@mitu

Hi mitu thanks for that info.

Apologies for not specifying the correct info as I am very new to retropie and struggling with some of the clever stuff. As I built retro pie four weeks ago still exciting about playing games with the game pad but naturally want to make it more enjoyable palying with the joystick. I will check the speed link FAQ and jtest instructions you provided and report back. I get the impression from your responses that this should work so its good news I just need to work out how to configure this.

My retropie build is:

Pre-made images for the Raspberry Pi
The latest pre-made image of RetroPie is v4.8
Released March 14, 2022.
Running on Raspberrypie 4 with 4Gb RAM.

Regards
Dario

@mitu i gave

for dev in /dev/input/js*; do udevadm info --name $dev; done

response

P: /devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1.2/1-1.1.2:1.0/input/input3/js0 N: input/js0 S: input/by-id/usb-045e_SL-6566-joystick S: input/by-path/platform-3f980000.usb-usb-0:1.1.2:1.0-joystick E: DEVLINKS=/dev/input/by-id/usb-045e_SL-6566-joystick /dev/input/by-path/platform-3f980000.usb-usb-0:1.1.2:1.0-joystick E: DEVNAME=/dev/input/js0 E: DEVPATH=/devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1.2/1-1.1.2:1.0/input/input3/js0 E: ID_BUS=usb E: ID_FOR_SEAT=input-platform-3f980000_usb-usb-0_1_1_2_1_0 E: ID_INPUT=1 E: ID_INPUT_JOYSTICK=1 E: ID_MODEL=SL-6566 E: ID_MODEL_ENC=SL-6566 E: ID_MODEL_ID=028e E: ID_PATH=platform-3f980000.usb-usb-0:1.1.2:1.0 E: ID_PATH_TAG=platform-3f980000_usb-usb-0_1_1_2_1_0 E: ID_REVISION=f00f E: ID_SERIAL=045e_SL-6566 E: ID_TYPE=generic E: ID_USB_DRIVER=xpad E: ID_USB_INTERFACES=:ff5d01:ff5d03:ff5d02:fffd13: E: ID_USB_INTERFACE_NUM=00 E: ID_VENDOR=045e E: ID_VENDOR_ENC=045e E: ID_VENDOR_ID=045e E: MAJOR=13 E: MINOR=0 E: SUBSYSTEM=input E: TAGS=:seat:uaccess: E: USEC_INITIALIZED=5847884

That's great to hear.
May i ask if a "wired" mode is possible with that controller or did you just plug it it for charging?

@VictimRLSH i read already about the xpad drivers so i guess i could manage that myself