HyperSpin/RocketLauncher/MAME -- USB difficulties

[whynotpizza]

Here is the dilema...

My Configuration is the following....
  Windows 7 x64
  Asus Z97-A USB 3.1 Motherboard - capable of driving QTY 12 USB devices
  HyperSpin (latest version)
  RocketLauncher (latest version)
  MAME (v169)
  joy2key (latest version) - handles U360 to KB mappings for HyperSpin

I am having difficulties deciding how to maintain consistent 15+ USB targets for each of the following devices...

Ultimarc U360 1
Ultimarc U360 2
Ultimarc U360 3
Ultimarc U360 4
Ultimarc iPac (keyboard)
Ultimarc OptiPac (trackball)
Ultimarc AimTrak 1
Ultimarc AimTrak 2
Ultimarc AimTrak Lite Bar
Generic Bluetooth for QTY 2 8bitdo retro controllers
Microsoft Bluetooth for QTY 2 Xbox 360 controllers
Apache Controls Blackhawk Spinner 1
Apache Controls Blackhawk Spinner 2
Computer Keyboard
Computer Mouse

Software is all configured and working clean (Hyperspin, RocketLauncher and MAME)

The problem I have is that at various times the USB devices will get scrambled and MAME Configurations get lost and need to be re-done. Yuck!

This of course is a common problem as I can see, which apparently is fixed in a future version of MAME not yet available (v179). Thank you tverona!    http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,151710.0.html

Unfortunately I would like to stay on the current verison of MAME in my cabinet (v169).

So this means:
a) Rebuild v169 to incorporate tverona's fix (tried and was not successful)
b) Use an alternate means (ControllerRemap) to manage the USB ID problem. Thank you drventure!
      http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,108767.0.html

What do you guys think? I am leaning toward using ControllerRemap since I want to maintain this v169 release of MAME.

Also, does anyone have recommendations on which device(s) I should plug directly into the motherboard versus plugging into an external powered HUB? My thought was to hook 4-U360, 2-AimTrak, 2-Bluetooth, OptiPak, iPac to the motherboard USB, and have 2-Spinners, KB and Mouse all on the HUB.

Any ideas/thoughts are welcome!

Thanks,

  David

[MartyKong]

Currently building my control panel but will soon have the same problems as you. I'm hoping Mame .179 will work for me. If not on the software page, check out the last page of the controllerremap discussion. Stigzler and Arcadeguns wrote GUI interfaces to help make controller remap easier to configure. Try these and let me know how they work for you. Hoping for good news