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SigmaX:

--- Quote from: newmanfamilyvlogs on April 23, 2020, 08:09:22 pm ---You're to the point where that first thread trailed off and never got a reply.
They stated that it didn't work in the front-end (which is what you're seeing), but never responded if it worked within RetroArch, the actual emulator.

In a normal RetroPie setup, you configure the controller in ES, emulationstation, and then the buttons in RetroArch automatically map. Since ES isn't picking up how the input is configured out of the gate, it's worth checking to see if RA sees it either. To do that you'd want to connect a keyboard, configure that, and launch a game, then see if from within the menus of RA you can configure those buttons. If RA won't see the buttons that's when you're going to have to get into the weeds with compiling drivers or the like to get the inputs mapped to somewhere it knows to look.

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I've been working on it a bit more and it looks like I can use my Windows PC to configure the buttons on the Howler to be Keyboard buttons. I think my right stick movement is not wired correctly because it's not working (It's been moved around so much it's not surprising wires are falling out). So I'll take a look at that tomorrow.

Otherwise, it seems to be working fine if I use the control board as a keyboard instead of a joystick. Which is awesome! There is only one game included on the retropie and I can't really seem to get it to run, so I'll have to also look at adding games to the system. But I'm pretty excited that thinks have actually been working!

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