Play and charging cables will not work. To pair your controller(s) with the wireless receiver: Starting with the RetroPie 4.1 SD image, the xpad driver is already installed by default, manual ...

According to ConsciousFish6170, the controller was big enough to house a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W ... ConciousFish6170 opted to use RetroPie as the main emulation platform for this project ...