@ebridge I'm building a Picade mini cabinet and can offer some general advice for others landing here from Google.
On first boot, your system probably doesn't see your stick or buttons. So on the 'No Gamepads detected' screen, hit F4 to exit. Then run
sudo raspi-config
to set up your wifi. Then do whatever additional setup steps are needed to get your controllers recognized (in the Picade, you run a curl command to download drivers).