@Retro-Arcade-Fan Maybe @Clyde can elaborate a bit further on it. AFAIK he had tested/compared some Models (and made his decision in favour of the mag-stik).

@mitu I will remember that and now have a thread to fall back on if I forget in the future. Thank You

@mitu thanks for all you help and tuition on command line earlier. FYI the recently purchased Retoflag Controller IS detected by Retopie and it allows me to set this up. Two buttons aren't being detected in the configuration but are in jstest so one for me to delve into but think I have half a clue what I'm doing now thanks to you.

Morale of the story here is make sure you purchase a recognised, compatible gamepad first....

@velteyn said in Emulation station erases the second joystick settings with xin-mo.com Xinmotek Controller:

The buttons are NOT the same and are a little messed up between the two joys but I think that this is not a big problem.

This is actually the problem - if they're wired differently, then they'll produce different configurations. EmulationStation, just like the majority of emulators, use the name reported by the joypad to identify the configuration. If you have 2 gamepads with the same name, but different inputs, they'll not work correctly since they'll not be able to share the same configuration.

Try lr-scummvm from experimental packages maybe is working better with your gamepad

@mitu said in Joysticks not detected after upde:

it's your device - did you purchase it with RetroPie ?

Not really, it's not my device. My sister gave it to me because they were not using it and after updating it the joysticks stopped working.
I will try to reinstall mk_arcade_joystick_rpi and if not, I will have to reinstall it from 0.

Thanks!

Uh dang, I need to make some retractions here.

I went back to re-examine the joystick circuitry and stuff and it looks like the thumbstick works fine at any voltage. (I felt my logic was odd when lying in bed the other day). The "lopsided-ness" I was talking about is actually caused by setting the range incorrectly. Ignore what I said for #1 in the previous post. The thumbstick appears to behave the same with 1.8V as with 5V (from a design standpoint, you'll probably save a little power by driving it at 1.8V).

Most modern joysticks expect something in the range of -32767 to +32767 with the center/neutral point (when the joystick is not being touched) being 0. Why? Because this is the min and max values you can represent with a signed 16 bit integer. To be extremely pedantic, you can actually go to -32768, but we pretend it's -32767 to make it symmetric.

When I did the mapping function, I take an input range of values going from ~70 to ~325 to 0 <-> 16384. I think this is where the "lopsided-ness" comes in. I'm using a built in function from the Arduino library called map() so I don't exactly know what is going on, but it places the center point somewhere around 4000 instead of ~8150 as you would expect. This isn't a problem if the output range is -32767 to 32767 for some reason.

The PSP emulator was having similar problems to the other emulators listed in that I couldn't get the analog sticck working. I think also that the dpad may not have been working properly either.

I tried several of the N64 emulators available. All of them were very slow and jerky. The emulators were:
mupen64plus2rice(may not be the exact right name)
lr-mupen64plus
mupen64plus-next.
There were other emulators but they were all variants of the mupen64plus name.

I tried using the esc key to access the configuration and binding settings but all it did when pressing the keyboard was to exit the game back to the game selection screen.

I found freeintv and that works much better than the other intellivision emulator.

@elduderino62 You can also check your joystick's buttons and axes with jstest in Retropie. See the Docs on how to use it. You get to the terminal by pressing F4 in Emulation station. From there, you return to ES with the command exit.

@DorkVonWaterfall
I can't see in the images well enough to know exactly where they are, but those encoders look a lot like the ones I got. My encoders had two sets of plugs for the joystick - one the 5 pin white cable you're using, and the other used 4 of those 2-pin plugs. They should be labelled as such. If you have anything in the 2-pin dedicated joystick plugs, you need to move them to another plug. That will cause interference of the signal.

^Someone posted this for me and it was the solution. I put the led connector in the left joystick input connector. Thanks for the help man

@mitu I got it working after thinkig about it i thought the easiest solution would be to delete the software and put a new copy of retropie on it.

@BJRetro Yes everything works good! Thanks for the extra info on Naomi/Atomisware!!!
Guilty Gear X 1.5 and Fist of the North Star works great.