thanks peepz..ill dual boot until and wait for updated recalbox with kodi 17

https://file.ac/nY8O6--rWgg/ heres my system info.. am i right in thinking the controllers dont match in recalbox and kodi?

hi, im relatively new to recalbox ive managed to get it all setup and working fine on a raspberry pi 2 with roms from external HDD, now i want to setup kodi..
but my controller isnt working (a/b/x/y buttons work, d-pad doesnt). ive setup the control multiple times in recalbox (as per instructions in both this forum and the wiki) but no matter what i do the d-pad..keyboard works..but i dont always have it plugged in..
the controller is a gamerpi snes wannabe..
i thought maybe kodi isnt reading the config from the HDD, so i set recalbox back to internal, redefined the controls, and started kodi, but i still have the exact same results...
does any one have any ideas how to fix it? (it worked fine on the older version of recalbox!)