Xbox 360 d-pad not responding in emulators

[wocketpatch]

I’ve manually configured my wireless 360 controller in
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg (I got the layout from jstest)
and everything seems to be more or less working in most emulators except the up-down-left-right pad. Nothing happens. If I assign the movement functions to other buttons they work fine using
input_player1_up_btn
but according to jstest, the d-pad is registering as axis 4 and 5, not as buttons. I also tried
input_player1_up_axis
instead of btn, but that doesn’t seem to do anything either. The d-pad does work perfectly fine navigating the menus in emulationstation.

Interestingly, when I did the initial setup for my keyboard controls in the controller setup within emulationstation, I notice the keys I selected are listed in the retroarch.cfg but I don’t see the settings for my xbox controller in there anywhere even though I did set up both the keyboard and the xbox controller for emulationstation through the same utility.

Anyone have any idea how to get the d-pad to register? It doesn’t respond in all emulators as far as I can tell.

Thanks!

[wocketpatch]

Well I figured it out, evidently the D-pad is considered “hats”. There is no indication of this in jstest, but all the same this worked for the wireless xbox 360 usb controller’s d-pad buttons:

input_player1_left_btn = “h0left”
input_player1_right_btn = “h0right”
input_player1_up_btn = “h0up”
input_player1_down_btn = “h0down”

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