PS1 not seeing any controllers

CascaCure

Count me in, same issues as you guys. On latest retropie version, 4.0. No Bios detected, no controllers detected. Both bios and controllers previously were detected / fine on 3.8.1 / 4.0RC1. Problems seem to be isolated to this new 4.0 official release. Fingers crossed for progress.

bengus

I am having the same issue as well, after updating to 4.0

xpz

@BuZz We need your help. :)

This seem to be a problem in Retropie 4.0 since the exact same config works in 3.8.2. The BIOS is not detected and the controllers are ignored in lr-pcsx-rearmed.

BuZz

Please don't tag me unless you are replying to me.

I was using that emulator earlier on an updated system and it was fine. I will need more information to debug any problem.

DLC

Did you update all installed packages as indicated.

epicrean

@DLC yes I have updates a couple of times

dankcushions

hmm, can someone with the issue please post the contents of this file?
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg

xpz

@dankcushions

This is my retroarch-core-options.cfg from Retropie 4.0 RC2.

http://pastebin.com/FFGZrKwW

bengus

@dankcushions

Thanks for looking into this, much appreciated. here are the contents of my retroarch-core-options.cfg

http://pastebin.com/VK8vftDe

sebacote

Count me in with that bug, I was playing PSX with 4.0 fine, until I exited a game with Start+Select, now it doesn't work for any game, it's weird!

sebacote

Also adding my comment I left in a separate thread I just deleted to merge my comment with this thread :

Hi

My actual setting is a RPi2 with 4.0.1 (updated from 3.X to 4.0 RC1 to 4.0.1), with 2 DS3 wired controlers.

I mostly play PSX games with lr-pcsx-rearmed, and everything works perfectly, with my last setting in 3.X and now with 4.0.1. I love my Pi a lot! (Yeah, I have the right BIOS since day one)

Today, I was playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, and I saved my game and exited the emulator to jump to THPS 3 (with start+select as always). I started THPS 3 and I got the message "No BIOS found ,expect bugs" and "Controller SONY PLAYSTATION 3 ... not configured". This is not my usual messages, normally I get "SONY PLAYSTATION 3 Controller configured #0" or something like that.

I tried to restart my Pi, tried again THPS2, retried THPS3 (this wasn't the first time I played THPS3 by the way), always the same message. I tried other emulators for other consoles and everything still works.

I tried updating the script and updating all emulators without success. I tried uninstalling lr-pcsx-rearmed then reinstall it (from binary and I also tried from source) without more success. So for now, all my emulators works well, but not lr-pcsx-rearmed.

Someone have any advice to solve this issue?

Thanks a lot for the great community!

sebacote

@dankcushions
here is mine, everything was working fine until I reset the game and trying starting another one (4.0.1, updated today at EST 17h)
http://pastebin.com/WJ1FXq6a

edmaul69

@sebacote @dankcushions i found a fix. it isnt a problem with the emulator in my uneducated opinion.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3483/i-found-a-cause-and-a-fix-bandaid-for-psx-no-bios-no-controller-issue

suprjami

A user on Reddit reports the same thing also happening to FBA and Neo-Geo configs. It seems the emulator overwites /opt/retropie/configs/neogeo/retroarch.cfg and /opt/retropie/configs/fba/retroarch.cfg

I wonder if this is because older versions have the input mapping parameter unquoted:

input_remapping_directory = /opt/retropie/configs/neogeo/

but latest version seems to have it quoted:

input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/neogeo/"

Ref: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/4yz4h5/retroarch_keeps_overwriting_my_controller_config/

I tried a dozen launches of lr-fba-next with and without quotes but could not reproduce this.

Anyone hitting this issue, please try adding quotes to the system-specific config as above and see if this solves it for you.

Floob

@suprjami I can confirm that on game exit the system based retroarch.cfg is being updated (or at least the timestamp is).
But I cant get it to break yet. This is on a clean RetroPie 4 final.

Floob

Ok, maybe this is related? When it saves the file it moves some of the lines, which could result in some overrides kicking in?

Before game starts

# Settings made here will only override settings in the global retroarch.cfg if placed above the #include line


# Test 1

input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/psx/"

# Test 2

#include "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg"

# Test 3

After quitting game

# Settings made here will only override settings in the global retroarch.cfg if placed above the #include line


# Test 1

input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/psx/"

# Test 2


# Test 3
#include "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg"

BuZz

@Floob it moves the include to the end on exit in case the file was saved from rgui which breaks the order. Can't see a case where anyone would want configs after the include though.

BuZz

I don't think the quoting would make a differenc btw. I need to see a broken config to debug this

Floob

@BuZz Ah, I see. Yes, I cant think of a reason why you would want something after the #include really.
From the error being reported (i.e. no bios found), I presume whatever is happening is stopping the system retroarch.cfg from including the global retroarch.
I see the retroarch.cfg files can only be read/written by "pi", perhaps there is an odd permission at play where a different user is trying to read the files. I dont know - like you say, really need a broken config to work it out.

bengus

here is a copy of my /opt/retropie/configs/psx/retroarch.cfg

http://pastebin.com/p06UkL7D