(solved) Upgraded to latest retropie (fresh install), retroarch not functional?

tjsgaming

Linux veteran, been using retropie for about 2 years.
Just did a fresh install of the latest retropie off the official image. Had been using, I think, 4.0 or 3.8 before this.

It seems that the retroarch functionality is no longer working. Once I load a rom, I can no longer hit Select + X to bring up the retroarch menu, nor can I quit a game with Start + Select anymore. I use a wired PS2 controller via a USB adaptor, everything else is working fine, buttons map properly and all that. This is a bit of a show-stopper problem, obviously, and a bit of a let down since the entire reason I'm trying the latest version was to try and get fastforward/rewind working (I kept running into issues trying to save the config after setting it up in my old install, gave up after 16+ hours trying to make it work).

I can't find any info about this glancing around the forums or with google, has some default changed somewhere?

mitu

@tjsgaming Give us more details about your system - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
You probably have a different Hotkey mapped instead of the Select button, I would advice to remove any controller mappings and re-configure your gamepad again in Emulationstation. During the configuration, don't choose a Hotkey button when asked and then choose the Select button as Hotkey when asked to do so at the end.

tjsgaming

Yep, ended up being a controller mapping issue.

If anyone else has this problem or something substantially similar, the eventual steps I had to rectify it was :

have USB gamepad plugged in and configured and all that

Unplug it

ssh into the pi from a PC/terminal/whatever - get a command prompt

manually delete the gamepad mapping with the rm command, apologies I dont remember what the exact path was

power down the pi

plug in USB gamepad

Power-up the pi, follow the on-screen gamepad setup

I don't know why, but somehow in the process of remapping my gamepad a couple of times, it seemed to 'forget' the mapping for my 'hotkey' (select button for me) and wouldn't restore it. Something kept removing or perhaps over-writing the setting. Manually deleting the config from the command line solved the problem.

robertvb83

@tjsgaming there is an easier way for this :-)
just press start in ES and go to input options --> configure input
it will start the input assistant for your chosen joypad.

Sorry that this help comes too late for you but maybe it will help others. I know things are often a pain in the a... if you don't know the "right" way to do things... I spent countless hours on such myself

tjsgaming

I tried to reconfigure from within retropie, and for some reason the changes weren't holding correctly. I suspect it was probably permissions related, though I'm not sure how the permissions on the .cfg could have gotten messed up.