hi. have amibian up and running on my pi 3B+.
my ps3 controller via usb works just fine but I cannot get the dpad to work despite trying to remap the controls. at the moment i am forced to use the left analogue stick. i tried amiberry and dpad works fine on that but i much prefer amibian overall!
thanks
Gunnar's point is (I believe) that Amibian is not itself an emulator - it is basically a launcher for Amiberry. If your joypad works in Amiberry then it should work in Amibian.
To update Amiberry - in Amibian, quit emulation to go back to the linux prompt, go to option 7, then emulatorsupdate, then amiberryupdatepi3.
Takes ages and you need to be connected to the internet.
I have the exact same problem. Your answer to this does not help much! The latest version of Amibian does not work with usb gamepad but Amiberry does. So, what is Amibian if not an emulator???
Well.. Amiberry is an emulator, infact it's the default emulator on amibian. Try updating the emulator and see if that helps.