PSX crashing attract mode

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Greetings all,  i have recently setup attract mode and all emulators are working as intended sans PSX.  I have tried all retroarch cores and epsxe but the moment I press start to initiate gameplay after the initial preview screen of the game, the emulators goes into a suspended state and attract mode hangs then crashes.  Has anyone else seen this behavior and know of a fix?

I am running this in Win10 with the latest stable download of attractmode.

[roadrage999]

All, after doing some more troubleshooting, and watching debug mode, my gamepad start button was relaying as the global pause hotkey, keyboard launch works as intended.

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Confirmed this is only effecting PSX, all other launchers are working as intended with no interruption on the gamepad.

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resolved in config file