Controlls mesing after update

lostless

@rad_schuhart Took me awhile to understand how the new reconfigure work. Basically it makes more sense if you switch to Xmb interface from rgui, cause it will show you the player numbers. So Now it’s showing you the controller button on the left and and what you want it to be in game on the right. But the way retropie auto configs , it’s showing the auto config controller number and not the retropad letters. Don’t fret. There is an order. It’s. Y B start select dpad A X L1 R1 L2 R2 L3 R3 and then the analogs. The advantage now is that you can have multiple buttons press one button in the emulator, or disable a button completely, like to disable the mame menu in mame2003 for example. Or disable turbo buttons if you want

Rad_Schuhart

@lostless said in Controlls mesing after update:

@rad_schuhart Took me awhile to understand how the new reconfigure work. Basically it makes more sense if you switch to Xmb interface from rgui, cause it will show you the player numbers. So Now it’s showing you the controller button on the left and and what you want it to be in game on the right. But the way retropie auto configs , it’s showing the auto config controller number and not the retropad letters. Don’t fret. There is an order. It’s. Y B start select dpad A X L1 R1 L2 R2 L3 R3 and then the analogs. The advantage now is that you can have multiple buttons press one button in the emulator, or disable a button completely, like to disable the mame menu in mame2003 for example. Or disable turbo buttons if you want

Hi, sorry but I am still very green in this world, lol. I have no idea what is a XMB interface. What do I have to do?

Rad_Schuhart

@lostless said in Controlls mesing after update:

@rad_schuhart Took me awhile to understand how the new reconfigure work. Basically it makes more sense if you switch to Xmb interface from rgui, cause it will show you the player numbers. So Now it’s showing you the controller button on the left and and what you want it to be in game on the right. But the way retropie auto configs , it’s showing the auto config controller number and not the retropad letters. Don’t fret. There is an order. It’s. Y B start select dpad A X L1 R1 L2 R2 L3 R3 and then the analogs. The advantage now is that you can have multiple buttons press one button in the emulator, or disable a button completely, like to disable the mame menu in mame2003 for example. Or disable turbo buttons if you want

Well, Im in the road to frustration again. Now I know what is the Xmb, and now I launched it. It is way clearer than the other inferface with green letters.

The thing is in all emulators I can open the Xmb interface except in the emulator I use most, the megadrive. For somereason wathever I do, it seems is not saving changes. After hours of frustration I decided to start from the beginning again, (Formating SD, installing retropie 4.4, doing the disable ertm trick and now the controllers are not working.

I mean, I can move the main menu, but once I play the game, I just cant move anything. Sometimes is even worse and retropie does not dettect the pads (led keeps blinking)

What should I do? Im really desperated, I spent uncontable hours trying to make this work.

jasonw

I have the exact same issue which I opened up a couple weeks ago. I had a perfectly working 4.4 image, updated and the whole thing was screwed up. Kind of nervous to spend the time getting 4.4 working again since this appears to be a major issue with no real fix in sight. I have not tried the xboxdrv solution yet but I have my doubts as that itself was broken several releases ago! It would be great if some could link to the bug tracker so we can see if/when this issue finally gets resolved. I’ve been using retropie since 3.4 and this is by far the most major issue I’ve seen. If someone has a true fix they want to test, let me know!

mitu

@jasonw Which problem exactly ?

jasonw

@mitu When you update the OS packages, it completely breaks XBOX 360 (and probably other) controls. Here is my issue which is basically the same issue reported here. Update though, I only updated retropie packages today from 4.4 base install and my controls STILL work. So it's only when you update the OS packages (I'm guessing specifically the kernel) that complete break the XBOX 360 controls.

mitu

@jasonw After you upgrade the kernel, can you try re-installing the xpad driver from the RetroPie-Setup driver packages ? Even if it's listed as installed. Seems that the xpad driver is overwritten on upgrade.

Rad_Schuhart

@jasonw

Hi there. In my humble (or wrong and unexperienced) opinion, I think the retropie stuff is somewhat bad designed/not fully compatible with 360 pads, and even worse with the Xbox One ones. I cried blood to make the xbox one controllers work, I tried every tutorial out there, installed a lots of packages and a lot of everything with more than frustrating results.

Finally I made the xbox one controllers work. What did I do? Step by step.
SD Formatting, fresh 4.4 install, connect to wifi. copy all roms from a USB that I already had. Download scraper, download kodi, do the disable ertm trick. Then, I did image of the SD card and I kept it in the PC, so if I screwed something it was going to be easier and faster to start again from there.

Then I tried multiple things, to pair first one Xbox controller, switch it off and then the other. Then they worked well in the menus but not in the games. I tried multiple things and I had to reflash my own image many times. After a while I discovered that the XBOX one controllers were working, but I had to reset them when in the game. I mean, controllers worked good, then launched the game, stopped working, so I had to switch the controllers off and on. then worked flawlessly (But when using 2 xbox one bluetooth controllers at the same time, make sure to use a USB bluetooth dongle! otherwise the rpi just cant handle that)

I flashed my image again and I had different results, after launching the game, the controls did not respond for the first lets say 30 seconds or so. After that, worked well. Thats not what I wanted so I kept reflashing my image, and trying things here and there. I noticed doing the reset input configuration worked good. After clicking on it, system told me to config the input of three pads. I did the first two with the xbox one controllers and the third with the 360. I also had the problem configuring the triggers, but I just had to go back and done.

So after this, I had the XBOX one controllers working flawlessly, being able to play the games since the second 0, so I created a newer safety image.

Now feeling safe with my own working image, I decided to update all packages and to get the xboxdrivers. Also I activated those drivers somehow in the menu (honestly I dont remember well how) everything keeps working fine, so I did another image.

There are still some things that I have to fix, like asigning the buttons to what I want to do, and also I noticed the xbox one controllers work really bad in kodi. Not a big problem there, I use my smartphone once the kodi is open.

So the point is, I did the same thing many times, again and again and again, and, for some reason, it only worked as expected on the last try... Hope I could help you more, and hope it throws you some light... I dont know why sometimes does not work, and sometimes it does.

jasonw

@rad_schuhart Thanks for that. Until I see a probable fix, I’m not planning on updating my OS packages as I finally have most everything working again!

avengerfishing

@jasonw im having the same issue with the 360 controllers going all weird after the update. i guess your way is the best, just dont update for now. ill roll back to an image before the update and move on.