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Graphical front-end for generating game controller configuration files.

inputstation's Issues

Special Characters in Controller Name

Recently purchased a Logitech Cordless Precision (a controller they never should have stopped making) for my Retropie. After a bit of fumbling around, I realized why my controller wasn't being picked up by Retroarch: Logitech put a "/" into the controller name.

The controller labels itself as "PS3/USBCordlessGamepad". When InputStation tries to move and rename the config file to "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/", it interprets that "/" as another directory and fails to move to the non-existent folder "PS3".

Although rare, I'm sure there could be other cases out there of controllers with special characters which would mess with this naming method. My suggestion would be to search the name string for special characters first and replace them with another character like "_" before the actual move.

(Also submitted this as a bug to RetroArch, since their "Save Input AutoConfig" option also failed with this controller.)

Not Starting From Emulationstation RetroPie Menu

I installed a fresh 3.0 BETA 2 image, updated the setup script, did a full binary install and selected the CONTROLLER CONFIGURATION option from the RetroPie menu and the screen went black for a moment and then returned to Emulationstation. Is it supposed to open up into an emulationstation-like config menu like it did when I compiled it and ran it from the command line or for future releases is it meant to replace the default emulationstation autoconfig that starts on boot?

This was the log file

lvl2:    req sound [basic.back]
lvl2:      (missing)
lvl2:    req sound [basic.launch]
lvl2:      (missing)
lvl2:   Attempting to launch game...
lvl2:       sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh retropiemenu launch /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/inputstation.rp
lvl2:   Creating surface...
lvl2:   Created window successfully.
lvl2:   Added known joystick USB gamepad            (instance ID: 0, device index: 0)
lvl2:   Added known joystick USB gamepad            (instance ID: 1, device index: 1)
lvl2:   Added known joystick USB gamepad            (instance ID: 0, device index: 0)
lvl2:   Added known joystick USB gamepad            (instance ID: 1, device index: 1)
lvl2:   EmulationStation cleanly shutting down.