2 player with GamePi43?

pepesilvia

Re: What handhelds are everyone using for RetroPie?

Hey everyone! I have a Pi 3B+ I installed in a GamePi43 case/controller following the manual installation instructions on waveshares gamepi wiki page. Everything works, but I tried to play a two player game the other day and found that it doesn’t read a controller when I plug it in via usb. Is there a way to manually install a controller driver or some way around this to do multiplayer on the GamePi43?

mitu

Please add more info about your system, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

What controller are you using ? Did you configure it in EmulationStation - is it detected there ?

pepesilvia

@mitu thanks for the reply! I will make it more detailed:

I have a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ With the GamePi43 case
It runs on two 18600 lithium ion batteries
Version 4.5 downloaded from retropie website

I installed the GamePi43 case following the instructions under “Method 2: Install Driver Manually”
Here’s a link to the website:
https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/GamePi43

Once I installed it and booted up emulationstation I configured the case/controller, it’s kinda like a gameboy ate a snes controller, and boom bam I was playing my games on the GamePi43! Everything else about it works but I tried plugging in my Vilros SNES USB game pad in the port 1 but no Configuration Menu popped up. I tried plugging the controller into all the other available slots and nothing..
I do use a flash drive in Port 0 that contains my games. Would that maybe have something to do with it?
Is there maybe a way to connect a keyboard and manually install a controller driver? I’m pretty new to all this and installing retropie is the only experience I’ve ever had with command prompts.
Thanks!

mitu

@pepesilvia said in 2 player with GamePi43?:

Everything else about it works but I tried plugging in my Vilros SNES USB game pad in the port 1 but no Configuration Menu popped up. I tried plugging the controller into all the other available slots and nothing..

The input configuration pops up when you don't have anything configured or there's no gamepad connected. Given you always have a gamepad connected, it's not going to. Instead, go to "Input configuration" from the EmulationStation menu and configure your USB gamepad.

pepesilvia

@mitu wow thank you so much! I didn’t realize it was such a simple solution lol