Hotkey immediately exits emulator

T1nue

Today I updated Retropie; Emulationstation shows the version "2.7.6RP".

After the update, the hotkey button immediately exits the emulator (lr-mame2003 for example). Correct would be hotkey+Start to exit, as far as I remember.

Since the hotkey is assigned by default to the "Select" button, and "Select" by default is the "Coin" button, I can't do anything in Mame anymore.

To make sure that I dod not break anything, I uninstalled and reinstalled Retropie, without effect.

When I grep for "input_exit" in "/opt/retropie", I only find one entry:

configs/all/retroarch.cfg:input_exit_emulator = "i"

The "i" key is indeed the "Start" button.

Grepping for "hotkey" returns this:

configs/all/retroarch.cfg:input_enable_hotkey = "o"

This look ok, the "o" key is "Select".

What is wrong here? Thanks for any insight.

T1nue

Sorry, this might be a red herring. Pressing the "Coin" button does exit the game, but maybe not because it is acting as an "exit" button. The log file shows this, right after I press the "Coin" button:

[INFO] [recording] Custom timing given: FPS: 60.6061, Sample rate: 48000.0000
[INFO] [recording] Recording to frogger-190111-150300.mkv @ 224x256. (FB size: 256x256 pix_fmt: 0)
[libx264rgb @ 0x1c71290] using SAR=6/7
[libx264rgb @ 0x1c71290] using cpu capabilities: ARMv6 NEON
[libx264rgb @ 0x1c71290] profile High 4:4:4 Predictive, level 2.1, 4:4:4 8-bit
[libx264rgb @ 0x1c71290] 264 - core 148 r2748 97eaef2 - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2003-2016 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: cabac=1 ref=6 deblock=1:1:1 analyse=0x1:0x111 me=hex subme=7 psy=0 mixed_ref=1 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=0 8x8dct=1 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=0 chroma_qp_offset=0 threads=1 lookahead_threads=1 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=0 weightp=2 keyint=250 keyint_min=25 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc=cqp mbtree=0 qp=0
[INFO] [FFmpeg]: Using sample format S16.
[matroska @ 0x1c6c900] Using AVStream.codec to pass codec parameters to muxers is deprecated, use AVStream.codecpar instead.
[matroska @ 0x1c6c900] Using AVStream.codec to pass codec parameters to muxers is deprecated, use AVStream.codecpar instead.
[INFO] Starting movie record to "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/frogger.srm.bsv".
/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1007:  2915 Segmentation fault      /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mame2003/mame2003_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/arcade/frogger.zip" --verbose --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg

This happens with every rom. It worked fine before I updated Retropie today.
It appears as if it tries to record the screen, but fails. Of course I did not configure anything related to screen recording.

T1nue

Got it... This post guided me into the right direction: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/18183/recording-gameplay-in-retropie-4-4-1

It appears that the latest 4.4.1 version enabled screen recording. It's just bad luck that the default toggle button is "o", which is also the "Select" button on the Pimoroni Picade X HAT accessory.

Further bad luck is that the screen recording causes a segmentation fault. I wonder why this was enabled in Retropie 4.4.1 if it does not work? At least for the Raspberry Pi it should not be active, I think.

I could fix the problem by uncommenting "input_movie_record_toggle" and setting the key to a value that does not exist on the Pimoroni controller. I did this in "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg".

Run the Jewels

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Run the Jewels

@T1nue Hi man, have the same problem!
Can you help me about this? For me is not simple to proceed.
I have the same problem... left button "screen recording". right button goes out from game.

Please help me.
Tnx!

T1nue

@Run-the-Jewels If you have the Pimoroni controller (X Hat) then you should do what I did, see above. Some additional information is on the Pimoroni forums, see https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/x-hat-retropie-coin-button-exits-game/9633.

If you have another controller, then this might not be the same problem. If this is the case, then I suggest you start a new thread, with detailed descriptions of your hardware, software versions, log file entries etc.