It works very slowly. You will not be able to get a good gaming experience. Try with 1942.

@CDNSailor ok, so after getting home and opening my Pi up, I tried plugging the controller directly to the system. Lit up and was picked up immediately. Still can set it up, but I did run a jstest. It's definitely my splitter that is causing the issue with the pi seeing the controller. That said, now I'm going to fiddle with the drivers and see if I can get that one to work. Of that works, I'll be half way there. I just wish I could know exactly what the splitter is doing that is choking it off. If it's power or data throughput.

@costas it’s controller priority. The usb ports take priority over the Bluetooth connection. You can change the which controller is which in the retro arch menus. As far as the resetting. It sounds like you set the hot key as either a or b. Reconfigure that controller in emulation station to make either select or the Xbox button the hot key.

Are you talking about the vice libretro core or the standalone emulator ? RetroArch input combos do not apply to the standalone emulator.

@lostless thanks, I think that did it! Will need to test some more, but it seems to do the trick.

@liuqin19980818
.rNN files are split .rar compressed archives. to extract the lot, open the .rar file in a program that can understand .rar compression. eg https://www.7-zip.org/ - it will pull from those .rNN files as appropriate.

.sfv files are just checksum data. you can ignore it.

This issue has been fixed with an RPI OS update for the Bluetooth packages, so the workaround is no longer necessary - an update of the packages/OS is enough.

You can update the packages as part of RetroPie's update menu or manually with

sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade

The bluez package version that fixes the issue - 5.50-1.2~deb10u2+rpt1.

Anyone? Please?

@barbudreadmon

Thank you

@crush I was too. AFAIK if you have ps3controller installed and you install sixaxis, then ps3controllergets automatically uninstalled. But seems like installing ps3controller works perfectly after having installed sixaxis.

@dankcushions I appreciate the info and was thinking I need to do a fresh install. I was hoping for a workaround without having to start from scratch but will try the fresh install.

@messy in which screen/menu are you seeing the "you can unplug the controller now"? Is it on the "pair register bluetooth device" after going from EmulationStation > Bluetooth menu?

This continues to be an issue on x86 builds. I have opened an issue on the RA github but don't have much hope of it getting any traction.

https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/12312

I updated the original post to say that I am not seeing this issue on older versions of RA (specifically 1.7.3 anyway).

Is there ANYONE else that has 4x genuine PS sixaxis dualshock controllers that can verify what I am seeing? If so, this may give us enough ammo to push the issue with the Libretro team.

John

I GOT IT WORKING!!!

Good Grief.....in the end I used the PS3 driver and what made ti work was, just after registering the device a window pops up saying you can now unplug your cable.

At this point, I unplugged and paired the controller and THEN with the keyboard moved back to the main menu to configure it.

Trying to pair the device at ANY other point during the process and it doesnt like it.

Have rebooted and the device still conect and works so it seems stable :D

Cheers for the help.

"It's not 'retro'"
Ha! The DS isn't retro, but I still got it!

@ExarKunIv

You certainly came with great news of possible hope

Interesting , very interesting by your observation

Yes I would love for you to try to help and I'm pleasantly surprised you have a move , most people I have spoke with do not have a move controller with camera , so this is excellent !!!

Well when you find your move and test out everything thing for your self , I will be here waiting and hopeing you could help me

Thanks a bunch for possibility of HOPE

@mitu thanks a lot. yes , this is the very 1st first thing I did initially and while the config is definitely saved I launched a game (quazatron) and it simply doesnt work. (the d-pad right pauses the game and i think the X button or the Y resumes. another game like dan dare works with the dpad just fine, admittedly havent tried a load of games as trying to keep it simple and understand how/why its working on one and not another. i've launched retroach while the game is loading attempting to configure it per game but the config doesnt display properly (i think this might have to do with running retropie under buster and rpi4?). any other ideas when you have the time would be much appreciated.