Hey mate,

Are you using an official controller?

when you edited the rc.local file, did you change the “wid” to just “id”? when emulationstation starts, is the top left (player 1) light lit on the controller? does it work ok for emulationstation when it asks you to setup controls for the players?

When I did the config, I have to do via the real terminal, pressing F4 when emulationstation opened, it didn’t seem to work for me when I tried doing via ssh, but I did get it working.

Let me know

Karl

hey mate,

im sure you didnt, but I think I did when I got this issue, did you do all the xbox guide stuff logged in as root? as it must be done with pi user, just a thought incase.

thanks

Hey,

Had the same problem, but now my Retropie is up and running with my 360 controller. I had a few hickups, but hey, I got mine working.

This is what I had to do (wired controller):

Download+install the driver (you’ll need internet connection for this);
sudo apt-get install xboxdrv

Edit the rc.local
sudo nano /etc/rc.local

add this text (just before the last line that says exit 0);

xboxdrv --trigger-as-button --id 0 --led 2 --deadzone 4000 --silent &
sleep 1

then reboot;
sudo reboot

After Retropie has restarted, exit to the command prompt with F4.
You should notice that there is only 1 light lit on your controller.

cd ~/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/tools
./retroarch-joyconfig -o p1.cfg -p 1 -j <strong>1</strong>

THIS IS WHERE YOUR PROBLEM AND MINE WAS LOCATED
If you follow the original instructions, you would use
./retroarch-joyconfig -o p1.cfg -p 1 -j 0
When I’ve used this line, the raspberry tried setting up controls with my keyboard. To use the x360 controller for setup, I needed to change this number to one.

The next thing I did was;
sudo cat p1.cfg >> ~/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

But this didn’t seem to do much. Even with extra permissions;

sudo chmod 777 RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
sudo cat p1.cfg >> ~/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

These commands didn’t do anything for me. So this is what I did:
sudo reboot

After rebooting and starting up, press F4 and use this command:
startx
Having a mouse connected at this point will make things much easier :)

Then look for the file browser and go to /home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/tools
In there you should find the file p1.cfg (You made this yourself)
Open this file with leafpad (or another text editor) and copy the text
Leave this text file open, as it seems to be impossible to copy this text if the file is closed.

Then go to:
/home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all
Open the retroarch.cfg file with your text editor, and paste your text in here.

Now all you have to do is log off and reboot, and see if this has worked for you.
Let me know if you had any results with this.

When you did the same thing as I did, your retroarch.cfg file should look like this (/home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all):

input_player1_joypad_index = “1”
input_player1_b_btn = “1”
input_player1_y_btn = “3”
input_player1_select_btn = “8”
input_player1_start_btn = “9”
input_player1_up_axis = “-5”
input_player1_down_axis = “+5”
input_player1_left_axis = “-4”
input_player1_right_axis = “+4”
input_player1_a_btn = “0”
input_player1_x_btn = “2”
input_player1_l_btn = “4”
input_player1_r_btn = “5”
input_player1_l2_btn = “6”
input_player1_r2_btn = “7”
input_player1_l3_btn = “11”
input_player1_r3_btn = “12”
input_player1_l_x_plus_axis = “+0”
input_player1_l_x_minus_axis = “-0”
input_player1_l_y_plus_axis = “+1”
input_player1_l_y_minus_axis = “-1”
input_player1_r_x_plus_axis = “+2”
input_player1_r_x_minus_axis = “-2”
input_player1_r_y_plus_axis = “+3”
input_player1_r_y_minus_axis = “-3”

This seems to work, but the a,b,x,y buttons are mixed for the ps1 emulator. To solve this problem, go to this directory (in startx explorer)
/home/pi/RetroPie/configs/psx

In this folder, you should open retroarch.cfg
Any changes made in this config, will overrule the basic one in the “all” folder.
So this is how this config should look (you will have to edit this yourself)

input_player1_joypad_index = “1”
input_player1_b_btn = “0”
input_player1_y_btn = “2”
input_player1_select_btn = “8”
input_player1_start_btn = “9”
input_player1_up_axis = “-5”
input_player1_down_axis = “+5”
input_player1_left_axis = “-4”
input_player1_right_axis = “+4”
input_player1_a_btn = “1”
input_player1_x_btn = “3”
input_player1_l_btn = “4”
input_player1_r_btn = “5”
input_player1_l2_btn = “6”
input_player1_r2_btn = “7”
input_player1_l3_btn = “11”
input_player1_r3_btn = “12”
input_player1_l_x_plus_axis = “+0”
input_player1_l_x_minus_axis = “-0”
input_player1_l_y_plus_axis = “+1”
input_player1_l_y_minus_axis = “-1”
input_player1_r_x_plus_axis = “+2”
input_player1_r_x_minus_axis = “-2”
input_player1_r_y_plus_axis = “+3”
input_player1_r_y_minus_axis = “-3”

Let me know if this was any use to you…

No problem buddy!

