Atari 9-pin Controllers won't go UP or LEFT – fix enclosed for compiling :)

[IIeBoy]

Firstly, and again, thank you to the developer for making RetroPie exist. I have had a really nostalgic and fun time with my project “Apple Piie” (see my other thread) and almost everything is working now as it should, with a few exceptions.

As you may know, there is an issue with all the popular Atari 9-pin joystick > USB adapters, such as those on Amazon. Basically UP and LEFT on the joystick are not recognized during the Input config process.

This affects a lot of people and so has been solved at a href=”http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=36564&hilit=atari+joystick+left+up&start=25

Could you kindly compile the fix into the next update?

[Necromancyr]

Aside from the spam post above, wanted to bump the OP since if this could be built into RetroPie I think it would be a HUGE help in getting everything working easily.

[ervine]

Same here, I am using the Innex USB converter to connect two Suzo Arcade joysticks. I have tested this with 2.3 and 3.0b1. Same symptoms, and can be solved like this:

https://github.com/robmcmullen/hid-atari-retrobit/blob/master/README.rst

Can you consider using this in the retropie distro?

[ervine]

Tested with 3.1 and issue still exists. This makes Retropie useless to me as a replacement for PC-based Amiga and C64 emulators.

Could you please compile this fix in a next update?

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