Controller works lr-pcsxrearmed not for pcsxrearmed

europadecas

I have seen many posts on controller configs, some I understand others I do not . I'm hoping someone could give me a link or a good step by step for this. I uploaded Pro- Pinball PSX game into my Retropie and unlike the other PSX games it freezes before the title screen using lr-psxrearmed however loads just fine with psxrearmed. Problem is that controller does not seem to operate with the non lr emulator for psx but works fine with every game that plays on lr- emulators within the Retropie. I do not want to go messing with the configs and messing it up for the other games and normal operating lr emulators. Is there an easy way to fix this problem without messing the configuration of the controller that works fine with the other emulators?
What I'm running

Raspberry Pi 3B
PSX controller USB
USB Microsoft Keyboard
5V 2.0 Amp
emulation station 2.7.6 v
lr-pcsxrearmed ( controller works fine but 1 game freezes on this) pcsxarmed (game loads fine but controller does not work)

mitu

The standalone pcsx_rearmed emulator is configured separately w.r.t. controls - see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-1/#pcsx-rearmed-controls. You'll need to edit the pcsx.cfg file to make it work, and it won't interfere with other emulators' control scheme.

europadecas

Forgive me that I'm not that tech savvy but I may need a few more steps to figure out. I checked out the link you sent and watched the video. I did not see anything on configuring the controllers for stand alone PCSX on the video or the link . I did see some configurations involving controllers in the retroarch but isn't the stand alone PCSX -rearmed exclusive without retroarch support? The only thing I saw in the link regarding standalone PCSX-rearmed was to push escape button while in game menu to configure from standard to analog. Is this how you access the config for the controllers to use on standalone emulator for PSCX? If there is another way to do this would you mind giving me a step by step on how to access the config area for the standalone PSCX-rearmed? Instead of typing commands can it be accessed through the Retropie set up menu that you can scroll through? Ok never mind I saw in your link in regards to pressing escape. It took me a bit to familiarize the configuration. However I still have two questions.

europadecas

Please see my last message as well. I figured it out using your link you sent however I still have one more issue I cannot figure out . I linked it to my controller however it does not want to read the D Pad and instead reads the Analog stick. All the other buttons work . I tried to set everything to standard VS Analog but still does not respond to D Pad - only Analog. Do you know if this is something I can fix with the standalone PCSX -rearmed? Also do you know how to turn the picture from widescreen to full screen, I tried f11 to switch from full screen but not much difference.

lochana

I have the same issue with dualshock 4 controller. Not sure how to write a cfg file for that? Can someone post a link to a config file for dualshock 4. Thanks.

crossmr

@lochana

Necro, but when you google this problem thread is one of the top results, so I'll add this here.

I was just reading that this emulator can give a performance boost over the LR version, so I decided to try it out and of course my controls don't work. I see the mention of building a config file, but I happen to have a USB keyboard installed and noted the following:

The game recognizes my analog sticks right off the bat, none of the buttons. If I press escape I get the emulator menu, which allows me to redefine the controls. The problem is, the emulator doesn't seem to recognize any button pushes from my controller. It does list it as a recognized input device (generic 360 controller)but when I select that as the device and try to define keys, it just never seems to recognize any button pushes at all. This seems like a much easier way to define the keys if there is a trick to getting it register the button pushes.

Edit: A note to future googlers: In order to configure the button presses from your controller in the configuration you need to use the A or X (PS) button to start configuring things. For some reason when I was pushing return and then trying to push a controller button it wasn't reading the configuring. After I pushed that button and then tried to configure the button it was suddenly registering them.

The only thing it is not registering is my d-pad, so I can't configure the d-pad for up/down/left/right if I want. Not sure why as that works in the lr version just fine.

It's also not registering my triggers for R2/R3