Setting up two different controllers with different button maps on one game

[joelf]

This is something I have been wondering about for a while. I have two different types of controllers, is there a way to set them up differently, on one game?

JS0 and JS1 is a dragonsomething USB arcade style controller.

        L   L1    R1    R
(js)    A   B     X     Y 

their id's are

         4   5   6   7
(js)     0   1   2   3 

I also have two logitech f310s

 L1                  L2           <-- trigger
 L                   R           <-- shoulder

                  Y 
(js)          X       B
                  A

ids:

5                   6           <-- trigger
4                   7           <-- shoulder

                   3 
 (js)          2       1
                   0

note: When I plug in the controller it becomes JS0 and the two arcade controllers become js1 and js2. If I plug in 2 controllers they become js0 and js1, etc.

MY QUESTION

In a game like street fighter 2 for example, is there a way to set it up, so the dragonsomething arcade style controllers are using the arcade style streetfighter layout...

Punch:  L  M  S
Kick:   L  M  S

...while any controllers plugged in will still keep the default key maps of

  strong kick                       strong punch

                                        m punch
                              m kick                l punch
                                        l kick

?

So far, I have to settle with having a game work on one controller intuitively, but not the other. Is there a way to define both?

I am comfortable deleting and editing rmp files or cfgs.

[meleu]

@joelf It's a good question, but I'm afraid there's no way to do that with pure RetroArch configs.

The core input remapping takes into consideration the RetroPad buttons only...

If it's really really really important to you, maybe you can do tricks using runcommand-onstart.sh, but I think that configuring using core input remapping method on demand is much simpler.

[joelf]

@meleu said in Setting up two different controllers with different button maps on one game:

@joelf It's a good question, but I'm afraid there's no way to do that with pure RetroArch configs.

This is what I thought. I was hoping that retroarch has some way of telling what controller is what, but I wasn't expecting much. I could use the core remap to make player 1 & 2 always arcade layout, and player 3 & 4 always pad style, then hope that the individual roms don't care what position the actual player is in to start a 2 player game, but I think i'd run into issues a lot more than what I am already doing.