[w3ace]

Nice job k-bert, I thought I read somewhere that you couldn’t double up on the power and gnd without risking the controller circuitry. Looks like you’ve got it working, and playing the games is the biggest risk/reward to getting projects done in retro gaming.

herbfargus, I made another post in this section of the forum about some experimentation with Jessie (BETA) and my issues with gamecon not loading on boot, do you know who might be working on getting Jessie out of beta, should I post my results to github or somewhere else?

[w3ace]

k-bert, have you see this? My NES Pi Zero.

[w3ace]

It would be great if the gamecon script had an option to setup for whatever controller you are using. However some of it is now not necessary because of the way emulationstation configures your joypads on startup.

[w3ace]

I would start over if I was you.

1. Install Image.
2. raspi-config -> expand image
3. reboot
4. retropie_setup -> configure wifi
5. gamecon setup … DO NOT let it configure for SNES.
6. Add a line to /etc/modules -> gamecon_gpio_rpi map=0,0,2,0,0,0

That works for me.

[w3ace]

Two places to look that could get you working:

Get rid of SNES here:
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/

Look here: I think I’ve seen people recommend removing this file and letting emulationstation rebuild (but look inside first)
~/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg

Caution: but maybe something here.
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

[w3ace]

Did you by any chance install SNESdev from the retropie_setup menu? I had troubles with GPIO when I installed that by mistake. If you did, you may want to start over with a fresh image.

[w3ace]

The gamecon_gpio_rpi script will install SNES controllers by default.

Check your /etc/modules files. It probably reads:

gamecon_gpio_rpi map=0,0,1,0,0,1

Change the ones to twos (NES).

-Craig

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