Issue with twin usb controllers for arcade sticks

mburry83

Hey

I am having issues with the arcade controllers i purchassed from amazon they are the SJ@JX model.

i have retropie x86 installed on a pc with ubuntu linux

the problem i am comming across is it is a single usb board controlling 2 arcade sticks, and when i try and set them up it is only works for 1 player it will not distinguish the difference from the 2 sets of switches. i did try and serch it but the closes thing was to edit the cmdline.txt file but i dont have one.

please help

mitu

Have you checked the Xin-Mo doc page ? If you're trying to set up something similar, then for a normal PC use the alternative method to add the usbquirks parameter, by creating a new configuration file in /etc/modprobe.d.

mburry83

@mitu i have just tried this method but the pc still does not recognize the controller as 2 different controllers

mburry83

hi i have tried this method
I have the same USB controller and finally got it recognized as 2 controllers in Emulationstation:

The solution: You must set a "quirk" for the usbhid module

Follow the instructions here:
Be aware that the vendor / product ID might differ. (Check via lsusb, the USB name for the double usb CY-2121 controller is "Personal Communications Systems, Inc")
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Xin-Mo-Controller

I'm using RetroPi via Ubuntu 16.04, so here's how I managed this for Ubuntu:

Search for the vendor ID / Product ID via lsusb
create a file named "usbhid.config" under /etc/modprobe.d/"
Add the following line to the file: "options usbhid quirks=0x0810:0xe001:0x00000040"
0810 is the VendorID
e001 is the product ID
Save the file
run "sudo update-initramfs - u - k $(uname -r)"
Restart your PC
check via "cat /sys/mmodules/usbhid/parameters/quirks", if the quirk has been applied successfully
Take al look into "/dev/input": There should be a js0 and a js1 now

but i cannot get it to work

then i tried this command

sudo rmmod usbhid && sudo modprobe usbhid quirks=0x0810:0xe301:0x00000040

it works but is gone the next time i boot the machine

am i doing something wrong

mitu

@mburry83 The file name you create in /etc/modprobe.d must be named .conf , not .config.

mburry83

I did see that issue and it is rename to .conf

mitu

@mburry83 Post the exact content of that file and the complete filename.

mburry83

mitu

@mburry83 said in Issue with twin usb controllers for arcade sticks:

sudo rmmod usbhid && sudo modprobe usbhid quirks=0x0810:0xe301:0x00000040

Your command line is different than the content of the file - the USB VendorID/ProductID in the file are not the same.

Replace the contents of the .conf file with:

options usbhid quirks=0x0810:0xe301:0x040

mburry83

Thank you I had just noticed that. All working now

Halvhjearne

@mburry83

the way it says in the docs might not work anymore, i had to add it to grub or it would not accept it:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash usbhid.quirks=0x16c0:0x05e1:0x040"