Xbox 360 Controller

RetroArch General
#1

Hi there! This is my first post and I would like to thank you guys for all your hard work.

That said, I’m having an issue with controllers on RetroArch. I have 4 controllers that are hooked up via USB at all times. I use my XB360 controller with my PC periodically and whenever I do this I run into trouble. When I boot up RetroArch I have to reconfigure my controllers and sometimes certain cores will crash when I try to start them up. Is there something that I’m missing that could alleviate this problem?

#2

For crashing, we’ll need a log to know what’s going wrong. It shouldn’t be an issue with the controllers.

#3

OK. I ended up just doing a fresh install and configured all of the controllers while the XB360 controller was plugged in. That fixed whatever issue I was having with that. For future reference, where would I find this log you speak of?

#4

If you launch from a command line with --verbose, it will print the log to the console. You can also add --log-file=filename.txt and it will print that to a file instead.

#5

You don’t really need to configure Xbox360 controllers, the configurations are baked in.

#6

Yeah maybe I was unclear. It’s a little confusing. I use my XB360 controller for other PC games, I never use it for RA. I have SNES, NES, Genesis, and PS2 controllers hooked up via USB that I use in RA. I think the problem I ran into was that I configured the controllers in RA while my XB360 controller was unplugged. Later when I started up RA with the XB360 controller plugged in RA seemed to make it the priority device. I reinstalled RA again, this time while the XB360 controller was plugged in and this seemed to fix the issue. Overall, I feel like I made this more complicated than it needed to be lol

#7

What he means is that some joypads already have default configuration in retroarch, you don’t need to configure. Have you downloaded the joypad configs in Online Updater --> Update Autoconfig Profiles ?