I was having pairing and configuration issues in emulation station for a few days and finally got it to pair and configure by adding a udev rule. It works smoothly in emulation station.

Now it appears to causing issues handing off to configgen or retroarch. When i choose a genesis game (SF2) from emulation station, the screen goes black and stays black until i turn off my retrobit controller. The game will load. I then turn on the retrobit controller and it pairs but the button config is wrong and most of the buttons dont work. The home/hotkey+A also doesnt do anything. If i plug in a 2nd wired controller, i can enter the retroarch menu (hotkey+A) and correct the button mapping for the retrobit controller but it seems to have no effect and half the buttons dont work at all.

Any hints on how to fix the blackscreen/retroarch not starting issue (w/o turning the controller on and off) and how to correct the button mapping? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks