Controller Input Not Recognized Until Replugging It about sonic-1-2-2013-decompilation HOT 4 CLOSED

I found that defining RETRO_DISABLE_CONTROLLER_HOTSWAP fixes the issue, but that comes with the opposite problem from before. There's probably a better solution, though.

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Similar problem when booting on Xbox/UWP. About 50% of the times the app is started, controller input doesn't work. Once that happens, no amount of closing and reopening the app will allow controller recognition. But reconnecting the controller while the app is running will always fix it. Controller connects pretty much 100% of the time after console is rebooted, if this is the first app run.

Edit: This seems to be partially resolved in the latest version. No more randomness in controller input. But exiting out of the app by pressing B at the first screen will seem to suspend it rather than fully quit. Going back in before you force quit will still lose controller input. But once you've quit and restarted it, it seems to be fine. I think the solution here would be not to allow exiting out by going "back" at the top level.

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Not sure if this is due to the same issue/behavior, but I've found that my controller (a Dualshock 4) is also unresponsive until alt-tabbing out of the program and alt-tabbing back in. After that, everything works just fine.

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I wonder if the following patch might fix this:

diff --git a/Sonic12Decomp/main.cpp b/Sonic12Decomp/main.cpp
index d4c7a50..3a6819c 100644
--- a/Sonic12Decomp/main.cpp
+++ b/Sonic12Decomp/main.cpp
@@ -10,7 +10,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
     SDL_SetHint(SDL_HINT_WINRT_HANDLE_BACK_BUTTON, "1");
     Engine.Init();
 #if RETRO_USING_SDL2
-    controllerInit(0);
+    for (Uint8 i = 0; i < SDL_NumJoysticks(); ++i) {
+      if (SDL_IsGameController(i)) {
+        controllerInit(i);
+        break;
+      }
+    }
 #endif
     Engine.Run();

Didn't have a lot of time for testing, so not sure if this is even related to the issue. But I noticed it as a potential problem while reading the code, so I thought I'd mention it.

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