WHDboot, controller not working inside games

[Dejan]

First of all, thanks to everyone working on bringing my childhood memories back to life.

Issue description:

I have a single PS4 controller, one standard mouse and one keyboard connected to my retropie. ALL three are connected via USB cable.

Everything works fine - except the PS4 controller which does not work when I launch amiga games with WHDboot. The games launch fine, just no active controller. The controller works fine in the main interface.

From the documentation, I have come to the conclusion that my issue must be related to the default controller choice which is controlled by /opt/retropie/configs/amiga/amiberry/whdboot/hostprefs.conf

Since I only have a single USB connected controller, I assumed that this would be the correct configuration, but I must have misunderstood something.

CONTROLLER_1=joy1
;CONTROLLER_2=joy2
;CONTROLLER_3=joy0
;CONTROLLER_4=
CONTROLLER_MOUSE_1=joy1
;CONTROLLER_MOUSE_2=joy2
;RETROARCH_QUIT=TRUE
;RETROARCH_MENU=TRUE
;RETROARCH_RESET=TRUE
;KEY_FOR_QUIT=F12
;KEY_FOR_MENU=F11
;DEADZONE=
STEREO_SPLIT=1
;SOUND_ON=FALSE
;ASPECT_RATIO_FIX=TRUE
;FRAMESKIP=TRUE

The weird thing is that the controller has worked a few times (maybe 2 out of 25). I have also noticed that the controller sometimes does not respond immediately in the main retroarch interface after exiting a game. Like it is asleep and needs to wake up or something similar.

Pi Model or other hardware: Pi 3 B V 1.2
Power Supply used: Standard power supply from Pi store
RetroPie Version Used: Retropie-4.5.1
Built From: Pre made SD Image on RetroPie website, retropie-4.5.1-rpi2_rpi3.img
USB Devices connected: Apple keyboard, mouse, PS4 controller
Controller used: One PS4 controller - only a SINGLE controller is used
Error messages received: no error messages observed
Guide used: Amiberry wiki, retropie wiki
https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/wiki/WHDLoad-Booter-(WHDBooter)-F.A.Q.

Thanks for your time and happy new years,