@SpudsMcToole said in 8bitdo Zero gamepad setup:

@Dochartaigh Oh, it needs a Bluetooth dongle? I thought the RP3 had Bluetooth built in.

Pi 3 does have bluetooth. I was just saying I thought it worked on my Pi Zero which doesn't have bluetooth (thus needing a dongle). I found my dongle, but can't find that tiny Zero to test unfortunately.

@Kresenko Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

@bigmix said in Control Won't recognize:

When I select a game to play on any system the controls won't function at they only work on the emulator station menu only to select a game but won't function start a game

Ok, you still seem to be saying "Nothing works, why?". Please post the information that has been requested in order to receive help.

So:

Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

This means that you have to read it then provide information such as what game? on what system? with which emulator? When you post things like "When I select a game to play on any system the controls won't function" - What controls? with configurations which look like? in which file? with which controller?

Your latest post is proof that you ignored my offer of assistance. Hopefully some kind soul will have more patience and will be able to assist you. I have spent too long typing out the requests laid out in
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
in a different way with an explanation as to why the information is needed. Imagine how much more assistance could have been provided if you filled out the form. Cue the post of "what form?"...........

It doesn't get uncomfortable with thumb either.

How is the process for creating the controllers udev? I'm unfamiliar if you care to share.

@BuZz now I did, it worked

and start+select too

wow, you're the man, since my controller was not working I skipped these parts, but with the new version of retropie, it works like a charm

thanks

@buzzyc some hubs work right and some dont. I did a gameboy zero with an all in one-ish board and the usb hub built on the board reads the built in on board controller fine and the usb reads my wireless mini usb/trackball mouse. But it wont recognize my wireless n adapter and my full size keyboard crashes it. But in my arcade block mini genesis usb hub and the rockband hub i can run everything just fine. Mostly. On my rockband hubs if i have to set up wifi i need to remove everything but the wifi and the keyboard otherwise it takes like thirty tries to get the pi zero to accept the wifi key. Havent tested that on my genesis usb hub

@rmiller6 If the scenario is exactly what you described and what you want is
player1 = keyboard
player2 = joystick (the only one you have plugged)

The only thing you need is edit /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg and look for the lines with input_player1_device_index (same for player2), remove the comments and do the following:

input_player1_joypad_index = 20 input_player2_joypad_index = 0

The index 20 is a high and inexistent joystick (who has 21 joysticks connected?!) and it makes the player1 unplayable via joystick, only the keyboard controls it.
The index 0 for the player2 is the first joystick connected.

This isn't the only way to achieve what you want, but I can assure it works. I've just tested here before posting.

@columboscoat said in NIMBUS controller:

@johne79 Looks like it just won't work. It is an Apple device after all... https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/4wc9dn/steelseries_nimbus_controller/?client=ms-android-samsung

I figured this might be a long shot. It's even kind of flaky with pairing with Windows, but works flawlessly on iDevices as you'd expect.

What's weird to me in that discussion is how they're talking about the driver working at the driver level but not in EmulationStation. Isn't all of EmulationStation driven on RetroArch, and isn't that driven on udev or whatever driver you specify?

In other words, if I want to make a custom device on an embedded MCU (like an Arduino Uno or STM32 Nucleo) and have it make a standard gamepad HID report, will RetroArch get in the way of configuring correctly because it's looking at manufacturer-specific information, which would get in the way of homebrewn hardware? I'd like to build custom HID controllers eventually as I get acclimated.

Curious if you ever resolved this?

I found a solution in case anyone else has this problem in the future:

I did cat /proc/bus/input/devices to list input devices, which does not give the full ID. But I saw a "Wireless Controller" listed there, so I knew that was my bluetooth controller. I saw it had an H: Handlers set as event0 and I recalled being ale to substitute this for the full ID. So, instead of doing --evdev /dev/input/by-id/*** where the ID is still unknown at this time, I was able to do --evdev /dev/input/event0 instead.

Now whether or not the button mappings I did are accurate is a whole different problem. Time to go test it out.

@jpretpiuser14 you may have saved a "per system" retroarch config which overrides it (eg by settings save config on exit to on in an emulator ). There are a bunch of topics related to this and some info on the wiki (Sorry short on time to explain further).

I've tried via bluetooth Gamesir g3s, I find it very balanced for any emulator. it is basically a ps3 controller

Sorry :)

I was a little inaccurate formulating the question!
In fact I think that any that has wanted in the past to configure a gamepad on uae4arm has encountered a similar problem...

Pi Model: 2+
RetroPie Version Used: 4.1 downloaded from the website
USB Devices connected: Generic usb keyboard
Controller used: FC30 8bitdo

I saw another thread with a similar problem.

Unfortunatelly, after a lot of trying to replace uae4arm binary, it crashed whatever I pass the curson on input configuration tab, inside uae4arm.

Someone has some advice to configure a gamepad/keyboard on this emulator?

Hallo ich habe auch den speedlink torid (xbox360 nachbau) und er wurde bisher am retropie als xbox360 erkannt und plötzlich im spiel als speedlink hat den nachteil bei der einrichtung der tasten wird die mitlere taste nicht mehr angenommen

@shreddedbullet Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/RetroPie-Ubuntu-16.04-LTS-x86-Flavor

And see RetroPie-Setup -> Configuration / Tools -> Autostart