Gamepad woes
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Hi guys,
I honesty have spent hours trial and error and searching online and watching YouTube videos on this and I'm stuck. A lot of what I've found isn't for the version of retro arch I'm using.
Please can somebody help?
I'm using the latest version (downloaded yesterday) and all I what to do is globally set controls for my gamepad for the SNES emulator. Every time I restart a game I see 'USB gamepad not configured'. I have tried saving the new config and then renaming it to retropie.cfg in the SNES directory as well as the ALL directory but it does not save.
I have also tried saving the config after entering the buttons rather than save as new config but it doesn't save.
Where am I going wrong?
PS - it's a USB SNES pad I have
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Did you happen to do a binary update from the RetroPie Setup menu? This gave me some trouble this last weekend.
Something like this maybe? https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/956/gamepad-no-more-working-binary-update
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Erm not 100% sure but don't think I did. Is here a fix if I have?
I did the binary install but that's all I think. It surely shouldn't be this hard haha
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@mancity Yeah, I don't know what's up with that, but it updates the kernel before it installs the binaries of the emulators, etc. I think the newest kernel is causing issues. But what do I know?
As for a fix... sorry, I don't know of an easy one. I backed up everything and installed fresh.
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If I do a fresh install surely it will apply the same update and break again?
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@mancity Not unless you do a binary update or manually update the firmware via the terminal. Just be careful with what options you use post-install. Setting up controllers, enabling extra emulators, wifi... all that is fine. Just don't update.
Not a great solution, I know, but it's all I have to offer.
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Just to be clear - what update should I not do? Don't do a Pi update or don't do a retropie update? I basically used Debian Jessie and did the latest updates and then downloaded the latest retropie and installed that but didn't do any actual updates post-install...
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@mancity Ah. I used the RetroPie 3.7 image to start with. I don't know if I can help you if you're not starting there and installing on top of another distribution.
Do NOT do:
- Binary install from RetroPie menu (probably source update too)
- "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" from the terminal (this is what I did at first while trying something else out, and then later I did the binary update and ran into the issue again. Both of these update the kernel).
You can update (I THINK, don't quote me) the RetroPie script from the RetroPie menu, but there should be no need for this if you're starting from the 3.7 image or stand-alone install.
I would recommend making a disk image backup once you're done configuring it again until the update stops breaking things. Just in case.
You and I are not the only people with this issue. I see yet another thread about this here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/1546/updated-retropie-image-from-script-now-usb-joypad-keyboard-wont-work
My advice is to just avoid the binary update for now.
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Thanks alot for the info it's really appreciated.
One final question - what install should I do if not the binary one for retropie? Isn't the other one a 24 hour install??
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@mancity I'm not sure how you're installing RetroPie. Are you downloading the RetroPie 3.7 image and starting there? If so, everything is already installed. No need to do another install (either binary or from source) from the RetroPie setup menu.
The source install is super slow because it is literally compiling the source code on your RPi for every emulator included with RetroPie into the binaries that you could download with the other (binary install) option. There is literally no reason to do this for 99.6% of RetroPie users.
If you're installing this on top of Raspbian, well I can't help you there. I only use the stand-alone image provided to us on a dedicated micro sd card.
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Yeah I was installing on top of raspian. I'll try the image. Only reason I did it on top as the image didn't work for some reason.
Thanks again for the help it's really appreciated.
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@mancity My pleasure. I hope you get it sorted out.
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Sorry. Final final question. I have a B+ so what sd image would I use? 0/1 or 2/3??
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@mancity Uhhh. I think the 0/1. I don't remember there being a RPi 2+, only the original B+.
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