How do I make it so PSX only uses my Playstation controller and Genesis only uses my Genesis contoroller...

[efernandezjr]

Hi everyone. Long story short, I’m trying to setup my Retropie so that the PSX emulator only uses the PSX controller and the Genesis emulator only uses the Genesis controller. I did it once before but I lost my SD to corruption and am trying to redo. My Genesis controller is in USB port 1 and my PSX controller is on USB port 2.

I tried out the method mentioned in this link except I substituted the “1” at then end with a “2” since my PSX controller is in USB 2.

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Lets say you have two controllers, one in port 0, one in port 1

/opt/retropie/configs/psx/retroarch.cfg you'd add

input_player1_joypad_index = "1"

above the #include line of course as mentioned here: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration

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So doing this works for me in that the PSX emulator does choose the PSX controller and ignores my other controller but for some reason, it shows up as Player 2 when I open a PlayStation game. Anyone have an idea of what I’ve done wrong?

Original Link to referenced advice:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6/different-controller-for-specific-emulator/2

If any of you can point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it!

[mitu]

If the PSX controller is P2, without any configuration, in order to switch controllers you should have:

input_player1_joypad_index = "1"
input_player2_joypad_index = "0"

You can re-order the controllers also from the configuration editor configuration - it's one of the advanced options you can set.