@Niall76 to help you we need to know what name emulator you are using. Check out the docs section on this forum under arcade. You can check what emulator is set by pressing the A button when the rom is loading.

Did you ever succeed with this? Very soon I will be looking to have 2 arcade style controllers all the time in my cocktail cab and then I would like option of plugging in gamepads occassionally.

@Pixel0501 not sure what you exactly mean, but every controller has its own config (at least for the ReteoArch cores/emulators). It's usually at /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/JOYSTICK_NAME.cfg.

your sdram overclocks could cause sd corruption too i think. possibly the overvoltage also. personally i'd remove all forms of overclocking if you're seeing corruption/instability.

@DarkWolf
Thanx folks, worked perfectly :-)

I would recommend reinstalling RetroPie completely (save everything you need to avoid to much configuration after install).

@Lodan-Zark those Logitechs are also nice for the money too.

I have that converter or one looking just like it, but it didn't work too long before it stopped working(might of gotten a bad one) and was also very picky about the game pad you used when it did work on my PC. A converter is a good idea though if you have older PSX controllers. I still use my 20 year old PSX Asciiware fight stick with a Gameon converter on my PC and my Raspberry Pi just fine.

I think I found my issue. Apparently it make a difference as to which order you plug in the controllers to the USB hub - under normal conditions, I had the far left slot open, the second slot for my keyboard dongle and then the controllers plugged into the 2 ports on the far right.

When I was testing my new image, I had the bottom opened up and the unit was upside down. I plugged everything in the same as before, except in reverse (since it was upside down). As soon as I rearranged the plugs, all worked as usual.

@herb_fargus heh! So I gave this a shot, and it turns out I don't actually like the button configuration! Maybe I'm just so used to the default config, but the change just felt... wrong.

Anyway... I put it back to the default. Thanks for your suggestion!

-Jeff

Thank you for the reply. I'm using the Pi supply.

The controller works on the pc for my emulators great. So not sure what the issue is here.

I have ordered a snes one from PiHut now. See how that goes.

Once again thanks for the reply.

@Andrewpk200 said in Using multiple Controllers:

Also can the controls be set up to over ride on more game specific basis

Pretty simple for RetroArch: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/#core-input-remapping

How would I access the emulator settings over keyboard then ?

@unkis17 No problem. Glad you got sorted. It's a really handy tool written by @meleu

noise, thx

I had the same issue, phantom inputs from ibuffalo controller in kodi and roms. When left alone after 10 minutes it would move on its own, not so bad for games, horrible for watching anything.

This fix worked for me, may not work for everyone. Basically on every button and direction I hit the clear button with it multiple times and havent had an issue with it in two days. Hope this helps.

Scratch that- it IS working. Turns out when I changed the default emulator it wasn't saving in the config menu. Thanks @BuZz !

I'm new to this stuff myself, and it is happening to me also.
I mistakenly did a kernal update while trying to navigate around, and 20 minutes later I had no way to exit apps like Retroarch and only tested with GBA roms, but both I attempted would not work right for my NES30 Pro. I'm going to have to start over also. I hope they fix this issue soon. I've had to unplug twice because of this, and going to learn SSH before trying any more games.

@backstander @OreoLover Or you can use @meleu 's excellent tool that already do this without ever needing to go in to the Retroarch controller configuration.

You can find it here

@Zombie101
My dad has this one and it's worked for him for a few years. He doesn't do any intensive gaming though, usually uses it for old DOS games on his laptop and stuff.

https://m.aliexpress.com/s/item/32703335359.html#autostay