RetroPie-joystick-selection VS RetroPie-Extra

In Retropie I downloaded a controller script that allows you to pick which controller is player 1-4 for each system from all the controllers connected. So for example my arcade games use 1-4(joysticks), N64 uses port 5 and 6(N64 controllers) as player 1 and 2, SNES and NES used 7 and 8(SNES controllers) for player 1 and 2. That works flawlessly for all my systems. The issue though is I can select 9 and 10 as my player 1 and 2 for my sega games but the controllers don’t work at all, not even in the Retroarch menu but they do in ES. If I swap the physical order of the sega controllers and SNES controllers, the sega controllers will work and the SNES ones won’t. So it seems like 8 is the cutoff for me right now.

You might be able to do this with meleu's Joystick Selection script, available either standalone or as part of RetroPie-Extra. I would try, set the gamepads to always use players 1 and 2, then let the arcade controls remain default/unset. So when the gamepads are connected they'll take priority, and then when they aren't, I think the arcade controls should still work in place.

Try this optional package. It lets you assign controllers to specific ports: https://github.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection

I've never done a conversion like yours but I think there's a joystick function that tells the controllers to always be in a specified order. Perhaps that would help you? https://github.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection

Check in the rpie setup there should be a joystick script that can set the order etc. Its created by dev Meleu If not get and apply from here https://github.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection

Over in the retro-pi world there was a utility called Joystick Select that would let you define per-emulator controllers. For example, when launching NES if you have your NES controller plugged in, it would default P1 to that, otherwise it would use the default usb-encoder

Have you tried this ? :https://github.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection

You might be able to do this with meleu's Joystick Selection script, available either standalone or as part of RetroPie-Extra. I would try, set the gamepads to always use players 1 and 2, then let the arcade controls remain default/unset. So when the gamepads are connected they'll take priority, and then when they aren't, I think the arcade controls should still work in place.

If you are ok with a standalone web browser Then https://github.com/Exarkuniv/RetroPie-Extra has a few web browsers in the supplementary folder.

Well you have this repo with a ton of new ports https://github.com/Exarkuniv/RetroPie-Extra

Have you tried this scriptmodule for lr-same_cdi? https://github.com/Exarkuniv/RetroPie-Extra/blob/master/scriptmodules/libretrocores/lr-samecdi.sh

I'm running RetroPie 4.8 on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+. I've been trying to install lr-same_cdi from RetroPie-Extra but it seems like it's hanging up in the same place every time. The install seems to go fine for the first several minutes, but it inevitably hangs up while compiling src/emu/devcb.cpp. Eventually it will error out with the standard "could not build" error:

Interesting, I used Exarkuniv’s version from this GitHub. I am on a PiBoy DMG, I don’t know if that makes a difference? Usually any port that works on a standard controller works on it.

The ecwolf package available in RetroPie-Extra is based off of wolf4sdl and includes full controller remapping (so you can use dual analog sticks like a modern FPS title).

Some of those ports are available in RetroPie-Extra: