HotKey issues

kal318

It appears there's a lot of people having this problem and no good fix in site. So I'm writing to add to the list of people with the same. So like many others, the hotkeys for my controller do not work at all. As in none of them. I can't not Start+select out, save or load, or reset. Ac-cross all consoles and controllers minus the keyboard. Keyboard assign hotkeys are fine. Please help.

mitu

@kal318 Please give more details about your system and how the problem occurs - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
Hotkeys work for me - as for countless users on the forum - , plase indicate the game you're trying, the emulator and how did you map your controller.

caver01

@kal318 Yeah, I think you are exaggerating problems with hotkeys. Retropie does not have a problem with hotkeys. This forum is filled with people who have questions, and questions about hotkeys come up often, but the issues come from a misunderstanding of retroarch/libretro framework combined with the fact that none of us use the same hardware. I use a keyboard controller (IPAC) with arcade controls while you might use a particular gamepad, and we both made different choices at first-run about what buttons we map to what functions, or what changes we made in our .cfg files. It is a source of confusion, and a configuration choice that needs to match the need, but I would not call it a problem.

Case in point, you say keyboard hotkeys are working for you. It probably means you have a keyboard key assigned as the hotkey which would be perfectly normal for me since I use a keyboard controller. It is not a problem, just a a different configuration. It would be like me saying there is a problem with sandwiches because of all of that disgusting mayonnaise I always find. Add me to the list of dry sandwich lovers who cannot find a solution to this mayonnaise problem.

In any case, Your question is a good one and we can probably get you straightened out, but you need to add a lot more detail about your configuration as @mitu suggests above. For example, how did you build your system? We have seen a lot of time wasted on misconfigured third party images where we have no clue how someone else might have messed up choices for you.