Second player stick not working

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#1

this one has given me a tremendous headache.

i have three ultimarc u360 sticks, they are set up as sticks 1-3 and they are working in all other emus.

in retro, i can assign stick one to directions, no problem.

but stick two just won’t register when i push a direction to assign it. i KNOW the stick is working. if i have joy2key running, in retroarch, the second stick directions register as the keys that are assigned in j2k. but if i kill j2k, the stick is no longer seen by RA (stick one is still seen)

i’m going nuts on this one, please help!

#2

I don’t think you can assign buttons from a single retropad to >1 devices without using something like joy2key to move them to the keyboard

#3

but these are separate joysticks (not two sticks on one controller).

#4

right. Your exact setup isn’t clear from your post. Are the 2 sticks going into a single encoder? what’s going on behind the scenes?

#5

oh sorry. the u360 sticks are each stand alone arcade sticks, usb. each stick has 8 buttons which i do not use. i use an encoder for the button presses (mapped to key presses).

so, the stick all i care about are direction.

stick one, no issues!

stick two, not registering in retroarch (as noted above, it works in other emus and retroarch can see the key presses if i use joy2key on that stick).

but kill j2k, it’s not seen in retro. i have two players set in RA, i hav the correct stick selected for player two… directions not registering.

#6

ok, so it’s a separate USB device, and you’re not trying to map it as a second stick or whatever, just as player 2.

If you’re not going to be swapping other controllers in/out, you might be best off just disabling autoconfiguration and doing a manual map. Aside from that, you need to select the stick you’re mapping in the device index for port 2, which can get a bit hairy if you have >1 device with the exact same name.

#7

that’s what i’m trying, a manual map. the controllers are seen in windows (and in RA) as:

ultra stick # 1 ultra stick # 2

the sticky part is that it WAS working. i could play two player games and set up both sticks. but not anymore.

i may just try a clean install of windows at this point. i have tried a fresh i stal of RA but same behavior…

#8

just got home, thought i’d give it a try again. now RA doesn’t even see the two sticks. yet they are working in every other app.

#9

found the issue, seems my retroarch.cfg file got corrupted. deleting that and starting over worked.

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