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Stadia gamepads & pi4b bullseye bluetooth disconnects

All right, My setup consist of a RPi 4b 4gb, 4 stadia controllers, Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye. OS on SSD connected through powered USB3 hub, also a Coral USB connected. Power should be ok. The ...
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Two I2C NES mini controllers on the same I2C bus?

Is it possible to connect two nes i2c nes controllers onto the same i2c bus? I will guess that is not possible if the i2c addresses of these controllers are hard coded to a common value. Any ideas? If ...
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Retropie - Cable-connected PS3 Controller crazy/ghost moves

Greetings to the community! I have set up my raspberry pi 4 with retropie, connected it through an HDMI cable to my monitor and boot it ready to play. I connected a PS3 controller I own through a ...
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Mapping gamepad controls in RetroPie (for MAME2003 arcade games)

I want to remap some game-pad controls for a specific game (in this example it is Missile Command) When I use select + X buttons on my game-pad to bring up the menu and select Port 1 Controls I get ...
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Is it okay to make a Retro Gaming device with Raspberry Pi 4?

I am trying to make a Retro gaming device with MAME. But I have to know that is it okay to make such device with Raspberry Pi? Can Raspberry Pi take the pressure of gaming for a long time? Or it will ...
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PC/Xbox Controller servo control

I am making a project where I want to use a PC/Xbox controller to control my servos with analog sticks. I've been following this tutorial and I've used the code down below to control my servo motor ...
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Can I use SNES controller parts for my raspberry pi?

I am planning on making a handheld console for a school project. I am new to raspberry pi and plan on using the raspberry pi 3 model b. Can I use the buttons and dpad out of a SNES controller?
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How do I connect two wires to one GPIO pin?

I plan to have a display (4-Wire SPI TFT LCD Display Module 240x320) connected to a Pi Zero: I know that to connect the display I need to wire the screen to the Pi like so: Display--------Raspberry ...
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No Gamepad Detected using SNES USB

I'm using a USB SNES Controller adapter I made using a PIC32MX as a USB HID Gamepad. I've been using it with Windows machines for a while without any issues. It seems to work everywhere except in ES/...
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PS4 Controller Over Bluetooth for Retropie / EmulationStation Won't Configure

I have read multiple posts and have not found a solution to this problem, and I'm not much of a programmer. Here's what I've done so far: Downloaded a fresh install of Retropie from here (https://...
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My USB SNES controllers are too laggy - is this fixable?

I bought a Pi 3 a while back with some cheap SNES controllers from Ali Express. After setting RetroPie up it worked wonderfully, except that the controller latency is very high and makes a lot of ...
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RetroPie & PS3 Controller over Bluetooth

I've got a Raspberry Pie 3 (w/ built-in BT), and RetroPie 4.0.2 is installed and working on it. I've got 2 brand new PS3 controllers (I do not own a PS3) and they work with the RetroPie over the USB ...
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Microsoft Xbox 360 pad and Kodi mapping issues - Retropie 4.0

I installed Retropie 4.0 on a Raspberry 3 and everything went really smooth. Being the Media Center a core part of the plan I installed Kodi from optional repos, no problem at all. Everything nice ...
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RetroPie + Ultracabs USB 2 player interface

I have running on my Raspberry 3 RetroPie 4.0-rc1. There are many nice tutorials to when it comes to install it and setup the roms even just a few cover the most important thing: the gamepads! Each ...
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Toggle Switch for Flight Simulator

I want to built a custom 5 toggle switch controller for my flight simulator that is running on my Windows 7 pc. I have some programming experience but I am not sure where to start. Basically I would ...
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Which bluetooth gamepads are compatible with RetroPie?

I want to set up a RasPi 3 for games with RetroPie. I have a WiFi and a Bluetooth dongle (BT 4.0) and now would like to buy one or two BT gamepads. Which are useful and/or compatible and of good ...
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How to get input from an USb xbox 360 controller?

I'm trying to use my wired xbox 360 controller with my Raspberry Pi 3, however xboxdrv seems to not recognize it. I read it could be a power issue because the USB ports on the Raspberry could not ...
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Trying to use PiGRRL 2.0 Custom Gamepad PCB but there's no documentation on how to program the buttons

I have this gamepad PCB from Adafruit: https://www.adafruit.com/products/3015 In their guide it's supposed to work with the file they give you but that image only works on raspberry pi 2 and I'm ...
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Pairing retropie with controllers: what does this error mean?

I am trying to pair my retropie with two 8BITDO SFC30 gamepads. To do so, I start them in the appropriate mode (pressing START+B on one and START+RIGHT+B on the other). I then connect them with this ...
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Setting up Dualshock 3 controller with retropie

I installed retropie on my Rpi b+. everything good. setup Dualshock 3 drivers and paired with sixaxis utility.. the controller gets detected but the problem is , every time i start my Rpi the ...
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How do I change the default permissions for device files (e.g. a gamepad)?

I have a gamepad that I am interested in using with the Pi. When I plug it into my development laptop running Lubuntu 13.04, I get the following: 418476 crw-rw-r--+ 1 root root 13, 0 Oct 12 22:55 ...
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SNES usb controller adapter - some input not recognized

I just received the Retro Link SNES Controller USB adapter I ordered to use with RetroPie, however upon launching EmulationStation, the "Up" button and the "left" button on my snes controller is not ...
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Performance problems with xboxdrv

I wanna use the RPi as an emulation machine, thanks to RetroPie this is not a big problem. To control everything I want to connect multiple Xbox 360 wireless gamepads. This is possible by using ...
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Is there any way to use a joystick as a mouse?

In order to cut down on connected devices, is there any way to use a connected USB gamepad as a mouse? Bonus points to anyone who can make it also act as the keyboard. As a clarification, the ...
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