u/derrick36

I’m new to Duckststion. I’m struggling a bit with the controller setup.

Our kids’ gaming computer uses windows 11. I have all the emulators opening through Steam using Steam Roms Manager. All of that works fine.

Right now, I have 2 Xbox controllers that they use for Steam. I also purchased 2 DS4 controllers, because I thought they’d be fun to use in the PlayStation emulators.

My hope is that a person could pick up any controller they feel like using, and navigate Steam and be able to play any game in Duckstation. That’s where I’m getting screwed up.

When I launch DS by itself, outside of Steam, I can make any of the 4 controllers work by themselves. I’ve even been able to make a single controller work inside of Steam the way I want.

What I can’t do is make it all come together. I’ll get one DS4 to work, but the other won’t work for player 2.

I’ll get one Xbox controller to work, but the DS4 controllers won’t.

From what I gather, they all need to show as Xinput controllers.

I’ve had a couple weird situations where both ds4 controllers are bounds as -0 xinput and -1 xinput, but they’re only working as player 1.

I’m clearly missing a step, or many for that matter.

Before I forget, their PC doesn’t have onboard Bluetooth. I have wireless adapters for the controllers. A Microsoft one for all of our Xbox one controllers. The DS4’s are a bit different. I have an official Sony Bluetooth adapter for Windows which is paired to one controller and an 8bitdo wireless adapter for the other DS4.

The official Sony one makes the DS4 show up as a DS4 in Duckststion. The 8bitdo adapter makes the other show up as an Xinput controller.

I was thinking that was the problem, so I purchased a second 8bitdo adapter and I’ll remove the official Sony one. Maybe that’s a dumb idea, but it’s only $20$. I’m fine if it fixes the problem.

Long story short. Can I get all 4 controllers to work, so depending on which controller a person prefers, they can just grab and go, or is what I’m trying to do, not easily possible?

Sorry for the wall of text.

Plexamp stopped working mid song.