@mitu
Actually, I think I did update it and that caused some of the issues again with it not working properly. It's working well enough as is so I'm a little leery of messing with it at this point. I don't have any games that require thumbstick or trigger input so I'm happy enough with the good D-pad.

@mitu sorry about that it's Retropie v.4.4 with emulation station 2.7.5

For the SF30 Pro controller enable it for Switch and it will work cause i did that and i got everything working.
As for the other controllers i have never used them so i am not able to help out with that.

@bdk said in Retropie 4.4 Controller Issues - Xin-Mo & Multiple Controllers:

@bdk said in Retropie 4.4 Controller Issues - Xin-Mo & Multiple Controllers:

Hello All,

I am having a heck of time trying to keep my controller configs set on Retropie 4.4. I have a bar-top arcade that has two Xin-Mo controllers. Each Joystick has
6 buttons
1 joystick
player 1(start)
Coin (select)
exit
menu
mode
play

In Retropie 4.3 this all worked great. This button configuration worked for all emulators I have atari , dreamcast, nin, sega, arcade etc...

What is happening now is the controller will work for a few correctly meaning I can move up and down get into games and out of the emulators. At some point it just stops working and I can not get out of the emulators. I can still move up and down and buttons to get into emulators seem to work but they fail to get me out of emulator.
Another thing I noticed it seems as soon as I plug in my Logitech Gamepad F310 that just works right out of the box with everything it starts to mess up the arcade sticks. It seems I can only have 2 joysticks configured.

I have tried a lot of the stuff people have said to do on forums. This is what I have done.

Add this line to cmdline.txt "usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040" Used multiple - Xin-Mo Xin-Mo Dual Arcade.cfg & Xin-MoXin-MoDualArcade.cfg Configured my own Xin-Mo Xin-Mo Dual Arcade.cfg & Xin-MoXin-MoDualArcade.cfg I am currently evaluating this posting. I am concerned to do any of this since this is an old article and we are on Stretch now.
http://ithink.ch/blog/2013/09/08/patching_the_linux_kernel_to_install_the_xin-mo_dual_arcade_driver_on_a_raspberry_pi.html

Is anyone else having issues like this? Have you been able to get past them?

Specs
Retropie 4.4
Pi 3b+

Thanks in advance!
BDK

Update 5/14/2018 - I finally had a chance to really look at this issue and the problem looks like it has to do with RetroArch not saving Userbinds 3-5 . I can save the configs for the 1st two input binds but nothing after that. So I am looking into why I can not save bind 3 on.

***Update 5/17/2018 - Now Working
Boy this has been tricky but I learned a lot about Retropie trying to figure this out. A little silver lining. I think I got it fixed. This is what I did.

At some point I must of updated my OS that removed the line in the cmdline.txt on the root of the SD card- usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040.
I re-added the line
Wipped out emulation station information from the cli cmd line gui tool
Rebooted
Reconfigured joysticks and they worked.
Back up image
Then started loading all my packages
I checked here and there still worked
This is where I think it broke. I updated the retropie and the base OS and when rebooted my arcade joystick 2 was #1 and emulation station recofig would not work and hot keys did not work.
Went into Retro Arch and noticed a few things.
I thought I lost the cmdline.txt line that I mentioned in the begging but I did not, it was still there. The file did update though because I know I had another configuration in there that is no longer in that file but that was not what broke my controller. I did the following.

I went to RetroArch configuration.

Menu Toggle Gamepad combo was set to "start-Select" which I had it to none before. - I changed it back to "none" Save Configuration on exit was not set to yes it was now set to NO - I set it back to "Yes" My inputs where all messed up. Joystick 2 was 1 and GPIO was 1 and 3. I set Joystick 1 to 1 and save config, Set Joystick 2 to 2 saved and then set GPIO to 3. as a side note my keyboard worked even though it did not show up as a controller. I saved and rebooted and everything now seems to be working. I can get into games and my hot keys are working.

I am doing a backup now. Once it is done I plan to make sure Keyboard is configured and my Logitech F3 joypad is working. Since this is an Arcade cabinet I am more concerned about Xin-Mo.

If you want a more stable control scheme than using a zero delay over USB (ive always found those things to be really unreliable), you can try a software package from Adafruit called RETROGAME.

It's a background application that converts gpio pins to keyboard strokes, it's very stable and reliable, and best part is that it requires no additional hardware.

All you need to do is set each GPIO pin to your desired keystroke and connect each button to GPIO and common ground then setup your keyboard "controller" by pressing start in emulationstation and going to controller setup.

Details here if you're interested.
https://learn.adafruit.com/retro-gaming-with-raspberry-pi/adding-controls-software

I got it to work placing cue and bin files into the sega32x roms folder and using lr-picodrive. After launching game, hit selct-x to bring up Retroarch menu. Scroll down to "Options" and set Input device 1 to 3 button pad. and Input device 2 to "None".

Actually, you can't even manually change the config file. It seems that jstest & emulationsation interpret one button as "0" but retroarch interprets that same button as "3". So yeah, you can fix button 10 by changing the config file to say "7" but retroarch doesn't like buttons to have negative numbers assigned so this doesn't work as a long term solution.

Many will say "buy a different controller." The Amazon is so far away. Also, the cost-benefit analysis of using a pi and retropie compared to buying something like the Allcade was that I wouldn't be needlessly buying things that I already had!

@point7 Start the game. Open the Retroarch menu (Select+Y on your xbox controller probably). Go to Options. Change Pad 1 Type to Standard. Go back to the quick menu and Resume.

You're welcome.

I've fixed this issue, went through the key binds once again and now it works, another problem though so I'll make another thread.

@spicysupport You aren't really supplying enough information for help to be possible. You don't even say what encoder it is. To begin the process of support, please follow this:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

That's a shame. I was hoping it was something I could fix on my own. I do love my Japanese computers. I'm glad to see that an official Retropie guide for the PC-88 emulator showed up within the past few months at least.

I didn't even know about RGUI until I looked it up... Now I understand what was going on....Emulation is on point, the controller doesn't work until you turn the analog button on.

I have tried these different profiles however they do not seem to do anything, I cannot even get to the emulation station config screen.
Any help would be awesome!

Thanks. When my new controller comes in the mail. I will retry it though the retro arch menu. If that doesn't work. I'll just manually​ edit the config file.

@edmaul69 no problem. It may be a little while though. Tomorrow hopefully. I'm building a 64 bit distro for the pi 3 and also have a lot of homework.