iPac2 USB with Pi4, not holding my Controller Configuration

alb

I have an ipac2 USB with arcade controls wired up.
I had this working ok with a RetroPie/EmulationStation setup.
…And was able to use Start/Select[Hotkey] to exit a game and return to EmulationStation.

I flashed my Pi4’s memory card with a new Batocera image 5.26.

Added some roms and scraped some art.

Then I went to setup the controls.

I followed the prompts, defining my joystick up/down/left/right.
And I continued to map for the A/B/X/Y, L1&R1, Start/Select, and a Hotkey.

Having done that, my navigation around the theme menu works ok;
I can press my “start” button to get the menu, likewise the other menu from “select” button.
I can enter an emulator category using my “A” button, and back out to the main emulator selection menu with the “B” button.

But whenever I enter an emulator/system, and actually select a game, strange things happen within the game;

My joystick works fine, but;
…None of my A/B/X/Y seem to input at all, and do nothing.
…The buttons I had defined as L1&R1 seem to action as A/B [so do Jump and Attack in games].
And pressing both Start & Select[Hotkey] do not return my out of the game.

I cannot exit the game using any combination of buttons.

So I am having to force power down for now, and reboot.

Can anyone help please?
Is there a file I can/should perhaps delete and try again?

I have gone through the Controller Configuration a number of times, and although it accepts inputs for each button, when I exit and play a game, I get these behaviours.

voljega

https://wiki.batocera.org/ipac2_usb_controllers?s[]=ipac

alb

Thanks, I did look at that page first before posting, but noted the comment there at the top;
“Do not change the key mappings of your IPAC2 as it is unnecessary”

It then mentions this linke;
“If your usb keyboard controller isn’t recognized automatically, follow these steps”

The fact that my iPac controller is recognised, I made an assumption that I shouldn’t/didn’t need to, perform any of those following steps.

My controls, both my joystick and my buttons, do work when I’m navigating the main [top tier] Batocera menus, and also my theme’s Emulator selection tier menu…

…It’s only once I start up a game to play, that the controls then go all skewed.
Where the button I mapped within the Controller Configuration to be my L1 acts as Jump when playing Alex Kidd in Master System.
And the button I mapped to be my L2 acts as Punch.
And the actual buttons I had mapped to be A and B do nothing [as do X and Y, Start and Select].

And when pressing Start & Select [Select is my Hotkey] it does nothing.

It’s very strange, as I say it’s fine in the menus, and the theme, but not within any games of any system.

I did wonder, if perhaps I had an older i-pac, I’ve had it a long time, but it is the i-pac 2, I ordered it from Arcade World, and is this one shown in the image halfway down this page;
https://www.arcadeworlduk.com/pages/IPAC-2-Code-Table.html

And it works perfectly fine when using my SD card with Retropi image, even on that I have the same theme, Epic Noir.

But I wanted to use this Batocera, and this is where I’m encountering this issue/behaviour.

Davizlancs

alb

Hi I am having the same issues with my ipac2 what did you do to fix it please?

voljega

You need to do these steps, I will remove the line about recognition.
Also the IPAC2 needs to be in keyboard mode