Recalbox 9.0 Pulsar Controller not working in games only

[Aaron Paluzzi]

System was working well at v8, but I allowed it to update. Now my controller works only in the menus but any game it will not work.

I have a Rpi4 in a commodore 64 (the board was dead and is sitting on a shelf for later repair) with a keyrah. I'm using a Sony Playstation 3 clone joystick (schwann).

I've checked the "Main Menu" "Controller Settings" and the input p1 is configured to "Sony Playstation(r)3 Controller". I've run through the configuration again setting the buttons. However the Keyrah and keyboard come out as the game controller which... well lets just say playing a Gameboy game with a c64 keyboard isn't ideal.

Any ideas here?

[Sweep14]

Hi Aaron. Did you found a solution for your problem? I just updated and I'm facing similar issues.

[Scavy]

@Sweep14 @Aaron-Paluzzi
I'm reporting your case to the team

[Keruwb]

@Aaron-Paluzzi similar issue here. I tought it was because of my 8bitdo pro 2 controller butbit seems it is the update to recalbox 9.0.

Something my controller will connect to the recalbox with x input, sometime not. When it does, i will play (rightnow megaman 3 on nes) and it will work vut enventually it stops working, then works again then stops etc. Wont reconnect if i turn off the controller and turn it on again. I cant play at all with it and it is the only purpose of that controller for me.

[Aaron Paluzzi]

@Sweep14 Nope. No progress yet.

[Aaron Paluzzi]

@Scavy Thank you!

[thewoodfanatic]

System: Rpi 3
Version: Recalbox 9

I am having an issue with my "twin usb gamepad" (one USB board with connections for two sets of buttons + joystick) where only the first controller works, but the 2nd does not.
I believe the problem started when I upgraded to Recalbox 9.

I tried the following, although the issue did not go away:

• Changed out to a completely different USB board (same model)
• Swapped the controller slots in the configuration menu (I think this caused my MAME games to crash before even loading)
• Performed a fresh install of Recalbox.
• Reconfigured the buttons
• Rewired (swapped) buttons between controller 1 and 2
• Plugged the USB board into other USB ports on the Rpi

None of these have fixed the issue. Anyone else having the same?

[ChrisK]

@thewoodfanatic I don't have a fix but I have EXACTLY the same setup and problem, my 2nd controller vanished when I upgraded to Recalbox 9.

I switched to an old backup SD card with Recalbox 8.2 and it all worked fine again, so it's definitely a Recalbox 9 issue.

[ChrisK]

I just updated my Recalbox to 9.1 in the hope it would fix my controller problem, but it made no difference. Has anyone got to the bottom of this issue?

[mmajzoobi]

@thewoodfanatic I am having the same issue on Pulsar 9.1. Twin controller but only one gets recognized...(shanwan). Same issue on 9.0. However on version 8.1.1 both gamepads get recognized and function well. I imagine some driver change broke things moving to version 9....

[ChrisK]

@mmajzoobi I solved my problem by adding a usbhid.quirks command to the end of my /boot/cmdline.txt file. The process is outlined in the 5th post down here.

You need to know the vendor ID and product ID of your USB controller (there are commands you can run to determine this).

In my case I have a "Twin USB Gamepad" with vendor/product IDs of 0x0810 and 0xe001 so added usbhid.quirks=0x0810:0xe001:0x040 to the cmdline.txt file.

When I rebooted my 2nd controller was detected and worked!

[adam0509]

Yes, Recalbox 9.1 and controllers are big problems, lots of people complaining

https://gitlab.com/recalbox/recalbox/-/issues/2275