Second controller working only in menu

Hi,

I have retrobat 6 running on my cabinet and it's been running great for a while, but for some reason now, my second controller is not working anymore in any game, but it it recognized and works great in retrobat menu.

Any idea? I tried rebooting, unplugging / replugging and remapping and it always works fine in the menu, but not in any game in any system, but the first one works fine.

This is driving me crazy!

Hello,

An example of an emulator or game system where you see this behavior ?

so far every gane I tried has this problem, my basic test being NES Contra" The game starts fine, I can select 2 player but the second player is not responding.

So if you push f1 (or hotkey + South) on your controller to open retroarch menu and navigate to the retroarch input settings, do you notice anything wrong ?

I tried that.. I don't see anything wrong, but maybe I'm overlooking something. I tried to reset the mapping or whatever the option is called, but it didnt chaneg anything,

What bugs me the most is it was working just fine before and I really dont know what changed

Maybe your controller is not configured anymore in es_input.cfg file...

ok, I checked es_input.cfg and there was only keyboard and one controller defined so I deleted the controller and restarted the config mapping for both and to my surprise, their was still only one in the file, but I found out that if both controller are the same hardware, it's normal apparently, just like if you connect two ps4 controller and map both of them, there will be only on in the es_inpuit.cfg.

So I moved to es_settings.cfg and saw that both INPUT P1UID and INPUT P2UID had the exact same value...

I then deleted the controller priority in the retrobat menu, there was something defined for controller 1 and 2 and I reverted it to default and TADA! it all works again.

So I'm not exactly sure what it was, but something was wrong with the emulationstation controller mapping and it was causing my problem,

Anyway thank for the help and I hope it can help someone else that could have this same weird problem in the future.