MaLa + 4 U360's

[piecesof8]

So I'm finally nearing the completion of my cocktail build, and I'm currently trying to wrap my brain around mala's controller options.

What I've got is your fairly basic 3-sided cocktail cab, with a U360 at each player position. The way I currently have them set up is ID #1 at the vertical P1 position, ID #2 at the vertical P2 position, ID #3 at the horizontal P1 position, and ID #4 at the horizontal P2 position. I'm attaching an illustration to help clarify.

What I want to do is auto-rotate and load a different game list depending on which controls are used. I've got it working the way I want using a keyboard - got my Horizontal and Vertical game lists set up, got my layout set up to work in either orientation, etc - so now I just need to transfer that same behavior to the joysticks. Now, if I'm understanding mala's settings dialogs correctly, it can only recognize 2 joysticks for purposes of rotation/navigation: ID #1 and ID #2. So what I'm thinking I need to do is swap the ID's of my vertical P2 and horizontal P1 sticks - so that I will then have ID #1 at the vertical P1 position and ID #2 at the horizontal P1 position - and then map the inputs for each player accordingly in mame.

Does this sound about right, or is there something I'm missing?

Thanks.