Retroarch with multiple controller types

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#1

Hey!

I am considering getting controllers for consoles that had controllers that are not easy to play with an Xbox type controller (I use a dualsense with ds4windows)

For example: -N64 -Gamecube -Saturn/Megadrive -maybe others

A few questions:

  • Do I understand correctly that I just need to configure the button mapping for each controller manually once in the main retroarch menu and then the buttons will be assigned automatically plug and play style according to the core’s default mapping?

  • Can 8bitdo extra buttons be mapped on retroarch also? I.e. I currently have the hotkey toggle button mapped to “select” and for example the M30 Saturn controller doesn’t have a select button but as all 8bitdo controllers has those 3 extra buttons.

  • any buying recommendations? Looking for Bluetooth controllers.

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#2

Hello, maybe a “little” late but i try to answer your questions.

  1. yes, that is how the retropad stuff works.

  2. on my m30 2.4G i can use only one of the extra Buttons but with my fc30 pro Bluetooth i can use at least 2 of the extra Buttons.

  3. everything from 8bitdo should Work. In case of issues they often offer different modes for (Switch, Android, PC…).

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#3

Thanks for replying, in the end I went for an 8bitdo arcade stick, a BT M30, an Exlene BT GameCube controller, a Brawler 64 BT controller (and 2 wiimotes however this is in dolphin standalone).

I moved to rewasd and emulated everything as Xbox360 controller with all buttons correctly remapped in rewasd directly so that I didn’t need to do any sort of remapping in Retroarch directly allowing to still use my DualSense when I want to without any issues, and keeping hotkeys consistent across all controllers.

Some controllers were just not detected by Ds4windows so I couldn’t map their buttons properly.

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#4

Sorry for hijacking this thread, but new users are not allowed to post new threads on their own…

I bought an retro-bit Genesis Controller and i also have big trouble using it in RetroArch.

First of all, RetroArch only seems to work with SNES/Switch Controller (It wants me to map ABXY, Genesis Controllers do have ABCXYZ, so two buttons are missing), but that is not the issue as i can remap in the core. The issue is, as soon as i remap any key (No matter which controller i use, this happens with an Switch Pro Controller too), no key does anything anymore.

Tested with Geneses Plus GX so far (As this is the only core that supports folders with japanese names)

Example before (Works, but the buttons are mapped wrong) (Sorry i had to remove this, new users are only allowed to post one single image)

After my remap (not a big change though)

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No Button does anything anymore. No matter which button i press, there is zero response from the game