Im a NOOB in the raspberry pi thing, and i’ve been working on this a couple of days to get it right. So feel free to let me know if this has worked for you.

And don’t forget to change this (in my first reply):
./retroarch-joyconfig -o p1.cfg -p 1 -j <strong>1</strong>
into this:
./retroarch-joyconfig -o p1.cfg -p 1 -j 1

PS: I have also used this guide;

but one of the last codes (to make it pretty), bugged the emulationstation

cd RetroPie/supplementary
git clone http://github.com/elpendor/ES-scraper
cd
cd RetroPie-Setup
sudo ./retropie_setup.sh 

This code above gave me a white screen. The RetroPie still works, but you can’t see the menu. But the menu becomes visible again when you start a game and then return to the menu. This bug occurs every time my raspberry is powered on. So I would strongly advise to not execute this last step.

I have a problem setting up xbox 360 controller for retropie image ver2.2.
Emulation station detects the gamepad and I am able to do my input configuration for buttons. Once I start the game, the controller buttons wont work. Keyboard works though. Can you help me to resolve this issue?

Thanks

[quote=2577]When you did the same thing as I did, your retroarch.cfg file should look like this (/home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all):

input_player1_joypad_index = “1″
input_player1_b_btn = “1″
input_player1_y_btn = “3″
input_player1_select_btn = “8″
input_player1_start_btn = “9″
input_player1_up_axis = “-5″
input_player1_down_axis = “+5″
input_player1_left_axis = “-4″
input_player1_right_axis = “+4″
input_player1_a_btn = “0″
input_player1_x_btn = “2″
input_player1_l_btn = “4″
input_player1_r_btn = “5″
input_player1_l2_btn = “6″
input_player1_r2_btn = “7″
input_player1_l3_btn = “11″
input_player1_r3_btn = “12″
input_player1_l_x_plus_axis = “+0″
input_player1_l_x_minus_axis = “-0″
input_player1_l_y_plus_axis = “+1″
input_player1_l_y_minus_axis = “-1″
input_player1_r_x_plus_axis = “+2″
input_player1_r_x_minus_axis = “-2″
input_player1_r_y_plus_axis = “+3″
input_player1_r_y_minus_axis = “-3″

This seems to work, but the a,b,x,y buttons are mixed for the ps1 emulator. To solve this problem, go to this directory (in startx explorer)
/home/pi/RetroPie/configs/psx

In this folder, you should open retroarch.cfg
Any changes made in this config, will overrule the basic one in the “all” folder.
So this is how this config should look (you will have to edit this yourself)

input_player1_joypad_index = “1″
input_player1_b_btn = “0″
input_player1_y_btn = “2″
input_player1_select_btn = “8″
input_player1_start_btn = “9″
input_player1_up_axis = “-5″
input_player1_down_axis = “+5″
input_player1_left_axis = “-4″
input_player1_right_axis = “+4″
input_player1_a_btn = “1″
input_player1_x_btn = “3″
input_player1_l_btn = “4″
input_player1_r_btn = “5″
input_player1_l2_btn = “6″
input_player1_r2_btn = “7″
input_player1_l3_btn = “11″
input_player1_r3_btn = “12″
input_player1_l_x_plus_axis = “+0″
input_player1_l_x_minus_axis = “-0″
input_player1_l_y_plus_axis = “+1″
input_player1_l_y_minus_axis = “-1″
input_player1_r_x_plus_axis = “+2″
input_player1_r_x_minus_axis = “-2″
input_player1_r_y_plus_axis = “+3″
input_player1_r_y_minus_axis = “-3″

Let me know if this was any use to you…
[/quote]

Hello,

I turn now to xbox 360 wired pad, it is recognize by the emulation station, I can start a game and start-A-B inside, but my directions are not setup…

My problem is I do not have the file (/home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all) retroarch.cfg in the last build 2.3…

Where is the file located now?

thanks

As of 2.3 the configs are in opt/retropie/configs/

@gameroomsolutions Thanks for the reply Ryan, that video was actually fairly helpful. The info is a bit dated though, as the current version of retropie actually runs you through the button-pressing process when registering RetroArch controller via retropie_testup.sh

I was able to get my controller functioning by re-running the RetroArch controller registration after the steps you listed, and finally got buttons working correctly… but it seems like the manually-added lines for hot keys don’t work within the emulators.

I’m also using a wireless controller, so I still can’t seem to find a “happy medium” between a working config, and a setup that doesn’t leave the LEDs on the controller constantly blinking as if it’s not connected.

Has anyone else in the thread had luck w/ getting a 360 wireless controller functioning properly?