Do you have 2 dongles - one for each controller - or are you trying to get both controllers working with the same USB dongle ? I don't think the latter may be supported.

@tzium

These are the soldering s you should check :
usb-solderings.jpg
See if there are no breakages in them.

If you only connect both your controller and keyboard, without other devices, do they work OK then ?

Ok it worked. I just downloaded all the roms that were on retropie and it detected it

@BuZz which was my first thought however I installed the original 4.6 that I had on file from way back when.

Don't know too many 3b+ that wont run 1500 with 1-2 overvoltage with a pi4 power supply

for N64 emulation I had this unit running stable all the way up to 1575 with the ice tower so from a hardware point of view doesn't make sense

@cir-engineering I’m using six axis and custom hid Sony. Not sure if I need both, but it’s working. I don’t have the ps3 driver installed. Anyway, I started my pi and synced my ps3 controller via Bluetooth as usual, no issue. Turned the controller off by holding down the ps button (important because it will stay as blutooth with charging only) and plugged the usb cable in and the buttons were all messed up. Reconfigured with the usb cable and it was now working fine with usb. Unplugged and Resynced to Bluetooth, and still had no issue.
Try configuring it with the usb cable, make sure the controller is off when you plug it in to be sure your in usb mode.

@loonyboi Great to hear I could help someone. I consider myself an old noob.

@ZioDarkmage
sudo fsck.fat /dev/sda1
I always have this where it says it was not properly umounted. I'm looking into it.
Oh well, It is probably nothing.