@mitu said in Anyone else having issue with 8bitdo controller buttons not being recognized?:

Try pressing 'Y' when powering the gamepad and it should boot into 'Switch mode' - the gamepad will be identified as Nintendo Switch Pro Controller.

Thank you!
That's very helpful information... but now it doesn't recognize the analogue sticks.

I tried all 4 modes.
Xbox, Android, and Mac (X,B,A) modes are all recognized as a 360 Compatible Controller, and doesn't register the L2 and R2 triggers
Switch Pro (Y) mode recognizes all the buttons, L3 and R3, but not the analogue sticks.

I have no clue what's going on.

@soilwizard I have done a bit more digging on the steam support pages.

Xbox one controllers are only supported over a wired connection currently:
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/6424-467A-31D9-C6CB

If anyone has managed to get either a Bluetooth connection or 2.4 GH with a dongle to steam link on rpi working please let me know otherwise I'll assume it's currently not possible.

@mitu I wasn't able to get the debugging to work, I don't think I know how to do that correctly. Ultimately I installed and configured this and it seems to be working.
https://github.com/eberhab/bluetooth-repair

@nixzero said in How to save controller configurations to IMG backup?:

Does this provide any clues?

Not really, the Joy2key keyboard messages are ok since they're associated with the runcommand menu and the joy2key utility. However, the fact that there are no disconnects for your physical gamepads means their connection is fine - it's what the dmesg command was used for.

Hm, seems like the the hid_nintendo driver has some issues with the 8Bitdo pretending to be a Switch Pro Controller. Thanks for the investigatio and write-up.

Generally, users use the XInput mode for 8Bitdo Pro(s) and use the hid_xpadneo driver, probably that's why there haven't been so many reports similar to yours.

@mitu Great, thanks!

@mitu created the folder and copied the file

pi@retropie:/lib/modules/5.10.103-v7+/updates/dkms $ ls
hid-sony.ko

pi@retropie:/lib/modules/5.10.103-v7+/updates/dkms $ sudo modinfo hid_sony
filename: /lib/modules/5.10.103-v7+/kernel/drivers/hid/hid-sony.ko

restarted

but still controller not recognized

too bad..

@Chuckgofer Thanks for the confirmation.

@Diego said in Bluetooth controllers order:

I think I fall a bit short to answer your question but I think I can provide some more information that you may find useful. [...]

Unfortunately the alias you added is not used for re-ordering of the controllers in emulators. I'm not sure if you can force a re-connection based on the MAC (which I assume is how the alias is associated with the controller), but that may be worth investigating - forcing a re-connect of the controller(s) just to influence the detection order and simulate an 'orderly' pairing.

@mitu Thank you Mitu,

I couldn't figure out how to skip, so I just made the button the select key. I was able to start Mario but then couldn't exit, Hahahahah. I read your post on how to exit by skipping holding A, and then it prompted me for Select.

Thank you! I appreciate your help!

Let the Gaming begin
Astalon

@chisnillum Open the EmulationStation menu by pressing Start and choose to the Input Configuration menu item.

@mitu I decided to use the Ace with my PS4 instead (it works fine right out of the box on PS4) and use the dualshock controllers for retropie. However, even those I can't successfully pair with retropie. I will write a separate post.

Did you try to ask the vendor if they have Linux support ? Is the controller you have the Brawler64 BT NSO Edition - the one that's created for the Switch ?

Please also add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@mitu Thank you so much! This fixed the problem. I was sure it wasn't a wiring issue, but I guess it goes to show how little I really know about computers, lol. Thanks for the help :)

@craigbot said in Noob: can someone please help me understand input and input devices?:

I tried xboxdrv according to the instructions, but it doesn't seem to be there:

It's not installed by default, you need to install it first, from the drivers section of the packages.

Thank you all for the feedback, I'll probably go with a Pi 4 and retropie.