[Different Default Controllers for MAME & RA]

I could use help with setting up confine manually. Sorry, but I’m a noob but dedicated to getting this done! Any video to help with this? Do you want to help me 1:1 via phone or something—I’d pay you for your time.

[Different Default Controllers for MAME & RA]

Headrush69, thank you. Unfortunately it appears that I could literally map the control board in any way but the controls in the game remain the same. I save before exiting retroarch, but get an error message saying ‘no core’ when attempting to ‘user 1 save autoconfig’.

[Different Default Controllers for MAME & RA]

Thank you for your input, Headrush69. That mapping sequence is reasonable. However the issue I ran into is that even with 1st and 2nd player mapping, I seem to have to use both player buttons just to move one character. For example, SNES Castlevania IV, the a button makes the character jump, and the joystick works fine. However I have to press a button in the second player area to make him whip. Even when I isolated the input needed to whip, and place it within the player 1 control, it still defaults to the second player position.

[Different Default Controllers for MAME & RA]

4 hours ago, Headrush69 said:

If you set the miniPac to keyboard mode, you can use keystrokes in MAME and than set no keys in your Retroarch default.cfg and it will use the usb gamepads only in Retroarch. No need to worry about joystick indexes than,

I have mine set up like that, except I have my default.cfg in Retroarch mapped to the Arcade controls so I can use them or my XBox controllers.  

 

How do you successfully map the arcade controls in retroarch? I have an xtension control board and want to use it for all ROMs under retroarch. Even the player 1 will bind, but not save under autocofig. Says no core, 1.7.7. Any help would be appreciated!

[4 Controller Setup]

I received a 4-player xtension control board from rec room masters. Running Launchbox. Games run fine. MAME seems to work with re-config mapping, however I cannot get retroarch to register the changes made to the arcade controllers 1-4. For example: Super castlevania IV: of the 6 buttons of player one, only the jump button works. Another of the 6 buttons seems to greatly speed up gameplay (character moves faster and timer moves faster/faster music). Any provions/videos/advice on the 4-player xtension. I see plenty of videos for the 2-player control board, but not the 4-player control board.