Player X USB not working as P2

PabloMartini

Hi guys, I'm new and building my first mame cabinet. By reading these forums I've found solutions to most of my issues but this one has me stuck, so asking for some assistance :)

Raspberry Pi 4 (official power supply)
Picade X HAT USB-C
Player X USB
Running Retropie 4.7.1

So I have the Picade X Hat configured to a zippy joystick and buttons all working well. I have a 2nd joystick and buttons connected to a player x USB which aren't working at all.
In retroarch I see the Player X USB but if I try to configure the joystick/buttons nothing registers.

I've tried connecting the player X to my laptop and everything works, so I'm guessing it's a config issue.

Be grateful to know how to troubleshoot this or if there is a guide I should follow.

mitu

Is the Player X (?) recognized as a gamepad ? Can you test if the inputs are registered by the system with jstest ? Are you able to configure it in EmulationStation ?

PabloMartini

@mitu thanks for responding.
emulationstation recognises 2 gamepads but will not let me configure it. I did follow another thread using jstest and one device registers inputs, the other registers nothing

mitu

If the 2nd controller doesn't register via jstest, then configuration in EmulationStation will not work.
Can you post the output of cat /proc/bus/input/devices ?

PabloMartini

@mitu here is the output

pi@retropie:~ $ cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=16d0 Product=0ec4 Version=0111
N: Name="Pimoroni Ltd Picade Player X USB"
P: Phys=usb-0000:01:00.0-1.4/input2
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.4/1-1.4:1.2/0003:16D0:0EC4.0001/input/input0
U: Uniq=00000000001A
H: Handlers=event0 js0
B: PROP=0
B: EV=1b
B: KEY=ffff0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=f
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=16d0 Product=0ec4 Version=0111
N: Name="Pimoroni Ltd Picade Player X USB Consumer Control"
P: Phys=usb-0000:01:00.0-1.4/input2
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.4/1-1.4:1.2/0003:16D0:0EC4.0001/input/input1
U: Uniq=00000000001A
H: Handlers=kbd event1
B: PROP=0
B: EV=13
B: KEY=78 0 1e0000 0 0 0
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="gpio_keys"
P: Phys=gpio-keys/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/gpio_keys/input/input2
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=sysrq kbd event2
B: PROP=0
B: EV=3
B: KEY=101680 0 3003400 31800002

PabloMartini

@pablomartini Gave up on the the Picade player X controller and replaced it with a cheap one from Amazon which worked just fine.