How to setup a controller in 2.2 ???

[Parasomnia]

I have downloaded the newest image (2.2), put it on my card and put some roms in the folder via startx ( copy from my usb stick).
Teh games working in Emulationstation but my joypad don’t.

I can just setup the controls for up,down,left,right,A,B,Start,Select,Page up &down…

In the last image before(1.9 and 1.10),there was this nice option where I could change the buttons from the Emulationstation menu.They worked perfect then in the Genesis,SNES etc Emulators.

Where is it now – or is it gone in this Version? That would be awful…
How can I setup my joypad now ( It is a SNES Clone btw.)

Thanks people

[zsprawl]

sudo chown pi /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
cd /opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/installdir/bin
sudo ./retroarch-joyconfig -j 1 >> /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

[Parasomnia]

Ok Thanks zSprawl
But is this the only way? I mean type in this huge command? There was this good and easy option before, why is it gone. I dont get it…

[zsprawl]

I’m not certain, unfortunately. It seems that GUI option was removed. However, once it is setup, you shouldn’t need to mess with it again.

[Parasomnia]

Good I will do it that way. Thanks again for your help.
Maybe someone will find the old option – I can’t still believe that they forgot it to put it in. ^^
It was so easy and perfect…

[zsprawl]

Press F1 when in-game. :)

[Parasomnia]

Strange.
When I Enter this last command :

sudo ./retroarch-joyconfig -j 1 >> /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

It Says couldnt open Joystick 1.

And when I press F1 in any Emulator nothing happends either…

[zsprawl]

Try other values for -j. Like 0 or 2.

sudo ./retroarch-joyconfig -j 0 >> /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

or

sudo ./retroarch-joyconfig -j 2 >> /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

[daisyjennings]

i have been trying to set up my controller for a few hours now and to no prevail, i was using a guide on the internet that i can only assume used an older version of retrobut apart from the many problems i have had while trying to set up my pi ican’t find any of the files mentioned such as /configs/all..i created one and put an apt file in but they weren’t there before, i can set up my controller to controll emulationstation menus but no further, meaning all the roms are installed and my pi all ready i just can’t play :'( HELP?

[daisyjennings]

ok, my bad this might now be working

[daisyjennings]

ok this did work but i have set the buttons up wrong, take 3 or maybe 4, yes im a tit

[ryan]

When I run the command above, everything is great, but it is asking me to configure more buttons than my controller has. I am using an SNES style controller, but the button values look like something for an n64 controller or similar. Am I ok to just pick any old button to get through the buttons I don’t have on the controller, or is this an indication that controller isn’t being recognized properly?

[zsprawl]

[quote=12925]When I run the command above, everything is great, but it is asking me to configure more buttons than my controller has. I am using an SNES style controller, but the button values look like something for an n64 controller or similar. Am I ok to just pick any old button to get through the buttons I don’t have on the controller, or is this an indication that controller isn’t being recognized properly?[/quote]

I have the same issue. I just pick a button like left paddle for all of these buttons/controls that I do not have.

Then open up the file, and delete those lines.

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

[ryan]

well… I’m not familiar with how to edit the file. The bottom two lines (with what look like they would be the help commands are cut off the tv. Is there a way to edit it from with the gui?

[zsprawl]

I SSH into the box and edit the file, but if you haven’t used linux, I’m not sure how to help.

Maybe get an X-box controller that has all the controls? /shrug

Or download putty and SSH into the box. :)

[smatticus]

cyberduck or wincsp are your friends on windows, both offer a simple winowed interface that allows navigation of the files via mouse/keyboard. you could also use startx to do the same from the pi itself. or you press f4 to get to the command prompt and type sudo nano /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg and then arrow down to the end where it should say “input_player1_l2_btn = “4” ” and so on , just delete everything from there down and then press control+x to save, then press Y and then ENTER. type sudo reboot and you’re good to go

[borlandoflorida]

Strange.
When I Enter this last command :

sudo ./retroarch-joyconfig -j 1 >> /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

It Says couldnt open Joystick 1.

And when I press F1 in any Emulator nothing happends either…

I have the same issue. Any help would be appreciated!

[borlandoflorida]

I managed to fix this by changing the hot key button to F2 on the keyboard the having the menu button assigned to F1. I hold F2 down then press F1 and hey presto. I could then edit the input settings etc and save it as a new .cfg file. I would need to SSH into the directory and rename it retroarch.cfg to get it working though.

[Matias]

how can you exit an emulator in from the controller in retropie 2.2??? No one seems to be able to answer that :(

[Anonymous]

Exiting the emulator with the controller has been discussed many times. It works the same in 2.2 as in older versions.

You have to set up a hot key so that you press select + start. Try adding the following lines to the config file.

input_enable_hotkey_btn = “8”
input_exit_emulator_btn = “9”

[keven the tank]

ok so I’ve followed your instructions to the letter i get couldn’t open joystick #0. also i cant seem to get it to find the roms there installed and ready.

