Thanks so much for this. I have spent all day trying to figure this out when the instructions mention the inputs are not specific. Works for 2 player EG starts in a cabinet.

Thanks for this. I threw together a cabinet out of scrap wood with just 1 player and it worked fine. Then I built an actual cabinet with 2 players and it went wonky. I just assumed it didn't matter what slot they go into.

It worked! Thanks! I was searching all over for a fix.

Excellent! Been looking everywhere for the answer, and you've nailed it! You've just got yourself a new subscriber :D

Your videos are great! Very informative. This is straight up "Havard" proffessor niveau in retropie :)

I’m having an unusual problem, I have a virtual pinball table that I built for my dad, hooked the buttons up to a USB encoder. All the connections are tight and hooked up to the appropriate ports, although whenever I turn on the computer and press any of the buttons it disconnects the encoder from the PC and after hitting the buttons a second time it reconnects the encoder to the PC. Every one of the buttons does this I’m super confused why it’s doing this and can’t find anybody online that mentions having this problem.

I am having an issue similar but not exactly. When using the same exact USB encoders you're using is the only time this happens. I will map the buttons, everything works fine, ill load into any game and immediately I lose mapping on one of the sets of buttons. When I go to remap it again it has created a new input save. I found this out after being on gamepad 13. I have checked my wiring but it is exactly as you say.

I am not mechanically inclined. Would love for you to breakdown how to install raspberry bie on a legends ultimate game system

Thanks for this video it was a massive help, as I had the system crashing on me on my arcade cabinet build.

So I have a 4 gamepad setup with 4 usb encoders. All same model, all plugged in the same. However 2 of the player gamepads are bugged. The joysticks work on all 4, the led lights work on all buttons but the actually buttons don't respond on 2 of the gamepads. It's weird because the joysticks and lights work, so they clearly have power and are recognized by retropie as it says "4 gamepads detected" but the buttons are unresponsive on 2 of the 4

informative video thank you! but you are too over exposed, turn the light down a bit...

I have a 4 player setup using raspberry 4 and when I use more than one player the hdmi stops working. I honestly need help.

Just installed my new arcade usb controller. Any idea why my joystick is only recognizing up. When trying to do button mapping in batocera l cannot map left, right or down. Nothing happens. All the other buttons work well. It is connected with 5pin connector.

Hey Guy, great vid as usual. I modified my Arcade1Up X-Men 4 player cab and installed Batocera PC. I mapped my controls in Batocera's menu for player 1, by the time I get to player 4 my player 1 controls are jacked up. Player 1 and 2 are 8 buttons and 3 and 4 are 4 buttons. What can I do to fix this? I have looked at the wiring and rewired. Any other solutions?

Hey just got the zero delay 3ncodernyou show here ....where the hell do you plug in the "coin" button ??? Struggling for days on this . Any help would be appreciated!

Hey buddy, in which slot do you connect the wire into if you have only one coin button on a 4 player cab?

Do you have your default as mame and snes wired to encoder? I have my encoders set up as 123 436 button 1 to port 1 and so on is that right?

what i cant seem to find out is how to wire the admin buttons (go back, pause, exit game, menu, shutdown etc) if all players should have identical wiring. anyone know?

Hey, retro game guy, so I just got this arcade guys cabinet from someone. I brought it home. I was configuring the joy cons then all of us sudden I guess the “A” button during configuring wasn’t selected… after that I’m not able to try resetting it or trying to configure it back because I’m not able go into the next page without the A button not being able to be pressed from the joy cons. So if you can I emailed you already and contact. I really need help it will relive the stress from trying and trying to find ways to get it to work

So, in the case where 2 buttons have to be pressed at the same time for super power movesm would the problem be the encoder or the buttons themselves? Every button works and regular moves work... only when 2 have to be pressed at the same time. TIA.

Why would when holding foward or back in say street fighter...i cannot roll the stick to down foward or down back? I cant duck while holding foward, i have to return to neutral to get a different direction to input? Any idea whats causing this?

Hey retro i modded my arcade1 up pinball. and while I’m waiting for the day I can an encoder with analog plunger support I’m using an inexpensive joystick one that works well accept for my ball launch button. On the keyboard enter is the launch so I program that button to the enter key but when I get to playing a game either doesn’t work or is a back button or something a d I end up using the keyboard enter button to play. Any ideas? Thanks a lot.

