Amazing, now I have to figure out how to set up wifi and then configure for PiTFT possibly. I'll watch some videos. Thanks for all your help. :)

@Oxopi said in Controller with retropie:

The left analog up, down, left and right says already taken if i hold against the setting it then says not defined
The same goes for the right analog

That indicates the analog sticks might emit the same input data as the D-Pad. I notice there's an Analog button on the controller - what is the function of it ?

You can exit EmulationStation (via the menu or just pressing F4) and test the gamepad's buttons with the jstest command by running

jstest /dev/input/js0

and pushing the buttons and operating the analog sticks - see if the analog sticks are overlapping with other buttons/D-Pad. Exit the test by pressing Ctrl+C.

Also what should the hotkey be set to

You can leave it as default - don't set one and you'll be asked to use Select - or try to use the raspberry button at the top.

@simpleethat if you install raspbian(pixel) on pi4 in retropie setup, then configure on desktop then when your done just play in retropie, I play from desktop for now cos my kids use some cheats.
Use keyboard to exit since or add your menu and press twice, but be careful not to enter a menu and get stuck, it happen to me and I reset my settings, hehe.

Good luck

Yes

From less than 1 kilobyte to over 1 Gigabytes

I started with a 32GB which is plenty for Arcade Games ... as soon as you add consoles, well, i got a 64GB card which lasted a month before i got a RPI4 and was able to add even More Consoles .. picked up a 128GB card. Will see how long that lasts ;) ... prob end up using a hard drive for game next and just use a smaller SD Card for the Retropie OS

TLDR: SD Card Size will Depend on what systems/consoles you intend on playing.

Oh, and if you compress you roms/images (ie. i have compressed all my PS1 games to PBP format and Dreamcast/3DO/Sega Saturn games to CHD format ... saves a TON of space !)

Yeah, should be fine .. all my cards a Sandisk

@mitu

@mitu said in First-time user issues:

When using the Libretro (RetroArch) input configuration, then yes, you can't have different auto-configs for each player. You can, however, using either a core input remap to change the mapping or use the MAME input configuration, which can be accessed by pressing Tab (you'll need a keyboard for this).

Thanks! I'll have a look.

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