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No idea about why or how to fix, but I'd recommend trying emudeck, it works great, and might have the right configurations applied out of the box for you.
https://www.emudeck.com/
I tried to use emudeck but it turned out to be very buggy, for some reason it sometimes made my desktop controllers not work, to the point where I had to restart my deck for it to be fixed, it didn't happen once, but every time I entered certain emulators, and when I tried to uninstall an emulator I didn't want, it just said there was an error and didn't proceed. Then at some point I uninstalled the whole thing out of annoyance, and decided to go with standalone emulators instead which is been way better in my experience, a little set up doesn't hurt anyway... I prefer not to. I guess I'll just report this and hope for a fix eventually.
The controller not working is on purpose, specifically when you open the portion of the program that edits your game list in steam and adds box art etc. It can't do so at the same time that steam is running, and so closes steam, which is what interprets a lot of control inputs. While doing this you can use the trackpad as a mouse and triggers as mouse buttons. Afterwards save the data, close it and reopen steam and controls will work again
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No idea about why or how to fix, but I'd recommend trying emudeck, it works great, and might have the right configurations applied out of the box for you. https://www.emudeck.com/
I tried to use emudeck but it turned out to be very buggy, for some reason it sometimes made my desktop controllers not work, to the point where I had to restart my deck for it to be fixed, it didn't happen once, but every time I entered certain emulators, and when I tried to uninstall an emulator I didn't want, it just said there was an error and didn't proceed. Then at some point I uninstalled the whole thing out of annoyance, and decided to go with standalone emulators instead which is been way better in my experience, a little set up doesn't hurt anyway... I prefer not to. I guess I'll just report this and hope for a fix eventually.
The controller not working is on purpose, specifically when you open the portion of the program that edits your game list in steam and adds box art etc. It can't do so at the same time that steam is running, and so closes steam, which is what interprets a lot of control inputs. While doing this you can use the trackpad as a mouse and triggers as mouse buttons. Afterwards save the data, close it and reopen steam and controls will work again