Frode Solheim

Install `autoconf` first: sudo apt install autoconf

Just came over this issue kind of by accident, but I can at least chip in with some knowledge. I observed similar issues with FS-UAE, and at least one reason...

It should be fairly easy to created a patched version of SDL without this name "correction" btw.

It's not certain of course, but it sounds likely that RetroArch uses udev / linux native joystick support and gets "Xbox Wireless Controller" (the Xbox devices are usually called something...

Or provide a patched SDL with RetroPie with the following lines removed: custom_name = GuessControllerName(vendor, product); if (custom_name) { return SDL_strdup(custom_name); } and /* Trim trailing whitespace */ for (len...

Confirmed, at least with some non-ASCII characters such as ü.