Arcade Stick is recognised as Bluetooth Compliant XInput device (default mapping puts Start and Select on same button so I created a custom profile) DualSense is recognised as X360 for Windows and the input button layout has changed in the UI, anyways that’s ok. I don’t think it should be a complex setup, but now: Use the fact that I have now 2 controllers to play 2 Player games alternating between Player1 and Player2 randomly if one or the other wants to switch. Arcade Stick for many older games and for my MAME collection as an alternative to the DualSense (Single Player) DualSense for most games (Single Player) Here was my idea on how I would use both controllers.
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I just got myself an 8BitDo Arcade Stick and the problems have started. I am also having this issue, I have been using RA with a DualSense controller through DS4Windows for a year and it’s been working perfectly so far (as X360 Wired Controller). Hey guys, first message on the Forum here, so a big thanks to the LibRetro team for all the amazing work achieved for us RetroFreaks! The only issue is when I change the USB port for a joystick, it lost the order I wanted, but keeping them in a fixed USB port, all goes well. Even after reboots, the conf is still there and work perfectly. I just set the user 2 keys on RetroArch manually (which are not configured by default, just for user 1) and then with joytokey set up the 4 joysticks in 2 groups. I tried several ways and the one worked was thru joytokey. So what I wanted to do was to have 2 joysticks groups: For the rest (NES, Atari and other old consoles) I use the normal arcade controllers. I use the xbox joysticks to play games from new consoles that need several buttons (SNES and so).
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2 xbox-like USB joysticks (I will try the same with wifi controllers shortly but I assume that will work too).I have an multi-arcade machine with 4 joysticks:
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I am not sure if this is what you need to do, but here is what I did.