Passing argument/parameter to emulator

[m3chstaa]

I would be so grateful if someone could help me with this problem. I have found personally that the PPSSPP emulator is significantly better than using the lr-ppsspp one. The performance is better and the sound actually works properly in many games. However, it comes with a drawback I cannot stand- I can't exit straight from a game back to emulationstation! I found a way to do this on my PC by passing the "-escape--exit" parameter to the ppsspp emulator, in which case I can configure the "pause" button to quit straight out. Now, I would love to do this on my pi setup but I don't know if passing the same parameter will work. More importantly, I don't know how to pass parameters to the emulator so that I can try this!

Can any genius help?!?

[zerojay]

@m3chstaa You can add the parameter to the emulator.cfg file for psp, I'm pretty sure.

[m3chstaa]

@zerojay Man, you are a hero! It works!

For anyone else who may be searching this, I have found how to exit from PPSSPP straight back to retropie using a quit button. Make sure you have all your settings correct within PPSSPP. Once you are happy with your settings then configure the "pause menu" in Controls to the button that you want to use to exit the emulator. If the mouse pointer is also an issue to you then you will find that by ticking the "Fullscreen" option that this disappears.

Ok so now find your configs folder, go into "psp" folder and find emulators.cfg. Edit this using your chosen method and find the line

ppsspp = "/opt/retropie/emulators/ppsspp/PPSSPPSDL %ROM%"

Change it to:

ppsspp = "/opt/retropie/emulators/ppsspp/PPSSPPSDL %ROM% --escape-exit"

Save it and now your "pause" button will exit the PSP game straight back to your frontend.

Obviously you can no longer get into your settings unless you reverse this procedure and remove the "--escape-exit" parameter.

[m3chstaa]

@m3chstaa
Update (May 2020)
I believe they changed things such that this doesn't work anymore. However if you put the "--escape-exit" before the %ROM% it works.

[noise]

@m3chstaa

Hello

i try:

ppsspp = "/opt/retropie/emulators/ppsspp/PPSSPPSDL --fullscreen --escape-exit %ROM%"

and

ppsspp = "/opt/retropie/emulators/ppsspp/PPSSPPSDL --escape-exit --fullscreen %ROM%"

and also i try

ppsspp = "/opt/retropie/emulators/ppsspp/PPSSPPSDL --escape-exit %ROM%"

But noting seems to work.
Any other hint that i can do the ESC key to exit?

Edit:
found the soultion it is needed to add

Pause = 1-111

in

/opt/retropie/configs/psp/PSP/SYSTEM/controls.ini

Thanks anyway