I am having the same issues with the SANWA controllers inside Launchbox. My mapping of buttons and joystick have all been setup and upon entering any game, the buttons work but not the joystick itself. I checked the wiring and settings. All seem fine. I even used a different front end with same setup and works fine. Not sure what else the problem could be. I'm using latest 12.9 version of Launchbox with RetroArch.