[Al]

I am using 2.2 as well and have followed all the steps above. When I press F2 (changed it from F1) nothing happens in game. I may have missed something with this one.

I have tried to configure controller 2 followed this (sudo chown pi /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
cd /opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/installdir/bin
sudo ./retroarch-joyconfig -j 1 >> /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg) it takes the commands of controller 2 but does not work in game. I have changed -j 1 to 0 and to 2 (which controller 2 seems to be seen on -j 0 and controller 1 is -j 1).

Not sure what I maybe doing wrong.

[Ken Walton]

G’day,

what i found was that its not saving the config file because i permisions?

i just started an emulator (e.g. SNES) pressed F1 to bring up the menu, went through the process of mapping the USB Gamepad, change the directory in with the config file got saved (e.g. to the Desktop) and hit save.
Then i exited Emulationstation (F4) booted into LXDE (startx) found the directory that retroarch.cfg was saved into (opt/retropie/emulators/all/) ? thats only a guess, im at work atm, so i cant remember the exact adrress , deleted it, and moved the saved config file from where i saved it (in this case the desktop) to where the old retroarch.cfg file was, and then renamed it to “retroarch.cfg” as it was something like “retroarch-07212014.cfg”

and that was it, rebooted back into Emulation station and all the controller config was saved and still working.

Thats how it worked for me anyways :-)

Cheers
– Ken

[A]

Hey there Ken and thanks for getting back with me. My other problem is within a game pressing F1 does nothing for me (forgot how I did it but changed it to F2 and still does nothing for me.) Any idea what commands I need to use to apply F1 to work on my keyboard within a game?

Thanks.

[A]

Forgot to mention that F4 does work for me. Just F1 does nothing what so ever.

[Al]

I just got the 2.3 image. Having the same problem that controller two does not work in games (even though this command the controller will program, just not function. sudo chown pi /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
cd /opt/retropie/emulators/RetroArch/installdir/bin
sudo ./retroarch-joyconfig -j 1 >> /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg)

F1 not working in games either. For some reason it only shows up if I launch and exit the doom port but F1 is never pressed, just shows up when exited out of the game and configuration does not save.

When I open the menu inside of emulationstation, there are some glitches with the menu. If I go to scrapper all the text inside of that are square looking letter instead of readable letters.

Also installed Quake 3 from the setup menu but when launching the game it says failed to launch and cannot find ioquake3.arm.

[imgpoz]

I have the newest image (2.3) and in both 2.2 and this I have not been able to get my joystick/controller to work. The keyboard works fine in ES, but not in an of the Emulators and when I try from the command line to configure the joystick I get the error message “Couldn’t open joystick #0″. I’ve tried changing the joystick code to 1, 2, etc. but no luck.

Has anyone been able to configure their joysticks? Am I missing a driver or perhaps since I’ve got my Arcade joystick plugged into a Keyboard encoder (along with a real keyboard in the pass through) and then into my Pi, is there a conflict?

I can’t wait to really try RetroPie/Emulation Station but this is driving me crazy.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Thanks, found this really helpful. Up and running in 1/2hr.

[Edri Espinoza]

Gracias. Toda esta información me fue útil. Pude configurar mi Joystick MaxFire Blaze3 correctamente, también la configuración de video. Y lo uso con un televisor. RCA obviamente. (Thanks, all the information here were really useful, i could correctly configure my MaxFire Blaze3 Gamepad, and the video settings too, and i’m using it with an RCA TV.

[Elliot]

I am having issues setting my 2 wireless xbox controllers configured within RetroArch.

I followed the directions in the wiki, both are recognized/tested with jstest and work in Emulation Station. (Running v 2.2)

Now, I am trying to get the controllers set up with RetroArch. When I run the retroarch-joystick command ./retroarch-joyconfig -o p1.cfg -p 1 -j 0 to output to a config file, the utility stops on

`
Configuring binds for player #1 on joypad #0

B button (down)
`

and just sits there. I also tried configuring these from the retropie_setup script. From there, it gets to goes past that step but every button gives a timed out message.

Any help would be great, thanks!

[Michael]

Hello,
everything works great. Thank you so far. But there is still one problem left:
On my wireless Xbox 360 controller is everything functional except the “START” Button. Everytime I use “START” the game ends (via console) and the emulations´menu is popping up. I´m also using an Alienware Gamepad which is working 100% fine. I used the configuration – with both of them – via sudo ./RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh since the manual change didnt want to work.
Also every driver has been updated… It would be nice if the 360 Controller config could be fixed because “START” is still quite important :D
Thank you so far

[Daniel]

I have been trying for a bit now and I have no directory named anything close to retroarch

[Ben]

What do you need that folder for? Are you trying to manually edit a file?

[RedX]

Elliot my Xbox controllers are doing exactly the same thing did you find a fix?

[tsimcox]

There’s a GUI. Hit F1 during emulation, then use the keys you set in emulationstation to navigate to settings, then input options, and configure your keys

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