Gamepad indices do not match Windows / indicator LEDs

[shambles1980]

Running windows 10 with two 8bitdo sn30 pro usb, and two generic xbox 360 pads. These indicate which one is player 1 - 4 with the led lights.
P.c games on the system adhere to this (the game pad with player one indicated via LED are indeed player 1 or player 2-4 respectively)
the Mame plus command line version also adheres to this In fact all systems i have setup adhere to this. Apart from emuhawk.

Every emulator i set up using emuhawk detects the player 1 controller as x4 ,player 2 is x3, player 3 is x2, and player 4 is x1.

this is 100% backwards and is making the use of emuhawk impossible for me.
If i chose to use the emulators nativity (example) if i use snes9x.exe and configure that, it detects the controllers correctly.
i would prefer to use emuhawk as i prefer to edit an ini file via scripting as and when needed. and not all emulators support this. But currently i am having to use all the individual emulators rather than emuhawk because of this issue.

i cannot find any way to fix this behaviour in emuhawk.

[Morilli]

Could you check the controller info emuhawk reports on startup? Open a cmd window in the bizhawk folder and run .\EmuHawk.exe > log.txt, then upload that log here.

Maybe @CasualPokePlayer has an idea if anything is wrong with the controller code. I have briefly checked the code and it seems fine. I also don't have multiple controllers to effectively test this.

[CasualPokePlayer]

Does say mGBA or melonDS also have the same issue? They also have SDL used for input backends.