ff7 controller issue

[Omega Rechara]

greetings, firstime poster, longtime viewer/user. neway, i recently decided to play ff7 again along with my xenogears redo and, after downloading the iso parts and doing a full extraction (just disk one so far though) i loaded up the game, worked fine, cept i couldn't get into the game itself, the initial credits on the start up screen worked fine but i couldn't get past that (i.e. the buttons i had chosen for the circle triangle square and x wouldn't work even though they work on other games), if u got some suggestions let me know, running epsxe 1.6 with configured plugins and able to run my other isos fine with controller, just not sure what's going on here

[ether202]

Try pressing F5 and try the controller again. Just hit it, don't hold it down. I had a similar problem with Castlevania: SOTN and that fixed it. I guess it switches the controller between analog and digital mode.