Fast Forward Toggle - how to disable or assign it to another key?

[peejster]

I installed Retropie on my Raspberry Pi 2. I got the image from the Retropie website: retropie-4.5.1-rpi2_rpi3. I haven't made any configuration changes. The only thing I have done thus far is setup my controller (keyboard) and copied over some MAME roms (for the mame-libretro emulator). For the controller configuration, I setup the space bar as the "select" button and I also setup the space bar as the "hotkey" as suggested on the getting started page.

The problem I have is that whenever the select button / space bar is pressed while a game is loaded, the game goes into Fast Forward mode. Fast forward mode does toggle off when I press the space bar again. I use the space bar to add a credit to the game so that I can play. This means that whenever I want to credit a game to play, the game goes into fast forward mode.

Is this the expected behavior out of the box? My preference would be to assign fast forward mode toggle to another key or to turn it off completely. I checked documentation on the retropie site for the MAME emulator and couldn't find any settings / configurations detailed for Fast Forward mode. I also couldn't find an option in the MAME internal menu. I assume that there is config file some where for this setting.

Alternatively, I suppose I can set the games to free play via the service menu so that I don't have to credit each game with the select button. But, then again, this wouldn't help if someone accidently pressed the select button during game play.

Can someone point me to the configuration file for Fast Forward and how to turn it off?

Thanks
PJ

[peejster]

I just did another search (using my fast forward' tag) and found a thread I hadn't seen before. It did reference the specific settings in the retroarch.cfg file.

Toggles between fast-forwarding and normal speed.

input_toggle_fast_forward = nul

Hold for fast-forward. Releasing button disables fast-forward.

input_hold_fast_forward = nul

The question I still have is where to find the "Global" retroarch.cfg file. I read the documentation on Retroarch where it lists the default retroarch.cfg file but it doesn't specify where the file is located.

[mitu]

@peejster said in Fast Forward Toggle - how to disable or assign it to another key?:

The question I still have is where to find the "Global" retroarch.cfg file. I read the documentation on Retroarch where it lists the default retroarch.cfg file but it doesn't specify where the file is located.

It's in /opt/retropie/configs/all/ or - via file shares - at \\retropie\configs\all.

[peejster]

Perfect. I never would have found it.

I set the to fast forward parameters to null. It's working as I would like now.

Thanks!