I went through the FC30 stage, and ultimately moved on to Xbox One bluetooth controllers due to them being a little easier on my carpal tunnel. I had horrible problems with bluetooth disconnects on both, until I purchased/installed a USB Bluetooth adapter. Now, I have no problems at all. You'd be surprised how much this helps.

Might want to check out my advice here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/19950/xbox-one-blue-tooth-joy-pad-connection-problem/3

I believe you should only need to follow items 4 and 5 as the other instructions are Xbox One bluetooth specific. (Basically - Buy/install the adapter, disable onboard bluetooth, re-pair your joysticks/edit any additional configs items)

@edmaul69 I have done that to. It is not a problem with the controllers.

You might wanna check with Selsine on these bugs.

UPDATE:

Ok I think I have partially solved my own problem by downgrading the firmware to 1.69

That's solved a lot of the problems I was having but I now have a new one whereby I quit out of MAME games back to ES. I was under the impression that by default this was just START + SELECT at the same time but it doesn't do anything for me.

Any ideas ?

@meleu said in Emulators Designating My Primary Controller As 2nd Player:

@Jiryn said in Emulators Designating My Primary Controller As 2nd Player:

How do I install a joystick selection?

https://github.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection/

It's not part of RetroPie-Setup (yet?).

We discuss about joystick-selection tool in this thread: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/1167/here-is-a-way-to-select-joystick-for-players-1-4-global-or-emu-specific

Thank you so much!!

@batesman so i tested and it doesnt work any different as i thought. Sorry to waste your time. However this is good stuff to use because you can manipulate both analogs and the dpad to do whatever you want. With this method for using the analog stick as a dpad you could program the dpad to a whole new set of buttons that arent even related to direction like how first person shooters and other games are these days.

@afoldedpage

Were you able to get the 8bitdo controller working?

@nbk Great find!