I want to add one thing to @BuZz' post: Please edit your post and give it a more explanatory topic. Imagine a forum filled with posts named "Newbie … Help!" and the like. Nobody wants to read every topic just to see what they are about. Just a friendly advice. Welcome to Retropie and to this forum. :)

@Erdrick said in Unable to Configure Controller: My hunch is since I configured it for a keyboard and nothing else, he needs a keyboard to select input configuration and it should work from there. If you configured a keyboard as controller in ES, I think the initial controller configuration screen would not show If that's the case - and he gets the normal ES system carousel - then he'll not be able to configure the controller on 1st boot. He would, indeed, need a keyboard.

@rafioso24 There's no asking/sharing copyrighted material in the forums - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2/forum-rules.

@mitu sure bro, again thank you very much

I have a similar issue: Having 2 PS 3 controllers, yesterday I performed sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. After that, the controllers still paired, however auto-logon failed. Then I chose to update all packages from the Retropie setup. After that I rebooted, and then the controllers didn't pair anymore. I will roll back to my last image, anyway I think some mess was being built into the latest update components. Obviously I'm not the only one having logon and controller pairing issues after the recent updates...

Can you add more info about your system, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first ? What type of controller are you using ? You might want to switch to Emulationstation as frontend and configure it, since this will also generate a gamepad auto-configuration for RetroArch.

@mitu Perfect! that's how it works with my PC setup, just wasn't sure if having a key mapped to "esc" would work.

Oh, sorry, no Im not. Didnt realise, sorry

@gail1202 said in [Newbie Question] Also can anyone recommend what would be the best wired, USB or Bluetooth controllers to use buy, there are so many out there and do not want to buy one that does not work well. I got this iNexxt SNES type gamepad. They are about 9€ a piece, less for a bundle of two. I had one ghost click so far (in about two weeks of use) but for the price it’s a very nice controller. Feels very much like an actual SNES controller. Both of them worked perfectly, were immedately recognised by Retropie and very easy to set up. https://www.amazon.de/iNNEXT®-Controller-Raspberry-retropie-Emulator-snes-usb/dp/B01EA7MVTQ/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1535030598&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=snes+controller&dpPl=1&dpID=51Bh0OpQ6uL&ref=plSrch

okay thanks that was new to me. so i guess there is not THE one and only way to get it working but instead there are many ways and i have to figure out which one fits best ?!

Great, thanks for the help will give it a go, I’ll post back how I’ve got on or if I need some help lol Cheers again

Thank you! I am now playing Pokemon Emerald! Thanks for helping me set this up I am so excited!!!

I'm having the same hiccups since updating to 4.4 (4.3.17 practically) but it could be a "nocebo" effect due to the hefty amount (45GB) of titles, box art and videos (unrelated to the RCA topic I made previously). I'm pretty sure though that things were slightly faster before (3B with 4.3 instead of 3B+ with 4.4) and that "hang for 5 seconds" thing I'm too having didn't happen until 4.3.16/17. To put it in a sentence, navigation feels a bit more laggy and stiff than before. However, I'm not having the second part of adm166's problem with images showing grey, etc which sounds like a VRAM issue.

Hey DaleB glad to help as the retropie community is the best here are some more things you should do [TUTORIAL]How to add draStic ds emulator and configure it and add ROMS with RetroPie-Manager https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/90803 [TUTORIAL]How to install kodi and add to main menu https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/90609 [TUTORIAL]How to install and use RetroPi-Manager https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/90596

@ortsac said in How non-techie people can contribute to RetroPie project: And let us not forget Hardware Issues as well. There are also issues/questions that pop-up involving the hardware side of RPi or the console/controller. Sure! I think that my info about helping others here in the forums includes hardware issues as well. ;-)

@TMNTturtlguy I will when this stops being funny

@edmaul69 Thanks for your help, I will give it a try :)