[jjmiller1980]

I finally have it working! I just spent a ton of time changing things and trying to fix it. In the process, I ended up accidentally breaking it for my SNES controller, but I now have both my SNES controller and my 6-button Genesis controllers working.

I believe (I’m not 100% sure) that the root of the problem was that in this file:

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

the input_enable_hotkey value was commented out. Like I said, I believe that was the problem, but I can’t be 100% sure because I played around for quite a while.

Thank you once again for your help!

[jjmiller1980]

First off, thank you for your help and quick responses. I’m fairly new to all this, so I appreciate the help.

So F1 did work and got me into the retroarch menu. I went through the process as described to enable 6 button controller for player 1. I then went to the retroarch.cfg and configured it like this:

# All settings made here will override the global settings for the current emulator core

video_shader = /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/shader/phosphor.glslp
video_shader_enable = false
video_smooth = false

input_player1_b_btn = “1”
input_player1_y_btn = “0”
input_player1_a_btn = “2”
input_player1_x_btn = “4”
input_player1_l_btn = “3”
input_player1_r_btn = “6”

input_player1_start_btn = “9”
input_player1_select_btn = “7”

input_enable_hotkey_btn = “7”
input_exit_emulator = “9”
input_save_state = “3”
input_load_state = “6”

As it stands now, the 6 face buttons seem to work (yay!). However, the hotkey doesn’t seem to work. When I test my controller using JSTEST, the MODE button does work, and responds as 7. When I try hitting MODE and START to exit the game, nothing happens. Same with save state & load state.

I also went to /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/config and opened up the cfg for my controller, and this is how that is set up, I’m not sure if it matters or not:

input_device = “Mayflash Ltd Mayflash MD USB Adapter”
input_driver = “udev”
input_b_btn = “1”
input_y_btn = “0”
input_select_btn = “7”
input_start_btn = “9”
input_up_btn = “12”
input_down_btn = “14”
input_left_btn = “15”
input_right_btn = “13”
input_a_btn = “2”
input_x_btn = “4”
input_l_btn = “3”
input_r_btn = “6”

input_enable_hotkey_btn = “7”
input_exit_emulator = “9”

Any thoughts?

[jjmiller1980]

I must be missing something, and I’m not sure what. When I enter a game, and hit select + x, nothing happens. Here’s what I’ve done.

• Exited EmulationStation
• Go to retropie_setup.sh
• Take the option for SETUP
• Take the option for “Register RetroArch controller
• set up the controller how you’ve specified in the page I linked to before, and set the MODE button for “select”

When I do this, the D-pad, A, B, C, and start buttons work as expected. Nothing else works. In your document, you say to launch a game and hit select + x. So I hit the MODE button (which I set up as select) and the X button on the controller (both the actual X button which is mapped as “left bottom”, and the Y button, which is mapped as X). Nothing happens. I even tried holding the MODE button and the X button on the keyboard. I don’t get a retroarch menu.

When this didn’t happen, I went into /opt/retropie/configs/megadrive/retroarch.cfg and manually input the input_player1… mappings that you specified (but with my button numbers), and this also didn’t work. What am I doing wrong?

[jjmiller1980]

OK, I figured this out. Shockingly, it was user error. When I did another ls /dev/input, I noticed that it shows js1 as well as js0. I just automatically did js0 before, because that’s what the USB SNES controller was. Turns out, on my adapter, the port on the right is player 1, or js0. I set it up that way and it works now.

Sorry about that. Learning.

[jjmiller1980]

As more information, I did some looking and found JSTEST. I installed and ran it, and it also does not recognize any of the button presses for the SNES controller using an adapter.

I’m not sure where to go from here.

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