Thanks for your help and quick response, what mintypi software should i use for the mintypi V2 on rasberry pi 0w? I flashed retropie to my sd card and it booted up and the result was the no controller connection thing. Thanks again

im in the same situation, i tested the pi to the pcb's front and back. Continuity was good, but the screen says theres no gamepad connected. Im holding A but nothing's working. Thanks