multiple controllers with hotkey access?

dankcushions

@smoothmalik said in multiple controllers with hotkey access?:

@dankcushions I have p1 setup as nespro 30 and p2 setup as ps4 controller. Is there a way to make the ps4 controller if that is the only one i activate automatically be setup for hotkey controllers since it is now p1? What im running into is if I run out of juice on my nespro30 and instead use ps4 controller now as p1 I have to go into retroarch and now remap the layout for the controls again since the nespro was originaly mapped as p1.

i don't really understand why you have to remap - mappings aren't stored per player, they're stored per controller.

hotkeys are only active on P1, so if you have two controllers plugged in, and unplug P1, then P2 will now have live hotkeys.

smoothmalik

@dankcushions i'm mapping strictly in retroach. If nespro 30 is p1 and I map that and also assign the hotkey to the select button , and I also map p2 as the ps4 controller where there is no mapping of the hotkey . If i choose to only use the ps4 controller and it defaults to p1 retroach nolonger knows what to use for the hotkey because this was never mapped previously. Is there a way to overcome this? Where any P1 can always have the same hotkey that its programmed to no matter what type of controller is activated. I hope this makes sense.

pirossi

same problem same cuestion, i have 6 controllers, 2snes,2ps3, and 2 joystick all configured, in game work ok but hotkeys dont work okay.
when i unplug joystick and i conect a diferent controller, hotkey map change because they take before gamepad hotkey config asignation ...
i whant if it posible to recognice correctly, i have made individually,configuration keymap and hotkeys in:
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/
i want retropie only take that adress configurations hotkeys, in game for each gamepad.
if i conect ps3 controller, and if i disconnect and conect other gamepad.

is posible?

thanks!

dankcushions

@pirossi said in multiple controllers with hotkey access?:

is posible?

no, the issue linked above is still open. it's currently only possible to use hotkeys and retroarch functions for player 1.

Dinierto

@dankcushions said in multiple controllers with hotkey access?:

@pirossi said in multiple controllers with hotkey access?:

is posible?

no, the issue linked above is still open. it's currently only possible to use hotkeys and retroarch functions for player 1.

Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but I'm not sure you understand his issue. Yes he was asking about hotkeys for player 2, but he's also saying that when he uses a different controller as player 1, they hotkeys no longer work because they are set for the previous controller. For example, if I have save state set to button 10 on a controller, then I unplug it and plug in another controller, button 10 is now some other button and so the hotkey I had set before no longer works. I'm having this same experience and was wondering also if there's a solution.

edmaul69

@dinierto if you stop setting up the configs inside retroarch and use/ edit the autoconfig files in /opt/retropie/configs/retroarch/autoconfig/ then you wont have those issues.

Dinierto

@edmaul69 said in multiple controllers with hotkey access?:

@dinierto if you stop setting up the configs inside retroarch and use/ edit the autoconfig files in /opt/retropie/configs/retroarch/autoconfig/ then you wont have those issues.

I've done that, either I'm doing it wrong or it didn't work. I set the keys in the autoconfig files but it hasn't done anything

edmaul69

@dinierto do them the same as they show up in retroarch but remove the player1 part so they match how everything else is done in the autoconfigs.

Dinierto

@edmaul69 I'm sorry but I don't know what you mean. What am I editing now? The autoconfigs don't have Player 1. I just changed the button numbers to match what I wanted them to be.

edmaul69

@dinierto sorry site when down for maintenance while i was trying to post a new post. you can change the numbers and you can also add new stuff. anything that is done in the retroarch.cfg can also be done in the autoconfigs. for example i added these to my ps3 controller:

input_disk_eject_toggle_btn = "12"
input_disk_next_btn = "11"
input_disk_prev_btn = "10"

however you need to delete the configs you created for the autoconfigs to work.

Dinierto

@edmaul69 said in multiple controllers with hotkey access?:

@dinierto sorry site when down for maintenance while i was trying to post a new post. you can change the numbers and you can also add new stuff. anything that is done in the retroarch.cfg can also be done in the autoconfigs. for example i added these to my ps3 controller:
input_disk_eject_toggle_btn = "12"
input_disk_next_btn = "11"
input_disk_prev_btn = "10"
however you need to delete the configs you created for the autoconfigs to work.

Okay, I've set those buttons. Which config would I delete? I haven't created any myself.