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    4 way and 8 way stick at same time

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      Damoos
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      I have controls for two players. Each set of controls has 2 sticks, one set for 4 way and one set for 8 way.

      When I launch, say, pac man, My 8 way is the controller that is active. I can't figure out how to cause a game to use a different controller. When I open retroarch inside the game, all the assignments look right, but the 4 way does nothing.

      In the emulation station UI, all 4 sticks work fine.

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        lostless @Damoos
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        @damoos in general, since I don’t know what your controllers are, In retro arch you need to find out what buttons/axis is the 4 Way and add the proper directions to that.

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          Damoos @lostless
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          @lostless that is done. All directions assigned in the "in game" control menu.

          The 4 way works in the emulation station UI, but is not active in games.

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            Damoos @lostless
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            @lostless Both sticks are Happ style plugged into separate zero delay encoders.

            My likely solution will be to put the 4 way on the same encoder as the 8 way, but I'm still curious how to have both active simultaneously.

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              mitu Global Moderator @Damoos
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              @damoos You can override the controller order on a per-game basis, you'll need a separate .cfg file for the game where you can change the order of the controllers:

              input_player1_joypad_index=1
              input_player2_joypad_index=0
              

              The above will switch the controller order, so 2nd controller gets to be Player1 and vice-versa. See here how that works.

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