@vt_fbcoach said in Most recently connected Bluetooth controller becomes player 1?:

@mitu Sorry, it looks like your message may have been prematurely cut off?

Yes, somehow I pressed enter before actually giving an answer, sorry.
You could leverage the onstart/onend scripts for runcommand to switch dynamically the joypad indexes when 2 gamepads are detected. Something similar to https://github.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection.