D-Pad buttons are not recognized when running RetroPie emulationstation

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I’m using ‘master’ branch of ‘RetroPie-Setup’ and its hash is 6e80c1bdc33284386a8a33ca7d7485070b446da4

I saw that someone on the forum had already successfully gotten RetroPie to work, so I figured it would be no big deal, but crucially, the D-Pad is not recognized and the screen is displayed directly in the X-window running, but rotated 90 degrees in the Console state. I can’t proceed with the Emulationstation initial setup because my D-Pad buttons are not recognized.

I’d love some advice from those who have already successfully set up RetroPie.

I also applied the SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG setting, but the VVVVVV game doesn’t detect anything but the ‘A’ button.

Thanks in Advance

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yo! you can try this
Fixing detected gamepad in some games

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Thank you for your reply. But that was exactly what I did.

After recompiling RetroPie master branch, D-Pad are now working. BUT no other keys yet.

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I just figured out what was wrong. The input should be split between keyboard and joystick.
(~/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg)

  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <inputList>
    <inputConfig type="joystick" deviceName="ClockworkPI uConsole" vendorId="7855" productId="36" deviceGUID="030000fdaf1e00002400000010010000">
      <input name="a" type="button" id="1" value="1" />
      <input name="b" type="button" id="2" value="1" />
      <input name="hotkeyenable" type="button" id="8" value="1" />
      <input name="select" type="button" id="8" value="1" />
      <input name="start" type="button" id="9" value="1" />
      <input name="x" type="button" id="0" value="1" />
      <input name="y" type="button" id="3" value="1" />
    </inputConfig>
	<inputConfig type="keyboard" deviceName="Keyboard" deviceGUID="-1">
		<input name="down" type="key" id="1073741905" value="1" />
		<input name="left" type="key" id="1073741904" value="1" />
		<input name="right" type="key" id="1073741903" value="1" />
		<input name="up" type="key" id="1073741906" value="1" />
	</inputConfig>
  </inputList>
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It looks like the gamepad’s function is controlled by a switch at the back of the keyboard.

I haven’t verify it yet, but I found the switches.

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I figured out why buttons were not working in VVVVVV game and others.
It was simply because of wrong value of SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG. (I copied and pasted its value from somewhere in this forum before)

Anyway, the correct value are x:b0,a:b1,b:b2,y:b3,back:b8,start:b9

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I search where to add this line… .profile ?

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The following configuration in ~/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg is for EmulationStation (RetroPie)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
  <inputList>
    <inputConfig type="joystick" deviceName="ClockworkPI uConsole" vendorId="7855" productId="36" deviceGUID="030000fdaf1e00002400000010010000">
      <input name="a" type="button" id="1" value="1" />
      <input name="b" type="button" id="2" value="1" />
      <input name="hotkeyenable" type="button" id="8" value="1" />
      <input name="select" type="button" id="8" value="1" />
      <input name="start" type="button" id="9" value="1" />
      <input name="x" type="button" id="0" value="1" />
      <input name="y" type="button" id="3" value="1" />
    </inputConfig>
	<inputConfig type="keyboard" deviceName="Keyboard" deviceGUID="-1">
		<input name="down" type="key" id="1073741905" value="1" />
		<input name="left" type="key" id="1073741904" value="1" />
		<input name="right" type="key" id="1073741903" value="1" />
		<input name="up" type="key" id="1073741906" value="1" />
	</inputConfig>
  </inputList>

And also you may need to add the following line into ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc, depending on your shell. I personally prefer to add in /etc/environment. (In that case, you don’t need to ‘export’)

export SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG="030000fdaf1e00002400000010010000,ClockworkPI uConsole,platform:Linux,a:b1,b:b2,x:b0,y:b3,back:b8,start:b9,leftx:a0,lefty:a1,"

Then, you need to logout/login once at least before to launch PICO-8 or VVVVVV or other SDL based games.

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How do I obtain the deviceGUID? Is the uConsole used by everyone the same?

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It s strange because gamepad works very well with ppsspp emulator. When I use retropie, gamepad seems not detected, or as another gamepad. I tried all above on this page…still message in retropie “Uconsole gamepad not configured” when I launch a game.

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Is it possible to add the mouse buttons “L” and “R” as shoulder buttons?

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I finally managed to get two emulators working with the gamepad: PPSSPPX and REDREAM. Both support gamepad buttons and also (START, SELECT, L and R)