooc Yeah I meant threaded video. I've had the same RetroPie build from version 4.4, its hard to remember all the changes and configurations I've made. I'll try to share once I think of them. Do you have a fan installed? The temp_soft_limit is 60 by default and will throttle the cpu to 1.2ghz I increased the soft_limit to 70 and it barely reaches 63 during emulation. Have you updated retroarch, raspbian, and your cores, since you installed the image? the firmware, I should search to find out for sure, I think it is updated when you go to retropie config >> configure >> raspbian >> update raspbian(next to install pixel desktop) It could be a psx_bios, some have higher compatibility, I have quite a few in my folder actually, but I think scph_101 is the highest compatibility and it will be chosen over the others, not to be confused with scph_1001. As I say that Gran Turismo refuses to work. I don't know why, but I did update the core since I last played it.

@mitu You forgot to ask me an important question, "Is there a copy of that image?" The answer is yes!!! I am now back in business. This time I will pay close attention to what the heck I am changing. This was a great learning opportunity, however, so thank you very much for your support. =) I have two cards for the sake of clustering, in case you were wondering.

@mitu Watch at around 1:43 and see what the floating muscle guy does when you shoot. Here is a video I just recorded on my phone of what it does in RetroPie:

This helped and I believe solved the problem once I tweaked my config options. Thanks so much.

Thank you! I will try!

@mitu Welp, that was easy! thanks! :D

@dankcushions sorry, I thought the rules said to include a link to a tutorial if I followed one, the one I followed for setting up the initial keyboard layout was just from that video. The real issue is that I believe there is some configuration issue that I cannot figure out. I have read the docs and tried to find the answer. I suspect that what is happening is that the initial "keyboard configuration" is what is being used to navigate the menúes for all of the consoles (mame, atari, snes) and it is not until I am actually I the game that the system specific configuration takes over. If this is the case, then I believe that my setting the "hot key" (I am not really sure what this key is supposed to do) to the same utton as the "start" key, in the initial keyboard configuration, is what was preventing me from getting into the different arcade systems (except mame). However, I went into the global config file and changed and changed the "hotkey" value to a different button, but selecting the "start" button still does not get me into the atari emulator.

I think you can do it yourself - just edit your initial post.

Just tried a few with the (re-)modified configs/all/retroarch.cfg : Atari 800 now uses the analog stick only - with whatever assignment (digital or analog) N64 seems to do the right thing now: only the analog sticks work In PSX only the dpad works So all in all, quite a weird combination which doesn't seem to make too much sense. @mitu said in (PS3) Controller configurations across different emulators: Actually, not all is lost (well, not so dramatically). While it may not be an option for the emulator, you can trick it by re-modelling your controller - Xboxdrv. It does require more setup work though. Will see. For now I guess I will stay with the analog stick working as dpad option. Either way, only one emulator does it wrong then (N64) besides PSX which seems to do it wrong all the time, while then at least I have the choice of using one or the other control with all remaining emulators. By the way, after switching off this analog=dpad mapping, In Vice still both controls worked, which makes full sense because in Vice's configuration screen you can define the dpad and analog controls separately - in a working manner ;-) EDIT: The challenge for the PSX emulations is probably the fact that the analog version of the PS controller was released "belated" in 1997, a long while after the PSX was released (by that time only with a digital controller). There weren't too many game titles also which actually supported the analog controller feature, and those who did obviously did that with regional limitations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_Analog_Controller All in all a relatively complicated topic, which might explain in a way why analog support works quite well in the N64 emulations (where an analog controller was provided natively) and not so well in the PSX ones. There for the most part, it seems to depend on the game itself and even its country code, if Dual Analog Controller or even Dual Shock Controller support actually works. The latter one does for me in a few games, e.g. Driver II, but then again the real analog stick support I couldn't get to work, neither for this nor any other PSX game.

@m2306 Lag really doesn't have to be an issue, but it can be with the wrong hdtv. On mine I can't notice any input lag. Maybe I would be able to notice it if I could play the game side by side, crt tv vs hdtv, but it's all good for me the way I've got it set up right now.