Gamepad on Raspberry Pi won't register A and B buttons.

[orbian]

I'm trying to get one of the generic USB gamepads (Buffalo, Kiwitata, etc) to work on the Raspberry Pi. The DPad works if you treat it as an analog stick and the X and Y buttons register along with the shoulder buttons.

The problem is the A and B buttons don't register at all. They work fine when using jstest-gtk and work fine in all my SDL programs.

This code will show which buttons register. On a Windows PC it registers all buttons. It's just on the Raspberry Pi that the A and B buttons don't work.

var gp_num = gamepad_get_device_count();
var b;
                
for (var i = 0; i < gp_num; i++;)
{
    if gamepad_is_connected(i)
    {
        var cnt;
        cnt = gamepad_button_count(i);

        for(var j=cnt; j>=0; j--;)
        {

            b = gamepad_button_check(i, j);
            if (b)
            {
                show_debug_message(string(cnt) + ":" + string(i) + ":" + string(j));
            }
        }
    }
}

 

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[Slow Fingers]

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To the OP:
Did you try Virtual Gamepad, with your Pi? It may fix it.
I don't think the code is the issue, here, otherwise your debug message would at least show up.

 

[orbian]

Geez, what is wrong with typing?!

To the OP:
Did you try Virtual Gamepad, with your Pi? It may fix it.
I don't think the code is the issue, here, otherwise your debug message would at least show up.

The gamepad works and I do get a debug message for buttons X and Y (and others). It's the A and B buttons that don't register. The gamepad works fine with all other programs on the Pi. It's just GameMaker that's not working as expected. An XBox controller will work correctly. I'm wondering it there is some way to get these missing buttons.

 

[Jordnb]

Did you find a solution? I am also having issues with some buttons not registering and haven't had any luck resolving it.