I want to bring up this topic again!

As I have noticed from experience, at SWITCH mode sn30pro + retropie could has much delay! And it's awful :(

So, in 2024 year, could someone tell how to get work sn30 at XINPUT mode? ( with both working Triggers and "hotkey" buttons)

@dankcushions

Yes. Got it. Well, it is what it is I guess.

My problem with other games turned out to be because I did not switch from Analog to Standard. Once I switched to standard all buttons started to work except for the L2 and R2 of course. Some games are playable this way.

I know this is old, but this is the only thread that keeps coming up in searches that has fixed this problem for me, and I wanted to say thanks, and also include my controller model in case it helps anyone else.

Controller: GameSir G3s controller in X-input mode.
Left and right triggers were working at one point, and somewhere along the line, remapping the controller broke analog L2/R2. However, manually editing the config, like the user above (rilight) to +2 and +5 (yes, you need the + in there), fixed it for me. Specifically, this problem was plaguing me while playing OutRun on MAME.

Just wanted to say thanks to mitu and rilight. ;-)

Please add some more info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Are the L2/R2 triggers working with jstest from the command line ? Exit EmulationStation, then run

jstest /dev/input/js0

and then test if your buttons/triggers are registering. Interrupt the test with Ctrl+C. If you have more than one gamepad connected, replace js0 with js1 or js2, depending on how many gamepads you have connected.

Found the option I was looking for in /etc/modprobe.d/xpad.conf

Changing from options xpad triggers_to_buttons=1 to options xpad triggers_to_buttons=0
solved my issue.

@zeldagamer081
I had the same issue with the same controller.
Now they are working and the only thing I know I did was updating retropie and all packages and all of a sudden it was working.
When using steam link it will not work however but thats not the main focus.