@alvin
I believe that some controllers work and others don't, even if they are of the same brand (Sefitopher or other chinese controllers). Or at least that's what I suspect after reading the reviews from Amazon of various PS3 controllers.

Thank you for your help Alvin,
I'll buy the Logitech F310 Pad and will return this one!

@alvin
I tried with gasia but sadly it didn't work.

When I execute the command sdl2-jstest --list y get the following message:

Unable to init SDL: No available video device

I can't see the list of my controllers with this command, not even the SNES ones.

This is the link to Amazon, and the reviews say (sorry but they are only in Spanish) that they can use it in Recalbox/Retropie without any problems.

I also read in another link in this forum that the PS3 Shanwan controllers don't work with USB, only with Bluetooth. I tried to pair ir via Bluetooth but even if Recalbox says that is paired, the controller doesn't have a fix light nor it appears on the controllers menu.

@alvin
I checked and it's controllers.ps3.enabled=1 right now, also controllers.ps3.driver=shanwan.

I tested in other Raspberry retro/emulator systems like RetroPie and Batocera but I get the same error.

In the Amazon reviews, other people get the controller to work instantly by USB in these systems (including Recalbox), maybe it's something with the RetroArch version? I don't know, I'm running out of ideas.

I attach a photo of the .

I installed a brand new Recalbox to my Raspberry Pi 4 4Gb. I bought two SNES controllers and one PS3 controller (not original). The two SNES controllers work perfectly fine but I can't get the PS3 controller to work. When I connect the USB, it says "Xbox 360 Controller connected", not PS3.

I executed dmesg and this what I get:

[  709.494686] usb 1-1.3: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
[  709.498436] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=054c, idProduct=0268, bcdDevice= 1.00
[  709.498444] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[  709.498451] usb 1-1.3: Product: PS3 Controller
[  709.498458] usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: Sony
[  709.525978] input: Sony PS3 Controller Motion Sensors as /devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0/0003:054C:0268.0006/input/input11
[  709.593452] input: Sony PS3 Controller as /devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0/0003:054C:0268.0006/input/input10
[  709.594322] sony 0003:054C:0268.0006: input,hiddev96,hidraw0: USB HID v81.11 Joystick [Sony PS3 Controller] on usb-0000:01:00.0-1.3/input0
[  712.433234] usb 1-1.3: new full-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[  712.571756] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=028e, bcdDevice= 1.10
[  712.571767] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[  712.571774] usb 1-1.3: Product: Controller
[  712.571781] usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: Sony
[  712.583143] input: Microsoft X-Box 360 pad as /devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0/input/input15
[  712.583850] usbcore: registered new interface driver xpad

This always by USB, not even wireless (which also doesn't work). When I try to bind/configure the controls, it detects that three controllers are connected but it doesn't detect any key to start the binding of the buttons (only on the PS3 controller).

I tested the controller on PC and It works good but is also detected as a Xbox 360 controller. But maybe is a Steam thing? I don't know.

I also changed the line controllers.ps3.driver= between bluez, official and shanwan but it did the same thing.

Do you guys have any tips on how to fix this? Maybe other changes that I could try?

Thank you.