Mi box and RetroArch, controllers...

by star_jump

Hey all. So I posted earlier this week about some controller woes, and I did some more testing but my results are pretty bad.

I have a handful of controllers and emulators, and so far I haven't found a great combination. For emulators, I've tried nes.emu and snes9x, and I tried to try RetroArch without success.

For controllers, I tried the Nyko Pad Pro, the 8-bitty, and a dualshock 4. The DS4 was a non-starter, it wouldn't pair and it doesn't recognize when connected by USB. The Nyko Pad works well in games (tried Pew Pew), but the lag in NES.emu and snes9x was terrible. The 8-bitty uses the iCade protocol and works better in those two emus, but didn't work with anything else.

As for RetroArch, it would not function correctly with the Nyko Pad, some shoulder buttons were the only things I could navigate with, the left stick and dpad didn't function at all, and I couldn't get to the settings. It also wouldn't respond to the Mi Box remote.

So... Does anyone have any suggestions here? Has anyone gotten RetroArch to function correctly? What controller did you use? Wired or wireless? Thanks very much for any help.

efuipa

Have you been able to configure Retroarch itself? It doesn't respond to any input, and tells me the Xiaomi Remote is not configured. I also have a Gamesir G4s and it tells me that is not configured also, so I can't even move the selection cursor to select any options.

I even plugged in a mouse and keyboard, and the keyboard was able to move the selector but pressing enter (or clicking with the mouse) did nothing. I gave up and downloaded individual emulators but I would like to give Retroarch a shot if anyone knows how to fix this problem.

betam4x

Retroarch is bugged to hell on the Mi Box. I've tried a bunch of controllers, wired and wireless, and can't get it to work. Other emulators work great. The NES30/SNES30 work wonderfully. It's not a controller or Mi Box issue, it's a Retroarch issue.

Akthunder88

The Steelseries Stratus XL is by far the best and I tried all of them but the one for the Mi Box 3 I have. It works very well for the android games aswell as the PSP games that I play on the PPSSPP emulator. I can't speak on the other emulator but I only play PSX and PSP games.

whythehellknot

Earlier people mentioned the nexus gamepad working well with it and the official. Xiaomi gamepad

themick

Classic Boy, it works great and maps well, can even custom map.

grodius

i do not have a mi box 2, but I have a ds4 controller that I've paired to my Firestick (also android)... so in theory this would work

  1. use adb to find bluetooth mac address of the android device:

adb shell settings get secure bluetooth_address

  1. use sixxaxispairtool on ur pc and "pre-pair" the controller with the bluetooth address

http://dancingpixelstudios.com/sixaxis-controller/sixaxispairtool/

  1. go to android bt pairing and get ready

  2. put controller in pairing mode

  3. it should instantly connect, or appear and then if you select it will instantly connect (as if it already knows this controller)

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plz anyone test this and let me know if it works i want to buy a mi box 2