Controller not configured in RetroArch

PiBoyyy

Hi,
Every time I start up an emulator in RetroArch on my RetroPie, things usually go fine, but lately, whenever I open a RetroArch emulator on my RetroPie, I see a message on the screen saying my controller is not configured, and when I try to press a button to start my game, nothing happens. In ES however, my controller works perfectly fine. I tried reinstalling retroarch from the RetroPie package manager, but that didn't seem to fix anything. I also tried remapping my controller in "Configure input" but that didn't help either. Is there a configuration file I need to manually edit? I'm not exactly the very best at RetroPie, so if anybody could help with this problem, that would be great.

mitu

Please fill out the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

The controller configuration(s) for RetroArch is generated when you run through the Configure Input steps in EmulationStation. A auto-configuration profile (a .cfg file) is generated and placed in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads - you can check if the profile file is there after you've run the EmulationStation input configuration steps. It's named similarly to your gamepad/controller's name.

However, if you have disabled the joystick auto-configuration - from RetroPie-Setup - the gamepad profile file will no longer be generated. Other cause could be the resettting/change of the RetroArch configuration from RetroPIe defaults, which may change the paths where the emulator looks for controller configuration profiles.

PiBoyyy

@mitu Pi Model or other hardware: Pi 4 with 4 GB of RAM
RetroPie Version Used: 4.8
Built From: On top of RPi OS 12 Lite (64-bit)
USB Devices connected: none
Controller used: Nvidia SHIELD controller
Error messages received: "Nvidia Controller v01.04 not configured"
Emulator: all lr- cores (lr-flycast, lr-snes9x, etc)
How to replicate the problem: I don't know. There's a chance somebody could've accidentally touched some RetroArch configuration settings on my Pi, but after trying to reinstall retroarch and that not helping, I really have no idea what to do.
BTW, will running sudo apt-get purge retroarch and reinstalling RetroArch help?

mitu

@PiBoyyy said in Controller not configured in RetroArch:

How to replicate the problem: I don't know. There's a chance somebody could've accidentally touched some RetroArch configuration settings on my Pi, but after trying to reinstall retroarch and that not helping, I really have no idea what to do.

Usually configuration for inputs is done from EmulationStation, which auto-configures RetroArch and other emulators. Re-configure it again in EmulationStation and see if it shows up as configured in RetroArch.

BTW, will running sudo apt-get purge retroarch and reinstalling RetroArch help?

No, RetroArch is handled by RetroPie as a package, but re-installing it would not help since user configuration files are not deleted by the installer.

PiBoyyy

@mitu I already tried remapping the controller in ES.

mitu

Is the controller configuration saved in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads ? Do you see a .cfg flie there for the controller ? If yes, can you post the contents of the file surrounded by code tags here, in the topic ?