Game specific input settings

mitu

If you press left/right, the 3 dashes will turn into one of the RetroPad's controls, cycling between them.

Melvin.FoX

@mitu nope, they does not. Nothing happens at all. It works only in Settings -> Input -> Port 1 Binds but that does not let me easily set game specific settings and I also guess that it will mess up how RetroArch reacts (e.g. Exit combination might change).

mitu

@melvin-fox said in Game specific input settings:

It works only in Settings -> Input -> Port 1 Binds ...

That's not the place to change per-game settings. From the aforementioned doc page:

Start a game of the system you want to remap the buttons

Invoke RGUI (Hotkey+X with player 1)

Go to Quick Menu and then Controls

Configure the buttons the way you want

Select Save Core Remap File

OR, if you want to save this remapping for the current game only, select Save Game Remap File

Melvin.FoX

@mitu and that's exactly what I cannot achieve.

mitu

Care to explain more ? You say you're not able to change the controls - is that it ? Or you're not able to save it per-game ?

Melvin.FoX

@mitu

It should help to make things a bit clearer :)

mitu

@melvin-fox Looks like some MAME 2016 weirdness. Have you tried using the MAME input menu (via Tab) ?

Melvin.FoX

@mitu you are right, with FBNeo it works just fine :/
I found this thread:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/26101/solved-can-t-alter-mame-2015-2016-controls
and it seems that .rmp file might corrupt it but the problem is that in /opt/retropie/configs/arcade there is no rmp file related to mame2016.

mitu

More likely a Mame2016 core bug - https://github.com/libretro/mame2016-libretro/issues/36.

Melvin.FoX

@mitu I don’t fully get it -someone submitted a fix on March 8 but it’s still not implemented to repo?!
Update: I just compiled lr-Mame2015 and it acts the very same.

mitu

@melvin-fox No, it looks like someone submitted a bug report, with the intention of also submitting also fix, but I don't think the fix was added, since the bug report was not closed.

Melvin.FoX

@mitu with Mame2016 I fully understand it but I have the same thing happening with Mame2015 which does not have this bug reported but still - it behaves the very same way.

dankcushions

@melvin-fox 2015 and 16 are likely the same libretro backend.

is there any particular reason you're using 15/16 rather than lr-mame (or my preference, standalone mame)?

Melvin.FoX

@dankcushions it’s about performance. On 2016 I can play eg. Die Hard Arcade with minimal slowdowns during QTE but overall game is pretty playable. With current mame it works in around 10 fps. Apart from that I have Mame2016 romset and don’t need to find another source for that.