Thank you both.

Your comments lead me to explore the emulator settings more and I found that it was set the keyboard for control. As soon as I set it to controller all the settings mapped correctly.

@yfzdude thanks I will give that a try.

@g30ff YES! That was the best advice someone could give me at this moment! It worked! Big thanks!

Edit: Regarding the shell script. Should have quoted...

Minor update: I saw on a reddit post that someone solved the issue somehow by resetting the EmulationStation input settings via the Retropie menu. I did so but no change. At this point I'm considering opening a GitHub issue on the Retropie GitHub.

@revolutionflat said in 8bitdo SF30/SN30 Pro controller bluetooth pairing trouble after updating RetroPi on Pi4:

This isn't so much of a please help post, but a "There's a problem, here's how I fixed got around it" post.

I purchased 2x bluetooth SF30 Pro controllers and the new RetroFlag NES case for the Pi 4. When the controllers arrived, I spent hours trying to get them to pair but one outright refused to connect after pairing, and the other wouldn't pair in a mode that allowed all the buttons to be used (triggers didn't work).

After 3 re-imaging and installations, I realized THEY WORK ON THE 4.6 IMAGE just fine, connects immediately and behaves as you'd dream. If you update, that's when the problems occur. I was able to install extra themes/emulator packages/retroflag scripts without disturbing the connections. Hope this helps people going through this!

Edit: On the clean 4.6 image, I had the controllers in [Start+B] mode, I'd recommend re-flashing the firmware if you've been troubleshooting.

Received my SF30 Pro for my RetroPie 4.7.1 and have been having bluetooth connectivity issues. Did what RevolutionFlat did by reverting back to flashing my SD card with ver 4.6 and SF30 Pro finally connected... HALLELUJAH!!! Thanks for the version revert advice!!!

sorry, :(
I thought you could still give me a tip.

Re-ordering the controllers can be done through @meleu's Joystick selection tool, give it a try.

@phoenixjedi

I think it needs to be in android mode