Problem with joystick inputs in MAME

[Merculix]

Hi guys,

I wonder if you could help me out with this one.

I have had trouble with my configuration in Neo Geo games before. It seemed that MAME wasn't able to save the inputs I made for Imput (General) or Input (This Game)´. I thought that it just were my Neo Geo games that were trouble with but now it seems severeal other games also are affected. I have plugged in 2 extra USB controllers into my PC (1 is a normal PC controller, the other is a GC controller connected from a special switch) Both controllers is configured in the Control Panel, so they work fine.

For some reson it seems that these two controllers save their information all the time but the input I set for P1 and P2 is ovverided by P3 and P4 respectivly. When playing Neo Geo games it's automatically set to all the keys for P1 + P3 and for player 2 it's P2 + P4.

How may I solve this. It's very annoying to have to set up the controllers all the time I shall play.

I have an X-Arcade controller. The X-Arcade can be manually configured but I have never touched that function.

Is there any script or something like configuring the buttons for GameEx for MAME???

Please help a confused person out will ya.

UPDATE:

I've found the problem. It's not connected to GameEx nor MAME, it's my controllers that ovveride the x-Arcade because it's handled as a keyboard (stupid) and therefore doesn't have any JoyID to set.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem. I'm very frustrated by this. I must be able to have two additional USB controllers and the X-Arcade.