@mitu Thanks for your reply. I finally figured it out the problem was PEBKAC!!! I had the joystick plugged into the wrong 5 pin port. I thought there was only the one and I was wrong. Totally my bad but thanks for the help. I'm going to leave this up since I could not find any solutions to this problem anywhere and it might help someone.

@asici2 Yes, the feature is only available for lr-fbalpha. FBA is optimised for Capcom fighting games so lr-fbalpha is the recommended arcade emulator for the Street Fighter games. You will need to find a new romset as lr-fbalpha uses a different one to MAME. More info at: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FinalBurn-Alpha/

@udubnate If you want good quality components out of the box then I'd recommend the Hori real arcade pro 4.

@Dwarfboysim hi all anyone got any ideas?

@mitu @clyde okay thanks

@teardropexplodes We don't support 3rd party images. Please install the image from retropie.org.uk/download.

@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.

@menace23 are you going to the retropie setup script, manage packages, optional, reicast, configure/tools menu then input configuration? That’s the way I did it and it worked.

I use a small wireless keyboard to set things up. I also stuffed a U-hid nano from Ultimarc into a 2600 console so the switches work for navigation. I used a similar USB adapter for the controllers. I think I used Stella and not LR-Stella to make it work with paddle controllers too.

@jodylou22 The wired controllers would as long as you have a USB adapter. However, the infrared and 2.4ghz models will not. Edit: Come to think of it, the infrared controllers would likely work as well with a USB infrared receiver and the proper drivers and capture software. I wouldn't recommend it though, as Infrared produces a lot of dropouts when gaming.

I got this to work..its weird...I set it at dinput, and x/y and the thing just mapped (now the stick is mapped to Y-1, X-0)

@stepea Then I can recommend the Mayflash Arcade Sticks. I have the predecessor of the F500.

The RetroPie SDL fork is at https://github.com/RetroPie/SDL-mirror, for the Raspberry PI it uses the rpi-3 branch. In your case I'd try first an updated xpad driver and making sure the device is in Xinput mode. The xpad driver used by RetroPie is at github.com/paroj/xpad.

Right!! If there’s anyone still there. I’ve managed to change them so retroarch sees my numbered buttons. It still won’t save. When I go into input for user two and click bind default all it changes to how I want it. But it just won’t save!!

@redrumpanda Some things you can't dumb down much further, and the Wiki is already written (mostly) to be understood by laymen. But you'll need to be willing to learn and that always requires some time and effort. Let's start by collecting more information: Which operating system is on your Laptop? Are your Pi and Laptop connected via network?

@southblazia You don't need to install any additional drivers for a DS4, as soon as your pair it via Bluetooth it should be ready to be configured in ES. Please give more information about your setup as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@simotsu I figured it out... After reading this forum a little bit I found that I had it wired incorrectly. So off to the races now!