# Picade X-Hat - joystick not detected although buttons do

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**Created:** [May 5, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/picade-x-hat-joystick-not-detected-although-buttons-do/19438 "2022-05-05T16:23:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![yonatan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/eb9ed0/32.png) [@yonatan](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/yonatan)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/picade-x-hat-joystick-not-detected-although-buttons-do/19438/1 "2022-05-05T16:23:20Z")

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Hi,  
I have a Picade X-Hat connected to Raspberry Pi 4B, in a self built arcade machine.  
I followed the instructions in [Assembling your 8" or 10" Picade with PICO-8](https://learn.pimoroni.com/article/assembling-your-picade) and and ran the Picade Hat installer.In the Retropie welcome screen, all the connected buttons are detected when pressed and I can map them. However, none of joystick movements are detected. My joystick is connected to the five joystick pins of course. Tough I’m quite sure I can tell where the joystick ground is, I also tried the opposite end wire as ground. Furthermore, I tried to connect the joystick (one directional wire and the ground wire) as a button, but it was also not detected (was it supposed to be detected while connected as a button??).  
I would highly appreciate any help.  
Yonatan