I just seem to always find myself in these road blocks.
Got my pandora box stick gpio to my rasperry pi , everything working perfectly, I decided i wanted to hook up some wires to the gpio to turn on the arcade stick with the switch the came with the pandora box, it also turns on the pandora box led lights to the controller, well big mistake cause it uses a 12v adapter and i placed in pins 5 and 6 connected to wires from the switch and now arcade stick is phantom button pushing and i cant ge the down on player one and player two to work and the stick jus moves up on the menu on its own. I dont even know where to go from here, did i fry my pi, any help would be greatly appreciated.

update, I spent so many hours prior to this post to try to figure it out. Im knowledge of run command and programming is very limited that i ended up trying something different and using the gpio pin from the rasperri pi and connected my arcade stick that way. I made sure to write down where everythings went jus incase it didnt work. I did the first player and got the arcade stick to work after enabling gpio in web manager. I still would love to know what is wrong but i assume at this point its to late create a support archive, thanks for the help to all.

yes i will do that when i get home.

how do i do that?

yes everything is mapped out properly.

there is one usb output for the dual arcade stick. 2 sticks one usb. recalbox recognizes them as 0-ps3/pc and 1-ps3/pc something like that

Yes through my hdmi tv . there is two usb on the arcade stick and 3 on my tv. is that what you meant?

Im sorry it does have bluetooth dont know what i was thinking.
I did map it out in emulationstation.
My arcade stick is a pandora box arcade stick with usb 2.0. seen here
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2-Players-PC-mental-Arcade-Joystick-Control-panel-arcade-game-console-999-1299-1388-2020-in/32940730588.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.5bec4c4dlcAEWF

I only ventured to recalbox cause after i bought this thing the software crapped out on me after a week, and couldnt return it as it would cost just as much as i bought it. thank you for replying ,

Hello im really looking for some help I have scoured the internet trying to figure this out, I have a dual usb arcade stick I can get the controller to work but have to unplug the arcade stick and plug it back into the usb port when i enter the emulator/game and exiting into emulation station have to do the same and sometimes it doesnt even work. My ps4 controller is hooked up through usb as i have a pi 3 that does not have bluetooth, The ps4 works .
Any clue, what might be wrong. i have tried everything, except configure the Es_input which i dont know how to do .. i have used putty and F4 jus dont know the commands.

any help would be great i have tiredlessly tried configuring this for the last week. My arcade stick is recognized as two serperate controllers (ps3/PC) any help would be great.

Update im able to get the controllers to work now properly, my issue now is that everytime i enter a game or exit it i have to unplug then replug the arcade stick usb. but the ps4 is working properly via usb. any idea why i have to always unplug it going from after leaving or going to a game.

Thanks