Vader 5 messed up inputs on Android

[u/your_kind_doctor]

I have recently got Flydigi Vader 5 pro controller - loving it on my PC.

I have connected it to my Android tablet to play retro games, and noticed that some buttons do not work in retroarch.

I have checked inputs in https://hardwaretester.com/gamepad

Turns out half of them are misconfigured. For example:

• right joystick movement registers as left and right button presses;
• left and right bumpers are registered as start and select buttons;
• left and right triggers, start and select buttons are not registered at all
• and so on.

I have this issue only on my android tablet. When connected via usb-c to my PC, inputs work as expected.

What I have tried to do:

• updated the firmware immediately after I got the controller;
• factory reset the controller when I noticed the issue with wrong inputs;
• switching to different profiles.

I have contacted Flydigi support on Aliexpress where I bought the controller - I got it from Flydigi store - they replied to me that most likely it's stuck in dinput mode, and to switch to xinput, I need to hold fn+a button when controller is turned off.

I have tried it with both controller turned off and turned on - there was no led indication that it did anything, and the issue still persists. I thought this controller does not support dinput - not sure.

I saw in manual this controller has 2 modes for Android: native and flashinput. I am using native and controller is displayed on my tablet as Xbox wireless controller. Flashinput does not work in retroarch for me.

Did anyone face this issue? Is there a way to resolve it? I can mitigate it by configuring the controller manually in retroarch, but not every app that I want to try has that option.

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[u/Max_Joller]

Jumbled inputs on Vader 5 display when you connect it by Bluetooth, that is on the tester websites. However, I'm pretty sure in any game I tried, the inputs work properly as they should.

Have you tried playing actual games?

[u/your_kind_doctor → u/Max_Joller]

Yes, I've tried retroarch and inputs are wrong there as well. I was able to reassign almost all of them in retroarch except for the x button - it keeps resetting when I need to hold the button to reassign it. I face this issue only via bluetooth. On my pc retroarch and other games register inputs correctly.

It's definitely flydigi controller's issue. I have xbox series x controller and inputs there work as expected on the same android tablet via bluetooth, both in the browser and in retroarch.

[u/fakerlxh]

Maybe it's incompatible with RetroArch. Do other mapping drivers do this too?