Messed up controls

[Vlak6]

Dear Folks, I have a question about how to operate retropie with a zero delay encoder for the controls.
I have built multiple Arcdae cabinets and I am now running into a problem that I have not encountered before.

The moment I run retropie for the first time I can configure the controls. This is all going well. Then I choose "configure input" in the menu to configure the 2nd controller. So far everything is going well. Now comes the problem. The moment I restart retropie the controls of 1 of the 2 players are completely mixed up.

How is this possible. I've built systems before and haven't experienced this problem before. Does anyone have experience with this ??

Vlak6

[maschine]

@vlak6 Got no solution for you - but I did sporadically encounter the same issue. I configured a 6-button panel like

Y, X, L
B, A, R

And after reboot X and A were changed.

[busywait]

@maschine If you run with verbose logging enabled (using the runcommand menu at launch) you can review all of the different configuration files that are loaded at startup. Is there a configuration being loaded that you didn't expect?

[mahoneyt944]

Do you have player 1 going to usb port 0 and player 2 going to usb port 1?

[Tim's up]

Hey,
I have similar issue for months now, although my setup is 4 Player and some controls stop working at all as soon as I reboot or launch a game.

Created a new post this morning :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29697/controls-mixed-up-again-and-again

I will keep looking into your thread as I'm in dire need for a solution as well

[maschine]

@busywait

@busywait said in Messed up controls:

@maschine If you run with verbose logging enabled (using the runcommand menu at launch) you can review all of the different configuration files that are loaded at startup. Is there a configuration being loaded that you didn't expect?

Great help indeed. I found some game-specific overrides in the logs and will take care of it.

Thank you!

[lostless]

@maschine sounds like you didn’t wire up both encoders the same. Both must be wired identical. Retro pie configures controllers via vendor/model. So if both controllers are using the same encoder, if you change one, you change the other. If you mixed up 2 buttons, those 2 will constantly switch.

[maschine]

@lostless That finally did the job! Thank you so much!