Changing two buttons in the retroarch.cfg will not work

[top-specci]

Hi,
I try to change two buttons (X with the Y button) in the retroarch.cfg file, but it will not work, the change take not effect.

I copy the file to Windows, change the enty, copy the file back, restart Emulationstation but still the old layout seems to work.
I restart whole RaspberryPie, same (no change from the buttons)

These are the lines, from /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg :

...
input_player1_x = "a"
input_player1_x_axis = "nul"
input_player1_x_btn = "nul"
input_player1_x_mbtn = "nul"
...
input_player1_y = "s"
input_player1_y_axis = "nul"
input_player1_y_btn = "nul"
input_player1_y_mbtn = "nul"

Is there a misunderstanding or a mistake from my side,
I thought Retropie Emulators will take these informations for button layout ...

I have no Emulator specific key-configs in the subfolders!

Only standard entries are there, here .i.e. in mame-libretro:

# Settings made here will only override settings in the global retroarch.cfg if placed above the #include line
input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/"
# video_smooth = ""
# video_shader_enable = ""
input_overlay_enable = "true"
#include "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg"

[mitu]

You're changing the button mapping for a keyboard type input - if you expect that buttons on the gamepad to work differently, then this is why they're not.

[top-specci]

@mitu Ok, uppps...

And where can I find the layout configuration file from the phy. buttons I have defined?

thx!

[mitu]

If you want to remap the buttons, then use the Core Input Remapping menu in the RGUI - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/#core-input-remapping. No need to edit files and re-configure the controllers globally.

[top-specci]

@mitu Ok, I will check this.

But in my case, I just want to switch 2 Buttons globally, is there no "simple" config file I can edit and change two lines ?

Same as I reconfigure the joystick new (in principle I want to prevent this step, so my posting here)

[mitu]

Your gamepad is configured in \\retropie\configs\all\retroarch-joypads, it has its own configuration file. You can change it there, but it's not so straightforward since the mappings are just some numbers.

EDIT: you get the same result if you re-map your input in Emulationstation.

[top-specci]

Thanks, this was the file I'm looking for ...