@uraverageplayer What emulator/game are you starting when it's not working ? Configuring the joysticks in EmulationStation would automatically create a configuration for RetroArch based emulators (the ones that start with lr-), but certain emulators are not auto-configured (i.e. advmame or mame4all).

@archie456 Please add more info about your system, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@mitu I just did it and now seems to work correctly. Thank you. I'll let you know if I get other issues

Yeah I wouldn't think so either, but it totally works with 6 button in Picodrive

@lesk Deopending on the emulator and version I think, as it is a relative recent feature. You may need to update RetroPie. There are entries in the emulator menu for this feature: SETTINGS > LATENCY. I looked up in Snes9x 1.56.2, Nestopia 1.50-WIP and MAME 2003 (0.78). The Raspberry Pi 3 is too weak and it would be extremly slow and painful (as far as I know). Which emulator and version do you want use this for? Try the "lr-" versions.

@BuZz I did

I have modified the values in RetroPie and in Raspbian. Thank you. It's fixed. I just hope this doesn't have a significant impact on other activities on the Pi sucj as simple web browsing.

I finally used the retroarch menu (Select+X) and remapped the controls here. It works fine. I think that the problem was the special syntax for Vectrex.

@katzumoto Actually, many "different" standard usb devices have the same chips and/or firmware in them and thus, register as the same product in the system. Setting up the xboxdrv is thoroughly described in the link from @mitu two posts above yours. Although you may have to read all of it to setup the driver, section 2C deals with renaming for separate identification of multiple identical controllers. You should work through the instructions and then post any remaining questions or obstacles that come up in a new thread about your problem. Its usually better than using an old thread from someone else, even if it's thematically related.

@IanDaemon i found that when I'm in game and I bring up the retroarch menu, I can't move anything in the UI. The cursor will not move with keyboard or controller. I'm stuck there until I hard reset the pi because I have no input. I thought about a reinstall but I spent a lot of time scraping and setting up and I'd hate to have to do it all again.

I seem to have fixed this. I found a page (here) with a few extra instructions on suppressing various messages. I haven't implemented them all but it seems the one or two I have added have done the trick! I'd already added one or two of these as per the excellent Retropie docs, but the extra bits here seem to have done the trick. Been mashing about the menu for a couple of hours, and rebooted several times and so far it has not returned. Thanks for your help. Thrilled to get it working so nice! :-)

@mitu I'm sorry. I'm new. I am using lr-stella. I wasn't sure how to switch to the other emulator. Thanks. I'll check out that link. I've been Googling my butt off but nothing was coming up.

@theretroprince I solved the problem of Hotkeys not saving. All I had to do was cp the retroarch.cfg from configs/all to configs/snes. It looks like there was a problem individual core configs.

@SpudsMcToole Oh, if it helps - when I get the MESS copyright splash screens and it says "Type OK or move joystick left then right to confirm", the joystick is recognised and works but the keyboard doesn't. (The keyboard works fine with other emulators.)

Have you tried to get into RA's input controls and select P3's controller as your 2nd controller ? Or add an override for the game (see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/#custom-retroarch-override-examples) with input_player1_joypad_index = 0 input_player3_joypad_index = 1

@larsks I don't use mame4all, so I can't say for sure about the axis, hopefully someone else will be able to. What might help is binding the arrow keys to input control in mame4all. Technically, if your up/down/left/right is bound to dpad in emulation station, it should also translate dpad input to arrow keys. This is how you are able to navigate the menus like retropie-setup with a controller. You might need to run joy2key by hand before launching mame4all. Not sure.