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    Nintendo Controllers Not Working in game.

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    • dankcushionsD
      dankcushions Global Moderator @Justintoxicated
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      @justintoxicated we need the /nes/retroarch.cfg, not n64

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        Justintoxicated @dankcushions
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        @dankcushions oops that was just a typo on my side in the post that is the correct file though.

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          dankcushions Global Moderator @Justintoxicated
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          @justintoxicated said in Nintendo Controllers Not Working in game.:

          /all/retroarch.cfg https://pastebin.com/mnwGK0Jy

          this is the culprit i expect. a default retropie /all/retroarch.cfg would be much shorter. looks like you've saved some settings in retroarch and overwritten it.

          you can return the default by deleting that, reinstalling retroarch, and renaming /all/retroarch.cfg.rp-dist to retroarch.cfg.

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            edmaul69 @Justintoxicated
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            @justintoxicated as dankcushions stated your /all/retroarch.cfg is messed up and the issue once that is fixed you will be smooth sailing.

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              Justintoxicated @dankcushions
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              @dankcushions I think this is good news, but does that mean I need to re-install retropie from scratch in order to re-install retroarch?

              I removed the file, then uninstalled the core package, then installed it again from binary. The retroarch.cfg looks to have been replaced.

              the nintendo controller still will not work in retroarch games though. It does seem to work everywere else...

              I'm re-writing to my micro SD from a near stock image (controller configured), from when I first set things up. Looks like it will take about 4 hours then another evening of coping the roms etc back over to it.

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                dankcushions Global Moderator @Justintoxicated
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                @justintoxicated said in Nintendo Controllers Not Working in game.:

                @dankcushions I think this is good news, but does that mean I need to re-install retropie from scratch in order to re-install retroarch?

                I removed the file, then uninstalled the core package, then installed it again from binary. The retroarch.cfg looks to have been replaced.

                hmm, it shouldn't have - it should leave it alone if you already have one, and write the default retropie retroarch.cfg as retroarch.cfg.rp-dist. not sure what's going on there

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                  Justintoxicated @dankcushions
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                  @dankcushions said in Nintendo Controllers Not Working in game.:

                  @justintoxicated said in Nintendo Controllers Not Working in game.:

                  @dankcushions I think this is good news, but does that mean I need to re-install retropie from scratch in order to re-install retroarch?

                  I removed the file, then uninstalled the core package, then installed it again from binary. The retroarch.cfg looks to have been replaced.

                  hmm, it shouldn't have - it should leave it alone if you already have one, and write the default retropie retroarch.cfg as retroarch.cfg.rp-dist. not sure what's going on there

                  There was only a one line difference when I diffed retroarch.cfg.rp-dist and retroarch.cfg. I was sure to remove retroarch.cfg (well rename it) before removing th module and then re-installing it. But anyways still working on restoring the old backup which was taken before I messed wit any retroarch stuff.

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                    Justintoxicated
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                    @justintoxicated Took a day to roll everything back (manipulating 60 GB ISO's is painful on my laptop) but the nintendo controllers work! So it must have been something I changed while trying to get my N64 controllers to work. Not sure what that might be, but well at least it is working.

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                      edmaul69 @Justintoxicated
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                      @justintoxicated if you had just deleted the cobfigs you created for 5 controllers in your /all/retroarch.cfg you would have been ok.

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                        Justintoxicated @edmaul69
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                        @justintoxicated

                        @edmaul69 said in Nintendo Controllers Not Working in game.:

                        @justintoxicated if you had just deleted the cobfigs you created for 5 controllers in your /all/retroarch.cfg you would have been ok.

                        I don't think so because reverting the config file through a re-install did not fix the issue.

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