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.