Novice at their wits' end trying ot make Batocera/I-Pac2/mini PC work together..

[twospare]

HI guys, I've done some reading of this forum, Batocera's forum, and Reddit, but I'm still no closer to solving my problem.

I have the following set up:

1. Elitedesk G2 800 mini PC running Batocera 40

2. I-PAC 2

I have the I-PAC set to XInput mode, and as far as Batocera itself goes, it seems to work. All buttons correspond to their correct positions, the problems begin when I attempt to enter any game at all. Absolutely nothing works how it should.

Street Fighter is a great example. Everything works except the 2 player stick. All buttons on both sides work, the only thing that doesn't work is the stick.

I'm a complete novice, but I'm not technically illiterate, but have found Ultimarc's documentation to be largely useless to me as it seems to assume that everything simply works out of the box.

Is there a series of steps I'm supposed to have taken with this? Mapping the keys seems to have no effect in Batocera, and connecting a bluetooth controller presents similar problems. It works perfectly in Batocera, but the moment I switch to a game, nothing behaves correctly. I also cannot access menus whilst in game, or exit the game, or select play, etc..

The documentation I look at feels like it assumes a high level of competance, and I'm complete beginner at this stuff.

Any help would be really appreciated!

[MartyKong]

I recently set up a Retrobat system (which may be similar to batocera) and noticed in the controller file it only allowed for one keyboard. Since the player 2 buttons work it seems to be in xinput mode. Does batocera output a master file which could help to see what's going on?