If your problem is that you can get the controller to pair but Emulationstation swears blind that it can’t see any controllers, and when you press F4 you get a whole lot of SDL errors about key 314 not being recognised, hopefully this is your answer.īasically the problem is this: for some reason the system sees the NES30 Pro as a keyboard and mouse, but not as a joystick. If you are reading this and you are in a similar situation, hopefully this will also work for you. Even when it - occasionally - paired via Bluetooth.Īfter hours poring through endless forum posts mainly involving instructions to use bluez-* scripts that no longer exist on Raspbian Jessie, I had run out of hair to tear out and was ready to start tearing out other people’s.įinally, at about 4am, I found The Magic Forum Post containing the actual solution that worked for me. I’ve installed RetroPie on the thing using the RetroPie-Setup script.Īll I wanted to do was to get the controller to work.Īnd no matter what I did, Emulationstation refused to recognise it. I’ve got an 8Bitdo NES30 Pro bluetooth joypad. I’ve got a shiny new Raspberry Pi model B running NOOBS.

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