hanzo83 Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 Installed a pc with launchbox and bigbox on it. Put the wired up the 4 encoder boards and plug them in one at a time. First time running it and setting each system up. Worked perfect. But now everytime I restart the system. It changes the encoder to a different player. Everytime different. Like one time player 1 we be player 1. Next time maybe player 3 or 4 or 2. Supper frustrating but not sure what else to do. Tried to use x360e for controller setup. But dose t seem to help. Running windows 11 I can give more indepth details if anyone needs. Dose any one have any ideas?? EG Starts 4 Player Classic DIY Arcade Joystick Kit Parts USB Encoder To PC Controls Games + 4/8 Way Stick + 5V led Illuminated Push Buttons Compatible Video Game Consoles Mame Raspberry Pi & 4 Colors https://a.co/d/bb6IT8d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 43 minutes ago, hanzo83 said: But now everytime I restart the system. It changes the encoder to a different player. Everytime different. Like one time player 1 we be player 1. Next time maybe player 3 or 4 or 2. Supper frustrating but not sure what else to do. It boils down to, it's a Windows thing. If you're able to plug them in directly to the PC, that sometimes helps. Provided of course you have enough ports. Otherwise, you're stuck using a USB hub of sorts. The quick fix is to... when you turn the PC on, plug in the encoders, one-by-one, starting with player 1. Then 2. etc. Obviously, that's not reasonable. I've never used it myself, but have heard many have had great success using devreorder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanzo83 Posted September 1 Author Share Posted September 1 Weird question. I have 8 ports but not sure with what you mean on the amount of ports. They are all plugged into different ones. Going to give the usb hub a try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 9 minutes ago, hanzo83 said: Weird question. I have 8 ports but not sure with what you mean on the amount of ports. They are all plugged into different ones. Going to give the usb hub a try Sounds like you have enough [USB] ports (8) on your PC (didn't catch that in the original post). My o l d PC is not that fortunate. 😊 Probably not waste your time trying a hub because I hear that's worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanzo83 Posted September 1 Author Share Posted September 1 Dam was hopeing that might of been the fix Wondering if there is away in windows to lable each usb port as specific player control. Like ps2 or n64?? 🤔🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 31 minutes ago, hanzo83 said: Wondering if there is away in windows to lable each usb port as specific player control. You'd have better luck getting a USB hub to work than finding a way to get that to work like you're thinking. Windows is notorious for reading and putting the USB ports in any ol' order when starting up. Just recalled someone mentioning a hub in which you can turn each of its ports on/off individually. Giving you the ability to have all 4 off, then after booting up, turn on P1, then P2, then P3 and then P4. In that order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanzo83 Posted September 8 Author Share Posted September 8 (edited) Ended up finding the answer Friday. There is a program configuration file that's called devreoder and devlister program that gave me a guid for each controler. Then inserted into the devreoder config file. Placed in the same folder as retroarch.exe file Took me awhile to figure that all out. Appreciate the help Now I can unplug replug controllers back in without a issue. Edited September 8 by hanzo83 Wrong spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 16 minutes ago, hanzo83 said: Ended up finding the answer Friday. There is a program configuration file that's called devreoder Sounds similar to the one I mentioned in my 1st reply. Glad you found it and got it working! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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