Two problems - lost scraped data and no joystick in PSP system

[Oracool]

Hi, all,

I built a bartop arcade with RPi 400 and 2x Dragonrise joysticks.

Problem 1 is after I scrape data with the built-in scraper all the data that is visible upon completion gets lost after I reboot the system. Any fix to that? I cant say if the scraped data is deleted or is still on the SD card but just not shows upon reboot.

Problem 2 - the joysticks (Dragonrise I think they are) are not working in PSP games, so I cant navigate the games. Joysticks work flawlessly everywhere else so far - in the Recalbox UI and in other systems, like ARCADE ot PORTS and so on... Just the joysticks refuse to work in the PSP System, the buttons work with no issues.

Any advice will be apreciated.

Thanks.

[Alexis Cortesn]

Hey! I had a similar issue with Dragonrise joysticks on Recalbox. They worked great in the menu and other emulators, but in PSP (via the PPSSPP emulator), the analog sticks didn’t work.
This happens because PPSSPP sometimes doesn’t recognize joystick axes by default, especially with certain generic controllers like Dragonrise. Try this - connected to Recalbox via SSH (or mounted the SD card on a PC).
I found the PPSSPP config file at:
/recalbox/share/system/.config/ppsspp/PSP/SYSTEM/controls.ini
(if it doesn’t exist, you can create it or look for a similar one.) Manually assigned the analog stick axes in that file. Recalbox doesn’t always pass the axis inputs correctly to PPSSPP, so you need to configure them manually. Alternatively, I launched a PSP game, pressed Select → Control Settings, and checked if the stick calibration worked there.
You can also try to remap controls through the PPSSPP GUI itself — launch any PSP game, enter the in-game PPSSPP menu, go to control settings, and rebind the analog directions manually.
Hope that helps — good luck

[Oracool]

@Alexis-Cortesn Thanks. I will look into your advice but it will take me some time as I am not that much into .ini files and modifying them on my own. For now it seems that some of the PSP roms can also be ran on the other emulator - Libretro PPSSPP and that one seems to work well with the joysticks.