Meta-Issue: Cross-platform controller configuration and autoconfig file generation issues

[davidhedlund]

This meta-issue aims to consolidate and track various severe controller configuration issues across different platforms and distribution methods for RetroArch that makes it unstable. Addressing these issues will improve the process of configuring and uploading autoconfig files to the retroarch-joypad-autoconfig repository.

IMPORTANT

These issues are extremely important to fix, because they cause people to upload incorrect autoconfig files.

• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/15994
• https://github.com/hizzlekizzle/RetroArch-AppImage/issues/12

retroarch-joypad-autoconfig related

• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16997
• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16995
• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16905
• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16910

RetroArch for all platforms:

• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16898
• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16874
• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/13222
• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16780
• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16254

Remote RetroPad

• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16840
• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16793

Android

• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16791
• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16799
• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16217

Google TV

• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16853
• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16873

Desktop

• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16769
• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16222 -- Online Updater -> Update Controller Profiles does not indicate where the file is extracted, or if retroarch fails to extract the archive
• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/6920 -- "Settings -> Input -> RetroPad Binds -> Port 1 Controls -> Save Controller Profile" does not save "input_l2_axis" and "input_r2_axis" for L2/R2 analog triggers (pressure sensitive buttons). This affects PlayStation 2 controllers and later for example.

GNU/Linux

• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16828

Appimage

• https://github.com/hizzlekizzle/RetroArch-AppImage/issues/12

For more bugs see:

• https://github.com/hizzlekizzle/RetroArch-AppImage/issues/created_by/@me

Flatpak

• https://github.com/flathub/org.libretro.RetroArch/issues/297
• https://github.com/flathub/org.libretro.RetroArch/issues/295
• https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/16767

[davidhedlund]

@LibretroAdmin Can you please label all issues here "joypad autoconfig" in the RetroArch repository, so they will become visible at https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22joypad+autoconfig%22 ?

I would be grateful if you could grant me permission to add labels to help ease the workload for the developers. What do you think?