@mcjones9631 said in Ubuntu PC having issues running ROMs:

Controller always gives "✔️ USB Gamepad (121/17) not configured" when in games and games can only be exited from the keyboard

This usually happens when your controller doesn't have a configuration file/profile in RetroArch. If you configured your controller in EmulationStation, a RetroArch configuration file for the controller should be created automatically, unless you turned of the auto-configuration of controllers in ES.

Is you controller working in EmulationStation, after you have completed the input configuration ? Did you disable the auto-configuration in EmulationStation, by any chance ?

@mitu you are a miracle worker!!!! working perfectly now. thank you so much for all the help. :)