@theatomicfire said in Trying to make my own motion control with retropie:

However, I have been running into problems getting the gamepad "configured" within retropi. I created cfg file for my "input device" which retopi recognizes, but none of the commands i input through the script actually go through

Do you mean EmulationStation will not recognize and configure your input ? Is your device working with jstest or sdl2-jstest ?

Do you have any ideas as to how I could implement this?

Difficult to say without any more details or a look at the code you used.

Had a look and I can't seem to set my input device to anything other than "Wireless Controller" either within the retroarch input menu. I do have the other devices under /dev/input, and evdev does correctly detect the motion sensor/touchpad.

Nothing else obvious in /etc/udev/rules.d/.