I think MGS uses all 8 buttons and yours has six right?

Edit : I looked at a picture and it seems you have enough buttons on there.

@rascas People with Bluetooth controllers are reporting this issue. If USB controllers and Bluetooth controllers are affected, there's something wrong with the underlying OS or its drivers.

I'm wondering if I might have better luck with v16 of Kodi. Is there a way to downgrade?

@obsidianspider I've connected them individually from power off direct to the pizero USB port using a single otg cable, one controller detects and the other doesn't

I don't have any idea what this might be. I use an iBuffalo SNES-style controller, and think it's great. No problems at all configuring the controller or using it with any of my games...

What about these chinese usb fighting sticks u can get off of eBay.. Anyone tried those?
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2057872.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.XArcade+Street+Fighting+Stick+.TRS0&_nkw=Arcade+Street+Fighting+Stick+&_sacat=0

@miXza-81 The QC on this kinds stuff is non existent. Back in the day when stuff was built better, my dad would get stuff from free from friends and sometimes pawn shops and thrift stores that was broken. He taught me how to open it up and look for bad components and traces. Used to be that you could solder in a small wire to bridge these kind of bad traces.

As a side note, that soldering on that thing makes me cringe. It looks like it was hand-soldered by 10yr old me.

This is why I ended up using my old OEM Playstation 1/2 controllers for Retropie. Even then, the cheap dual PSX adapter had bad soldering on the connectors so I had to re-do that!

Interesting enough. I deleted both configs /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg & /opt/retropie/configs/nes/retroarch.cfg rebooted and reconfigured USB again and went straight to NES game and its working now. It was a last ditch effort and I noticed both had backup configs as well.

Cool, but I'd like to stick with a retro controller @StormJH1 Quick question, are the n64 remotes prices going up? The n64 is the next step for me, (as it says in my signature) and I don't want the prices to go up too much.

@MisterMeeseeks said in Random directional inputs from iBuffalo controllers:

I was able to determine that the effect is SIGNIFICANTLY (though not quite completely, more like 99%) reduced when connecting the controller through a usb hub.

I'm glad to hear you found a something that works. Now, if you could just find a way to take two strokes off my golf swing. ;)

@dentedvw

What have I missed?

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first - what emulators?

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2859/how-to-use-mame-with-retropie-help-guide

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration

Thank you for the suggestions I will take another look at this tomorrow as the other half has arrived home and it's a secret project for Christmas!

Thanks for responding Buzz....ended up being a craptastic power supply.