@capeman, thanks for the encouragement. It's currently hooked up via VGA to an flat panel monitor. Given the age, I'd say maybe it has DVI, but unlikely to have HDMI. My plan was to use the existing cable with VGA to HDMI adapter.

Any thoughts regarding the remote access part?

@Farmer-Ted I would be very interested in knowing if you found a solution to this. I am in the process of building my own and would like to use controllers that are USB like you are.

Any info you could provide would be great! Thanks for your help.

@8bitmaggot Did you follow the official instructions ? https://retropie.org.uk/docs/8Bitdo-Controller/ Sounds like you have the hack mode set wrong - you need to change it and reconfigure controller.

@sagoannahs
You can also use the Configuration Editor (instead of editing /opt/retropie/configs/psx/retroarch.cfg manually)

RetroPie Setup Script >> Setup / Configuration >> Edit RetroPie/RetroArch Configurations

More information (with pictures) here:
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Configuration-Editor/

@sirdevin ceramic heatsink for the pi is .99 cents on ebay.

@incrediblekyle second that, I cant get n64 to work yet, I need a working config file for the ds4 on the n64

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10078/nes30-8bitdo-help
I created a new thread in the proper format but its got to be a mapping issue right? Whats weird is I can get Start to work in NES games just not the SNES but all buttons work in the ES

@largetree Hi.

It seems you just messed up the mame2003 configuration. It should be manageable - even if, worst case scenario, we just delete the right configuration files. :)

It is not related to the EmulationStation controller configuration settings.

So, to confirm:

The controllers work well in other emulators? [Yes?] Do Players 2, 3 and 4 still retain the ability to move down in the same emulator? [Yes?] Can you not access that menu via another controller's R2 button, as player 2, 3 or 4? [No?] Can you not access that menu via player 1's R2 button, and then move as player 2, 3 or 4? [No?] Did you lose the ability to move in all games in that emulator, or just in one particular game?

Let us know. In particular, the last answer would determine whether we'd need to find the global settings file to delete, or just the rom-specific settings.

In particular, in your <rom folder>/mame2003/cfg , there should be some cfg files. Let us know what are its contents. Exit EmulationStation by pressing F4 (or login to your Pi via SSH) and run the following:

ls -l /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/mame2003/cfg

Thanks for your answer, I tried other emulators but unfortunately, none of the games I want to play are emulated correctly so I want to stick with mupen64plus.

Am I really the only one who tried to implement different controller layouts with this emulator? Can't be true ...

Like a guess that you aren't using a libretto core PSX emulator.

The default virtual keyboard (matchbox-keyboard) has an issue where the desktop becomes unresponsive while the keyboard is open, so use xvkbd instead. I'll edit this post with instructions later

@O-M-A-A I think the game itself has a problem.. No one able to play the game..

Ok, thank you for your fast response! I have solved the issue now! I found out that I was an idiot.. I'd installed the wires on the buttons wrong, which led me to believe that they were working, as they showed up. Tested it put with another wirering today, and it worked.

Thanks a lot anyway!

And there are the 2600-daptor and 2600-daptor 2. There's a thread with a link to modded RetroPie for a project to support it here, so possibly that work could be integrated into the main RetroPie for the RPi A/B/B+.

@gusrod1580 Yes but earlier in the file you are assigning 8 to select and enable hot key as well as exit emulator. So you will get no functionality even if those last lines are removed.

I have exactly the same problem. I found quite a few videos on youtube which shows you how to resolve this by going into the actual retroarch configuration menu's.... but that's in version 3.6 of retropie. In v4.1 (the current latest version) many of those menu's do not appear. I've tried with a SNES styled USB controller... and a USB keyboard. When going through the retropie menu I can use both USB controller and/or keyboard. As soon as i select a game in any of the emulators, then the USB devices no longer work/or are recognised. I cannot even get back to the menu at all. Hard shutdown is the only way to get out of this (unplug the power cable) from my pi. I am also running the same setup as @TheCartesian mentions above running on a pi3 B. HELP retropie guru's..... i stupidly told my kids i'd get this setup for them to play the BEST CLASSIC games ever and i'm failing. Snif snif....

I deleted the controller config at
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/autoconfig/LogitechGamepadF710.cfg
and the button conflict was resolved. Don't know why this file and the core specific retroarch.cfg would be in conflict or over riding each other.