Xbox One Elite controller terribly misbehaving?
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Well, I did a complete reinstall of the OS image and started over reloading everyting.
Unfortunately, I didn't get the intended results but for a brief moment everything seemed to be behaving but then once again the Microsoft Xbox One Elite controller flipped out and locked everything up.
So, since I had a clean install I got a bit drastic and found a $15 controller for Xbox 360 at Wal-Mart and gave it a whirl since it's close to the Elite. Picked up a Rockcandy Xbox 360 controller in "Blueberry" or whatever.
When I plugged it in and configured it the left and right triggers started spazzing out and would mess up the configuration. Not bad enough that it would lock up but annoying enough that buttons would register weird button presses. I figured it was the controller being $15 and made in China so I took it back and exchanged it. This time, fearing a repeat of the trigger malfunction I got this one in "Cherry" and plugged it in. Got a very similar problem and realized it was probably ALL Microsoft USB controllers and offbrand ones, too.
On a whim I tried configuring the new controller without triggers or thumbsticks since that's where the problem seemed to originate. After loading and playing a couple different random roms from pretty much every emulator I had I then rebooted the system and tried the same exact thing with the Elite controller in place of the Rockcandy one.
Lo, and behold, the Elite works just fine as long as the thumbsticks and triggers are not part of the set up and now I'm comfortably playing games that were never designed to be played with such a precision piece of equipment.
TL;DR -- If a superior grade controller is giving fits then try not configuring all the buttons and only go with the bare minimum.
I may not be able to use the Elite on something like a PS1 emulator but I don't need one seeing as I have a PS3 with backwards compatibility and something called a Cronus MAX so I can pretty much use any controller on any system.
Thanks to everyone's help the clean install took care of most of the issues and I'm using my favorite controller!
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@ultrakev9 Did you update the
xpad
driver ? The shoulder triggers acting as joysticks means you're not using the RetroPiexpad
driver, but the default one (from the Raspbian kernel). -
@mitu
Actually, I think I did update it and that caused some of the issues again with it not working properly. It's working well enough as is so I'm a little leery of messing with it at this point. I don't have any games that require thumbstick or trigger input so I'm happy enough with the good D-pad.
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