I had the same issue with my controller- exact same as yours. For some reason the autoconfig with retroarch had issues and I had to manually set them in the retroarch.cfg file. I put in my custom controls and changed autoenable from true to false (you’ll know if you did it right by the yellow joypad text not showing up when you start a game)

Have you tried changing

input_up_axis = "-32767"
input_down_axis = "+32767"
input_left_axis = "-32767"
input_right_axis = "+32767"

to

input_up_axis = "-1"
input_down_axis = "+1"
input_left_axis = "-0"
input_right_axis = "+0"

The only other difference on mine, is that my first line says
input_device = “USB Gamepad ”
rather than
input_device = “USB gamepad ”

but then I think thats specific to my controller so I wouldnt worry about that.

If you manually change it to the -1 etc.. above make sure the quotes are just as the other examples in the file (or just dont change them basically).

I’m assuming you havent changed anything in any of the retroarch.cfg files.

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Rename to .cfg

If any of the above steps didn’t work for anyone, this is what I did to get my dpad to work:

I went into

/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

and changed

# Axis for RetroArch D-Pad. 
# Needs to be either '+' or '-' in the first character signaling either positive or negative direction of the axis, then the axis number. 
# Do note that every other input option has the corresponding _btn and _axis binds as well; they are omitted here for clarity.
# input_player1_left_axis = 
# input_player1_right_axis = 
# input_player1_up_axis = 
# input_player1_down_axis = 

to

# Axis for RetroArch D-Pad. 
# Needs to be either '+' or '-' in the first character signaling either positive or negative direction of the axis, then the axis number. 
# Do note that every other input option has the corresponding _btn and _axis binds as well; they are omitted here for clarity.
 input_player1_left_axis = -0
 input_player1_right_axis = +0
 input_player1_up_axis = -1
 input_player1_down_axis = +1

Hi.

(I have the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, with retropie v3.0 beta2 on it and I have these controllers http://www.ebay.com/itm/291352700689 – though that shouldnt matter since they work until I start a game, and I’ve tried a ton)

I have the same problem. My D-Pad doesn’t work “in-game” , but it works in the menu etc. I’ve tried what’s been written above, copy/pasted the files into my current files, but without any success.
Though I have not changed (don’t know if it’s the correct one or even if I’m supposed to change that one) /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/retroarch.cfg it just says permission denied.

On the other hand, I have changed the /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg with the text posted above. I have also changed the /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/configs/USB_Gamepad_.cfg with the text above.

Nothing seem to be working, the D-Pad still doesn’t work.

T

To fix it though I deleted all the automatically created config files and let it create a new one. This time it worked perfectly with my SNES controllers working without the need to go near the retroarch.cfg file.

Which files is that exactly? Because I have no idea about this stuff.

If you are using Version 3 Beta 2 I am starting to think there might be a problem with the autoconfig files.

My fix was as follows:
1 – Backup all files under config
2 – Delete them all
3 – Reconfigure each joypad using RetroPie Setup script and Joystick setup

EDIT: Just saw this one. I tried (Im accessing it through filezilla etc, hope thats the correct way to do this?) to delete the files, but I keep getting the ”Permission Denied” error…

EDIT: Found it on the forum:

for mame4all-pi, other emulator edits
sudo chown -R pi:pi /opt/retropie/emulators/

But still doesn’t work. Just reinstalled retropie and doing everything again to see if it helps.

EDIT:

Ok, so I reinstalled the whole thing. Then deleted all the config files /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/configs and rebooted – now nothing worked, even after input configure.

Then put the config files back and edited USB_Gamepad_ in the config folder, and the retroarch.cfg file in /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch and in /opt/retropie/configs/all.

Still… D-Pad doesn’t work.

Hopefully you guys can help me out!

I just did what you wrote… T H A N K Y O U!

You have no idea how wonderful it is to finally get it to work after 5-6 hours of failing yesterday! Again – thanks! I can now die happy!

If you are using RetroPie 3 beta 4, and the config via Emulation Station isnt working for you, try removing the files here

“cd /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads”
Then you can see whats there with “ls”
You can delete them all
“rm *.cfg”

Then recreate by running the retropie-setup script and choosing the register retroarch joypad option.

If I was you I’d be tempted to remove those configs with
“rm /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/*.cfg”

Then run the controller registration for retroarch.
You can do this with
“sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/./retropie_setup.sh”

Then choose 3 – Setup
Then “Configure input devices for RetroArch”

That will then prompt you to press the buttons on your controller.

This video shows how to set the analogue stick to work as well.