Wrong Exit on Default N64 Emulator

matalog

@'!Hey Guys General N64 Problem Here I guess,

I have a Raspberry Pie Model 3B, running the latest 4.3? retropie.

Everything is running good. I have in general L2+Start=Exit game. However in N64 emulator mupen64plus(default) , for (at least) 007 Goldeneye, it EXITS on Pressing L2! It leaves the game. With only pressing L2.

In the normal setup of the whole rest of my retropie console, I have the buttons L2 and Start (button) leading to Exit Game. Does anyone know why this might be arising?

It would be good to know dudes?
It would be great to know in fact! :-)

Thanks for any help :-)

Matalog.

TMNTturtlguy

@matalog its because the n64 emulator is not a retroarch emulator. You need to set the button mapping manually. There are instructions in the documents and several threads on this. I am on my phone so I won't point you to them, but the info is very easy to find.

simonster

@matalog

The document @TMNTturtlguy mentioned is: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Nintendo-64/

We are all for helping people, but you really must try to help yourself. If you'd opened the Docs link (at the top of the page) and opened the "Emulators --> Nintendo 64" you would have found the information yourself.

Si

matalog

Thanks for replying @TMNTturtlguy, I have read that document a few times, and it still isn't very clear. I also did a search for all of the several threads that you mention, and I could only find one unanswered person asking why L2 exits the emulator.

I guess that you are saying that the problem is within /opt/retropie/configs/n64/mupen64plus.cfg

Joystick event string for stopping the emulator

Joy Mapping Stop = "J0B6/B9,J1B6/B9"

Do you have any idea how to change that so that it will require B9 and B6 both pressed simultaneously together to exit?

Oh, and the point of my post, apart from finding the answer, is... Why is the same button used as Z trigger, assigned to exit emulator on the default emulator on Retropie? Won't that cause a little bit of a problem with any game that uses the trigger? DEFAULT EMULATOR! DEFAULT SETTING!

@simonster I'm not sure how helpful I have found your post, I had opened that document 5 times before I posted here. It doesn't mention that the default emulator for N64 on retropie, uses the same exit button as Z trigger, and isn't clear on how to change it to a combination of buttons. Why don't you actually complete the part you were supposed to play in being helpful and try and answer my question, instead of being the mildly rude 'helper' who suggests that a question asker reads the docs.

simonster

If it is using the automatic configuration from the EmulationStation settings, the controls should be as the diagram in the documentation.

SELECT+START together is normally the exit combination.

Is there a chance that you have created a custom mapping for the emulator?

What controller are you using?

matalog

I am using Speedlink Strike NX control pads, which, without any adjustments, are read as 360 pads.

I have just tried Mario Kart and Smash Bros on the same emulator, and they both stay in game with L2 pressed and exit as expected with L2 +Start - so it seems that this issue is only with 007 Goldeneye, any ideas why that would act different to other roms? Can anyone try it out? I'm using latest version of Retropie, mupen64plus(auto) (which is default).

If it is using the automatic configuration from emulation station, then it should use the hotkey assigned button (L2 in my case) and Start - and that is what other games recognise as an exit instruction, and work okay, and that is what i expected the game to use.

I have not created custom mapping for mupen64plus(auto).

matalog

I deleted the ROM and added a different version, and it now works as expected.

Thanks for the answers.