Motion controls on retropie (DS4, sixaxis)

[janderclander14]

Hi,

Is it possible to enable gyroscopic-based controls on controllers like PS3 Sixaxis or DS4? I would like to use motion-based controls in lightgun and yoke-based games, instead of the mouse input.

This seems to have been disabled at driver level so time ago (to avoid interferring with normal input), so the question is, could it be re-enabled?

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/2436

Thanks!

[mitu]

You can remove the /etc/udev/rules.d/99-sixaxis.rules udev rule and reboot, then the motion sensors should be detected again. Not sure if any emulators have support for using the motion sensors instead of a mouse though.

[janderclander14]

@mitu Thanks, but under /etc/udev/rules.d I can only find the following files

99-com.rules  99-input.rules

None of the files contains anything related to motion controls.

I'm using the official image version 4.6 for raspberry pi 4.

[mitu]

@janderclander14 Then it means you don't have the sixaxis package installed, this is when the rules are installed.

[fCIbX6r1uN]

Had a look and I can't seem to set my input device to anything other than "Wireless Controller" either within the retroarch input menu. I do have the other devices under /dev/input, and evdev does correctly detect the motion sensor/touchpad.

Nothing else obvious in /etc/udev/rules.d/.