Pcsx2 no left analog movement for p1 and p2

all troubleshooting described herein was done in win10 64-bit desktop and laptop with wired xbox 360 controllers

so a friend and i were tryin to run gauntlet: seven sorrows via direct connection over LAN and the game ran perfectly, up until we got in game and found out the left analog stick; required to move, was not working.

we’ve done a fresh dl/extract of retroarch.7zip and made no changes to anythng aside from the network stuff required to run smoothly after some trial and error. included in the screenshot r the BIOS files we have for the core. also, here’s the host settings that my friend went in with and i connected to him with those same settings.

here r the port 1 controls in the RA program along with the controls for port 1 in the RA game’s quick menu; which r all the same in both our settings.

starting netplay while in the game’s main menu will disable the left analog. we can atk and cast spells but no movement and left analog wrks when netplay is turned off

changing input device to 1 in both yields the same result. the ‘input_device_p1 = “0”’ seems to revert bak to 0 when changed tho. here’s the pastebin for ra.cfg and the ra.default for those who can spot any issues that i couldn’t spot. we both have the same configs.

ther r a couple more thngs to try but this has taken all my energy for today. thank you in advance for any hlp/solutions suggested. i’ll b back to tackle this again when i got time.