I've been meaning to post this for some time now, but the pandemic and other things in life sidetracked me. But, I made a bit of positive progress getting the controller to work with Spy Hunter and wanted to share some of the info (hopefully I'll remember things correctly!).

I found some info indicating that the lr-mame2003-plus emulator had better support for analog controllers than lr-mame2003, so I switched to use that:
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Once in Emulationstation, I enabled the X-INPUT mode of the steering wheel, and it was detected as a "CHIPUNION USB RACING WHEEL"
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Then, within the Retroarch configuration menus, there were now options for the axis configuration (+ and -) involved with the gas and brake pedals, and steering wheel (paddle):
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I then tried playing a few games, and found the acceleration of Spy Hunter's car was a bit sluggish. I adjusted some of the sensitivity settings for the gas and brake pedals, and the steering wheel (paddle):
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Though not perfect, it made the gameplay good enough that I got through the initial round of cars, got the oil and smoke defenses, and almost made it to what I think would have been the motorboat segment of the game.

If I make any other headway, with either Spy Hunter or other steering wheel games, I'll try to post back here with an update.

Hi everyone! I have the same problem. Searching for a solution since many months. The joystick works fine under Windows 10. Only on reteopie it won't. Any thing else we can try?

Some psx games are not compatible with Dualshock controller . You have to change the controller, from quick menu, to standard.

@jasonw Dude - that worked! Thank you so much.

What I did was uninstall xpad driver, reinstall, reboot, reconfigure the joypad in ES. And bingo! Back in business :-)

@jocaedu Are you sure your controller/usb cable are OK ? 1 gamepad detected implies the keyboard is detected, but not the controller.
As for the image, I don't think there is such a thing as Windows User-Friendly drivers on the Linux, but over USB the controller should be detected ok. Please give more details about your setup - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first - especially about your controller model and version.

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I finally got this to work. The key was installing both xboxdrvr and xpad. I also copied the working xbox 360 controller config from the wiki (here) and restarted the computer. After that, all the controls started working except for the d-pad. I had to go into the retroarch RGUI menu (the keyboard was also working now, so I had to use it to navigate the menu since the d-pad wasn't working) and adjust the controls for the d-pad in all the emulators. For some reason, it was the only part that wasn't working. I did notice that my triggers are handled differently for the two types of controllers. The 360 controller the triggers act as axis while the rock candy one is treated as buttons. This changed the axis that are used for the d-pad (which might also be weird. I would have expected the d-pad to be buttons, but that's no the case).

At any rate , I finally got this working. Hope this helps if someone else is having similar issues.

@shedph said in xbox controller not workin:

but indtalled the new 32 gb motion blue arade and console attract,

we only support the official retropie image.