Hello,

I just started with RetroPie and I absolutely love it. I’ve built in my Raspberry in a SNES console with the original working Power button, reset button and power LED. It looks awesome! If you want pic’s i can give them! :) But i have one problem which i can’t seem to fix.

I searched and searched but could not find any answer so i’ll try my luck here.

I’m having troubles with RetroPie controlling two controllers. Here is my setup.

Raspberry Pi 1 with 4GB SD Card with RetroPie 3.5 installed (also tried a fresh 3.6)
16GB USB Stick attached for the ROM Storage
WiFi Dongle attached
Wireless Keyboard and Mouse dongle attached
D-Link 7 ports USB hub is powering the Pi and provides extra USB ports
2 after market SNES cloned controllers, they are named in their chip “usb gamepad ”

Problem:
When starting Super Mario World in 2 player mode i can’t control luigi with the second controller, it does not react but it will only react on the first controller. Donkey Kong Country does not work at all, the D-Pad does not react. Super Mario Kart does not work at all. Can’t even press start or B.

What i noticed:
When starting the game when the automatic controller configuration is active it says that it sees the two controllers in that yellow text left below, It says USB Gamepad connected on 0 and after that on 1. So the controllers are recognized. Also they both work fine in Emulationstation. Havent tried another system. I did try instead of Pocketsnes the Snes9x emulator but that doesnt even work with the first controller.

What i tried:
* two different controllers (that SNES controller and an Logitech Dual Action) didnt work.
* Tried to hard-code the controller configuration in retroarch.cfg with putting the autodetection to false and set the player1 and player2 controls. Saw a youtube video of 30 minutes about this :) didnt work afterwards.
* deleting existing controller config, reboot and let emulationstation do the whole thing again. (Both the controller.cfg and the ES_config.cfg) First setup controller one, then from the menu setup controller two. Didnt work. Although the two controllers can be used in Emulationstation.

I’m breaking my brains here on this. This afternoon i will try my Raspberry Pi 3 to see if that will work fine.

Hope that somebody can help me!

Thanks!

Best Regards,
Cl3tus