If you upgrade your system as new revisions come out, it’s important to back up all your games. You will need a tiny Bluetooth USB adaptor, too. Use either a small USB keyboard or a tiny bluetooth one if space is an issue. The best and easiest way to do this is to have a small keyboard fitted to the Retropie system and use the 5 key to put in a coin and the 1 key to Start for player 1.

Incidentally, some games, like those on MAME and NeoGeo which were intended for arcade machines, may need an emulation of the coin slot actuator. The very best joystick for Retropie? An arcade stick. The best idea is to buy an inexpensive controller which is shaped and structured on the original game system but fitted with USB. Obviously, if the default joystick configurations annoy you because you know what they should be in the original game system, you can reconfigure them, but this is a very laborious process which we may go into in a future article.

Of course, the MegaDrive and NeoGeo use all four buttons as there were four on the original joypad.Sega Master System only uses the “A” and “B” button for fire and jump and the “Select” and “Start” buttons as per the original console.This is a special case because although the joystick is set up for the emulator, you have to explicitly set the joystick in “VICE -> Machine Settings -> Joystick Settings.” Be aware: there was a convention in the C64 world where the default joystick was Joystick 2. Once in the menu system, use the “X” button to select and the “A” button to exit. Commodore 64 uses the “A” button (or the Start button) to access the settings for VICE.Super Nintendo uses all the buttons on the gamepad plus “Start” and “Select.” Some games mostly seem to use the “Y” and “B” buttons, with Y tending to be the fire button and B the jump.The File Manager uses the “X” button to select.Enter the menu system within games by holding “Select” and pressing the “X” button. Retroarch is the underlying system for most of the emulators.The Retropie interface defaults to using the “A” button to select and the “B” button to exit.Here’s a selection of different configurations we’ve noticed. On all modes, the D-pad controls up and down and left and right, but the buttons work differently on each mode.

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