Was playing this game on PC with a friend, two player local versus mode. The game crashed almost every time I tried to set my controls. I was using a modded Hitbox arcade controller at the time, and it would crash every time I went to set my controls. My friend was using an unmodded Xbox MadCatz TE2 stick, and he could set his controls just fine. After switching to an Xbox 360 controller, the crashing issue seemed not occur anymore.
Rather, we had another issue instead. Frequently during our games, our control schemes would switch. My friend like to play using the "alternate inputs" option, and I play using the default inputs. Frequently, sometimes even mid match, my controls would switch from default inputs to alternate inputs, and we couldn't figure out a way to make it stop other than just switching our controls back every few matches or so.
'Guess it's another thing that NRS/HVS will have to patch later.