@arj5193 once you get into the game press your hotkey & X at the same time.

@stevepax Hello and belated welcome to this forum. I'm close to finishing my own arcade cabinet myself and I plan to do something similar to you but with two bluetooth controllers for players 3 + 4. I didn't dive into the matter deeply yet, however, but I'll try to answer your questions to the best of my current knowledge.

If the emulator and the game rom support four players, you should be able to configure the controls for players 3+4 just like those for players 1+2. Mind that some games come in different versions (roms). TMNT has 2 and 4 players versions, for example. Its 2 players versions have "2p" in their rom names. At least Retroarch should recognize your controllers upon reconnection. A common advice is to connect them every time to the same usb ports in the same order. There's also a script by @meleu called joystick-selection that simplifies the mapping of controllers to players, and if the controllers should be recognized by their names or by the ports they're plugged into. Alas, I don't know.

You're rightly terrified to lose your configuration if you didn't backup it recently. Do so now, because bad things happen all the time to "valuable" data, e.g. storage failure. (I put "valuable" in quotes because there is a saying that data with no backups isn't important by definition; if it were, it would have backups.)

Default behaviour is to assign controller number in the order of connection.
You could use the @meleu 's joystick-selection script (available from experimental packages) to map your controllers by core (ie snes pad for snes games).

Ok have resolved this issue by performing a fresh install after backing up roms via network

Installed using retropie v4 video

installing controller from fresh install all works fine, 2nd player works fine too

also start & select now exits games

On my system
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade

install kernel 4.9.35-v7+. DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystick works without any problem (just redo controller configuration from EmulationStation).

You should never use rpi-update ;-)

@megafacehead The dispmanx driver should not be something that makes a game from unplayable input lag to playable. It should make a playable game from good input lag to better. He probably altered the config or is using a 3rd party image.

@mitu said in Multiple USB Ports + Controller order for Emulators:

@retropied You can try looking at @meleu's handy joystick selection script - https://github.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection - and adapt it to automatically re-order the controllers based on the emulator started.

@mitu I installed the joystick selection script but I'm having a problem.
I have a system with two integrated controller (Dragonrise zero delay encoder) and I want to use a bluetooth gamepad for some games only. My target is to have bluetooth controller as number 1 controller when connected.
So I installed Joystick Selection Sricpt and setted Bluetooth controller as the first one and then the two dragon rise. The problem is that when the bluetooth controller is not connected the two dragonrise continue to act as player 2 and 3 and not as 1 and 2. Do you think it is possible to fix this whitout changing configuration everytime?

@barbudreadmon thanks for reply. I’m sure mame2010 only supports 1-2 players so installed mame2014 and it’s now working great!

Yeah is just i cant find it online no stores cares it and yea thats the controller

Great idea to use a wooden storage box!

@djinnocide Thank you for your help. I tried to do a reset of the configuration, and now it works. But I had to configure every emulator for the Fightstick, one by one to make them to work.
Maybe it can be the new version of RetroArch (I noticed there's a new graphical interface). In the older version the configuration it was automated for all the emulators (maybe also in this new version, in different way).
Now it need some work to configure the keys and find the correct mapping but it's ok.

See you.

@ecks 500mA is when G3s controller is in Bluetooth (battery) mode. When plugged in, the unit recharges itself and it takes 1A to 2A to recharge which would under power the RPi . The USB ports on the RPi will not be able to handle that much current and eventually damage it if you prolong its use.

@Farmer-Ted I would be very interested in knowing if you found a solution to this. I am in the process of building my own and would like to use controllers that are USB like you are.

Any info you could provide would be great! Thanks for your help.

@edmaul69

im using a raspberrypi 2+ with retropie-4.2-rpi2_rpi3.img
advanced mame 1.4

@briandamico I don't know what caused, but I know what fixed: the changes we talked about here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10321/looking-for-testers-custom-joystick-mappings-for-runcommand-retropie_setup-menus/

does noone know the answer to this question please?

@obsidianspider yeah, bit this one was working with pi zero. Thank you

Thanks, that worked.

ES still said "No Gamepads Detected" but when I held down a button on the SNES pad it showed its name and let me configure it.

Any possible reasons why I wasn't detected before creating the 99-gamepad.rules file? Here is the HID descriptor I use for the gamepad:

0x05,0x01, // USAGE_PAGE (Generic Desktop) 0x09,0x05, // USAGE (Game Pad) 0xA1,0x01, // COLLECTION (Application) 0x15,0x00, // LOGICAL_MINIMUM(0) 0x25,0x01, // LOGICAL_MAXIMUM(1) 0x35,0x00, // PHYSICAL_MINIMUM(0) 0x45,0x01, // PHYSICAL_MAXIMUM(1) 0x75,0x01, // REPORT_SIZE(1) 0x95,0x08, // REPORT_COUNT(8) 0x05,0x09, // USAGE_PAGE(Button) 0x19,0x01, // USAGE_MINIMUM(Button 1) 0x29,0x08, // USAGE_MAXIMUM(Button 8) 0x81,0x02, // INPUT(Data,Var,Abs) 0x05,0x01, // USAGE_PAGE(Generic Desktop) 0x25,0x07, // LOGICAL_MAXIMUM(7) 0x46,0x3B,0x01, // PHYSICAL_MAXIMUM(315) 0x75,0x04, // REPORT_SIZE(4) 0x95,0x01, // REPORT_COUNT(1) 0x65,0x14, // UNIT(Eng Rot:Angular Pos) 0x09,0x39, // USAGE(Hat Switch) 0x81,0x42, // INPUT(Data,Var,Abs,Null) 0x65,0x00, // UNIT(None) 0x95,0x01, // REPORT_COUNT(1) 0x81,0x01, // INPUT(Cnst,Ary,Abs) 0xC0