@Arrafart Those are great controllers by the way. I have the old set (US and Japanese) with the corresponding color patterns on the buttons, before Nintendo forced 8-bitdo to change them :-(. I actually set RetroPie up with them easily. I wanted to try the Xbox 360 controller out. I also use the WiiU Pro Controllers as well.

The triggers_to_buttons is no longer applied automatically to the xpad driver , since it breaks the Xbox controllers mappings in SDL and subsequently any applications that use the SDL's GameController subsystem. Existing installs are not affected, but new installations will not get this configuration automatically, though you can manually add it and will stay configured.

EDIT: how did you try to map the Z/C buttons - to which gamepad inputs ?

@Dochartaigh The xpad devs reverted the change that broke the driver for older controllers, so it's safe to upgrade to the main version of the driver again.

@emulatre71 Oddly it has never happened before, but now again on a brand new install tonight. Tried the same trick and it worked there as well.

WOW !!! Thanks a lot @mitu !! ;-)

This KROM X-Box usb gamepad is new, and I didn't know what you meant with X-Input or D-Input.
So I read in the manual and understood.
The problem was because when we just connect the gamepad on the RaspBerry Pi 4 (RetroPie) by default it always starts in X-input mode (PC X-Box) and to change to Direct-input mode we just have to press and hold the home button for about 5 seconds.
Then RetroPie recognized the control normally and it was possible to configure it.

Thank you so much!!!

@TokiyoRio sure they work, but you have to be mindful that if they don't have external power, the pi (you're using a pi?) may not have the juice to power them via USB.

I had the same issue, with the same brand PDP controller as the OP but purple controller (vVendor ID 0x0e6f, product ID 0x02bd). I followed the instructions to recompile the driver, but it still wasn't getting picked up.

I then did full update as per https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Updating-RetroPie/ and it all came good :)

Regards
Dan

@Zore I don't see any errors in the log file. Can you also post the contents of ~/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg ? Check the permissions on that file also, if your user is able to write to it.

@darth_wader I should note that the wireless adapters can be picked up for around $10-15 on Amazon and they work perfectly and easily allow connecting up to four controllers. I have used 3-4 different brands of them and have never had an issue.

Is anyone running a Stretch version of Retropie with an Xbox 360 controller?

Can you tell me what your buttons map to, and if the player lights are working?

Retropi built from image

Thank you everyone, now it's "working" but I'm not sure why. I've started again from scratch with a fresh installation, and it's working fine out of the box, as @ChuckyP said. At least is working with the padtest iso, when I push on R3 it starts running the weak motor, and with L3 the strong one. I suppose that I messed up something while trying to install/uninstall packages and stuff.

However it's not working with Final Fantasy VIII. Vibration is enabled ingame, I've tried with several bios and two different copies from the game, without success. Anyway, if it's working with the padtest then it works, and based on other comments I suppose that this feature doesn't work for all the games, but I need to test it more.

Thanks again everyone for your help!

@wardh Did it work!