[natecbc]

methylamine,

Thank you for your response. I do appreciate you getting back to me.
Do you have any insight into why this is such a complicated process or why there isn’t one straightforward way of doing this?

Second…I honestly have no clue what I’m doing. When reading through the github aid I’m at a loss.

It says: “The third possibility, you can use an init.d script with the daemon -D Option. Save the follwing content to /etc/init.d/xboxdrv”

Am I supposed to type out that long section of code? Am I supposed to see some prompt? File manager shows that the directory /etc/init.d/xboxdrv doesn’t exist and the SSH shows the same. Is that because I’m supposed to create it? If so it doesn’t explain how to do that.

I made sure to run the $ sudo apt-get install xboxdrv first with success but after that I might as well be playing marco polo in the dark, in a place I’ve never been before all tied up.

I really want to learn but it seems like people who know linux talk to others in language that people who know linux would understand; and everyone else sinks or swims. Tribal knowledge type stuff.

I’m a much better visual learner so reading articles and forums that have lots of terminology I don’t know with code and functions I don’t understand is like being dropped in a foreign country with people that doesn’t speak English and being nearly blind.

Can you tell I’m a bit stressed? :/

[natecbc]

^^^ Same as this post’s author. I have zero experience with Linux and zero experience with terminal commands. Most of the recommendations expect you’ll know what buttons to push and how to save files. There seems to be some knowledge that is presumed.

I’ve yet to find a video that provides a working solution for the current retropie release and none that walk nOObs through this. I’ve spend more than 10 hours trying to get a controller set up.

I’m confused at how such a popular emulation platform for such a popular computer doesn’t have a very straight forward process for something as basic as controller set-up.

Secondarily I’m surprised that given the number of people reporting trouble getting their controllers to work that someone hasn’t created a definitive walk-through for beginners or that a patch hasn’t been released to make this better.

It took me all of a few hours to get the image flashed to the SD card, and put some Roms on it. At least 3 times that has been spent on controller configuration failures.

[natecbc]

Is there a video that demonstrates how to do any of these configurations? Preferably the one you recommended from github?

Is there a particular reason why this is so difficult to set up? I would think that with such a popular emulation platform for the Raspberry Pi that even the 10 most common controllers would be pre-mapped or you could at least easily configure them.

This has been an extremely frustrating process. Raspberry Pi is my first experience with Linux and terminal commands. I feel absolutely lost.

I watched the following videos to set up retropie:

Install: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL4bcQOkULM
Add Roms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhQ3Vs2tyUw,
Controller Config: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhQ3Vs2tyUw

For the life of me I can not figure out the controller issue. Help please!!!

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