Hi mate.i have a usb encoder with haap buttons and zippy microswitches, super console detects but can't map buttons.buttons don't work.do I have to get usb microswitches(if there are any) the ones that are small and in the button? Or is there some other way, like getting small microswitches and putting them in existing buttons.please help.thanks.

Got a question? Can I set my controller mapping for each individual game on MAME. Like fighting games are punching is the top button and kicking is the bottom buttons but there out of order. Thanks for your help.

Do you know how we could get all four control sticks working on The Simpsons cab in retroarch so we can play 4 player in other arcade games

I have a Pc I was using a Xbox remote wired to fix setting and stuff. Now I connected 2 joysticks they function great . I can no longer start any games. They just won’t play anymore. What happened??

I have one small issue regarding encoders. Never had this on other mods. Can you please tell me why my encoder board light is switching from red to blue after starting up pc? When light is blue , none of the buttons work. In order for light to go back to red, I either have to unplug power going to encoder or have a button going to the RES slot to switch it back. Thanks

Wow, that was a massive help. Thanks. Do you know how to map an i-pac-4 to a retropie?

Great video, very informative

Hi, I’m having an issue with player 1. It reading the joystick input for Down. This started happening a week ago , the system has been running great for 2 years with no issues. At first I thought it was the micro switches so I ordered new ones and same problem. Could it be my USB encoders?

Do you have select and start in separate emulators across input 1 and 2? I'm having an issue where Lakka doesn't register the mapping. I'm also curious to which slots you assign the insert coins buttons on the front of your arcade? Any advice greatly appreciated 🙏

Do you know how to connect/configure buttons and joysticks that would enable a 2 joystick game (e.g. Robotron)?

I have an issue with my super console x cube that I have installed on my arcade 1 up. When I have arcade joysticks plugged in the emulec screen reboots 2 to 8 times before starting up which can take 5 minutes or more also happens when exiting a game. Now when I unplug them and just run the controller supplied with console it boots up immediately. What gives. Also sometimes player one will be player 2 and visa versa after restarting or playing later on. Any ideas?

When I program player 2, then on player 1 - up becomes down, B becomes A, left becomes right, etc. I can always have either player 1 or 2 working, but the other will be reversed

Is there any way to reset my buttons so I can map them again....i think I pressed a bunch of random buttons during this process cause I had a black screen. Is there a way that I can do it again?

YESSS!! Finally!

I have a problem maybe this video make sense. I bought 1 Brook encoder for player 1 for mg arcade just to able to play PS4 but now it’s not working probably on most of the game after hit select. But it work on the menu screen. Do you think it’s a problem? Do I need to have 2 encoder must be the same brand ? Thank you

but what if your arcade is a 1 player only?

My buttons all seem to work fine in menu screens but in arcade games player 2 up doesn’t work. Both controllers look wired the same and I’ve reset all my controllers and remapped. Not sure what to do any help is appreciated.

Can you tell me why when I try to play 2 player games like frogger or Pac-Man using 2 usb encoders only player 1 works, but when I play a game like Mario Bros. Or Gauntlet they play great. During simultaneous play both joysticks work good. I followed this video and both encoders are wired the same way. I remapped the joysticks in the game but I can’t get player 2 to work when trying to play 2 player games. Any idea what I am not doing? I’m running it on a i5 PC and I am using EZ start zero delay usb encoders.

It has to be like for like for each slot.

Hello.... I'm having a heck of a time with the encoders on a new arcade 1up setup. Can't find anything online and was hoping you could steer me in the right direction please? Sometimes the arcade boots up into retropie /emulationstation and works perfectly, and sometimes it gets an error message right after it loads the emulators...blue screen "emulationstation crashed!" I've noticed that the lights on the usb encoder stay solid red when it boots correctly, but they (sometimes 1 or 2 of a 4 player arcade) flash prior to the error message. So everytime I see them start flashing during boot I know it's not going to load. I've switched out all usb's, wires, sd cards, raspberry pi 3b+, power cords, power strip, etc and am drawing a blank. I've made probably 30 arcades, all exactly the same way with my same image and this is the first time I've seen anything like this. The odd thing is when I put the sd card in after I build an arcade the buttons and everything are already mapped. The first time with this one....joystick and buttons worked for emulationstation, but not in games so I had to remap them and then they worked, but.....next time I restarted the arcade I got the error message. Sorry for the long message, but this is driving me crazy. Thank you for your time. 👍

Has anyone else ever had issues with control inputs randomly dropping