[Samba123]

Entirely understandable. With that said, the two are not mutually exclusive. At my girlfriend's place, we use the two interchangeably to control XBMC. No setting changes are required to switch back and forth and you could use them at the same time if you wanted.

The only gotcha is that having the xbox 360 controller keymap means that when in an emulator the controller is controlling XBMC *and* the game at the same time. Since so many people were running into this, the 'workaround' is to have a kill script that kills XBMC when you launch the game, then returns to XBMC when you end the game. The added benefit is that your CPU and RAM are not being eaten up by XBMC. I believe some Launcher plugins (Advanced Launcher, ROM Collection Browser, etc) have a mode like this already built in.

Got it working how I wanted following your guide last night. Left out step 5 but also didn't edit the jaunty script in step 6 because I only have 1 controller.

Worked pretty much straight away in zsnes - just needed to map the controls across. Mame wouldn't work at all which frustrated me for a bit until I decided to check mame.ini and found that joystick wasn't enabled there. Fixed that and then Mame all worked too.

Spot on - thanks for the assist. I'll have a think about what you said putting the 360 keymap in too. I had read about the Launcher xbmc kill/pause script and may look at that depending on how my emus appear to run going forward.