Configuring USB Game Controllers after messing up initial configuration

[petrockblog_forum]

Hey all,
I was hoping for some help…

I got RetroPi up and running, updated, roms uploaded, they all work great but now I’m struggling with my USB PS2 controller.

I some how messed up the config of the controller when I first launched RetroPi… I.E. When Emulationstation runs for the first time, it takes you through a controller configuration screen.

So the up button works as done and none of the other buttons works.

I went bouncing through /home/pi/retro pi/configs/all/retroarch.com but couldn’t seen to find what I was looking for to fix this.

I ran a jstest /dev/input/js0 and the USB PS2 controller is conected/feeding data/etc

I have all of the values of pressing each button if needed.

So how do I reconfigure the controller? Is there a command I can enter to get back to that screen? Or do I need to edit specific values in a specific file manually to fix it?

And hopefully if other people run into this down the line, then this will help it come up in Google…
My Reddit thread on this:

RetroPie/Emulation Station – Setting Up Controllers
byu/GoingOffRoading inraspberry_pi

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[petrockblog_forum]

Also I posted this in a Raspberry Pi forum where somebody was tackling a more complex PS USB issue:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=39863

[karloss]

at the bottom on the /RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg file, you will see input_player1_joypad_index stuff, delete all of that…

then drop into terminal (F4) or ssh and do this..

cd ~/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/tools

./retroarch-joyconfig -o p1.cfg -p 1 -j 0
( -o for output file, -p for player, -j for joystick id )

then do this

sudo cat p*.cfg >> ~/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

this will setup the controls for the emulators, if you need to do the emulationstation controls, delete the esconfig file in the .emulationstation folder and reboot.

good luck

[numbsphynx]

Im trying to do this and i constantly get Directory not found. I can go in open the directory in terminal but when i attempt to ./retroarch-joyconfig -o p1.cfg -p 1 -j 0 it just gives me Base File/Directory not found. Is it possible the keyboard im using is causing this? I have not been able to get a single directory to change and i know they exist.

[Chase Westlye]

I’m having the same issue numbsphynx

My retroarch is at:

/home/pi/RetroPie/Configs/All

But when I enter
cd ~/home/pi/RetroPie/Configs/All
(so same thing but the directory for retroarch.cfg changed)
I get:
“-bash: cd ~/home/pi/RetroPie/Configs/All no such file or directory”

LOL

[Chase Westlye]

Also I deleted es_systems.cfg in /home/pi/.emulationstation and reran emulationstation… This allowed me to reset the emulationstation navigation controls so now my PS2 USB controller as well as my keyboard work for navigating around emulationstation (selecting games, exiting, etc).

The keyboard works great in games, the PS USB controller is totally unresposnive.

Alsmost there!

[Chase Westlye]

ffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…………….. This is driving me nuts LOL

So I found another relative thread with similar commands…

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=42521

Here’s the code to run:

cd ~/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/tools/ &&
./retroarch-joyconfig -p 1 -j 1 >> ~/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

So I type that in and I still get:

“-bash: cd ~/home/pi/RetroPie/Configs/All no such file or directory”

I did a search in WinSCP and the retroarch-joyconfig is found at:

/home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/tools

ALMOST THERE!

[Chase Westlye]

[quote=1941]Im trying to do this and i constantly get Directory not found. I can go in open the directory in terminal but when i attempt to ./retroarch-joyconfig -o p1.cfg -p 1 -j 0 it just gives me Base File/Directory not found. Is it possible the keyboard im using is causing this? I have not been able to get a single directory to change and i know they exist. [/quote]

1941… Try this…

In Console, type: pwd… That will tell you what directory you are in.

Then type CD /home/pi/

Type PWD and you should see:

/home/pi/

Then tyoe: ls -F

It’ll get you all of the folders and files in that directory that you can CD to

I was able to get to the cd ~/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/tools/ folder this way but still haven’t figure out how to get joyconfig to run

[Chase Westlye]

Ok… So once I do the little trick above to get the CD to be the /tools/ folder, I’m able to run this:

./retroarch-joyconfig -0//./RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

And the config runs!

Unfortunately when I go to RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg and check the file, there are no joystick inputs in the file (so the config never took).

Ideas?

[Anonymous]

Yeah, this confused me for a while as well, but here’s what you need to do.
What you need to do is take the output of /home/pi/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/tools/retroarch-joyconfig and add it to the end of /home/pi/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

Just pipe the output of retroarch-joyconfig into a file and append that file to the end of retroarch.cfg

That should do it.

[petrockblog_forum]

I.E. I create a blank file called whatever.cfg

and when I have the command in the right file, run something like:

./retroarch-joyconfig -o -p1 -j0 whatever.cfg

And then copy it into the retroarch.cfg

Brilliant (I don’t mean that sarcastically, I really appreciate it!)!!!

[karloss]

missed the sudo commands..

at the bottom on the /RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg file, you will see input_player1_joypad_index stuff, delete all of that…
then drop into terminal (F4) or ssh and do this..

cd ~/RetroPie/emulators/RetroArch/tools

sudo ./retroarch-joyconfig -o p1.cfg -p 1 -j 0
( -o for output file, -p for player, -j for joystick id )

then do this

sudo cat p*.cfg >> ~/RetroPie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

this will setup the controls for the emulators, if you need to do the emulationstation controls, delete the esconfig file in the .emulationstation folder and reboot.

good luck

[Author]

Posts