[SOLVED] /opt/retropie/configs/all/

[Addison]

Okay, I did this but nothing has changed.

My Y and B buttons are still the only ones that are currently working.

Do I simply need to rename the back-up file and get rid of the (.bak) extension, overwriting the new configuration that it seems to be using?

[meleu]

@Addison are you using config_save_on_exit set to true?
I would suggest you to use that retroarch.cfg.rp-dist you have on your ...configs/all/ directory.

1. rename your current retroarch.cfg to something like retroarch.cfg.bak
2. rename your retroarch.cfg.rp-dist to retroarch.cfg.

and try again.

[Addison]

@meleu

Yeah, I believe so.

I was playing Super Mario Bro.s 1 for NES and wanted to change the B and A buttons to Y and B.

It was something about Configure Controller 1 Options or something like that which I messed around with in the RetroArch menu.

It didn't seem to save my settings so I set the Save on Exit to be True hoping that would fix the issue.

That's all I did.

I'll try your suggestions now.

Thanks!

[Addison]

It didn't work.

The only change was the font size since I had it previously set to 48.

My Y and B are still the only two buttons that are generating input.

[Addison]

Hmm....

Can I just delete the entire "all" folder and then run the Retropie update script, hoping that it re-adds all of these missing files?

[Addison]

I deleted the three files in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/ and it's back to working again.

Sorry for being such a pain in this thread.

[meleu]

@Addison said in /opt/retropie/configs/all/:

I was playing Super Mario Bro.s 1 for NES and wanted to change the B and A buttons to Y and B.

Dude! Don't do it using the Input Binds!! It has the side effect to mess up your hotkeys binds for the NES.

Use what is explained here instead:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration#core-input-remapping

Besides the hotkeys advantage, it has the another huge advantage: you don't need to set config_save_on_exit to true to make it work! ;-)

[meleu]

@Addison said in /opt/retropie/configs/all/:

Sorry for being such a pain in this thread.

I will forgive you. But in return you have to change this thread title to something like "[SOLVED] messed my RetroArch joypad configs"?
:D

Cheers!

[Addison]

Sorry again.

I have a new problem now.

I can no longer change the default emulator for Super Nintendo.

When the screen shows up and says to press a button to edit the default configuration, nothing happens.

I don't understand.

All of my buttons work both in EmulationStation as well as in game.

I would really love to problem solve this by the end of the day here soon.

Oh, and how can I change the title of the thread to [SOLVED] once I get this last issues figured out?

[meleu]

@Addison said in /opt/retropie/configs/all/:

how can I change the title of the thread to [SOLVED] once I get this last issues figured out?

fair enough... let's try to solve it too. But the current title is a little nonsense. :-)

When the screen shows up and says to press a button to edit the default configuration, nothing happens.

Did you change some runcommand config? Maybe "launch menu art"...
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/runcommand#configuring-runcommand

Can you paste here the output of this command?:

cat /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand.cfg

[Addison]

Sure.

I also noticed that if I fire up an Arcade game, and I'm prompted to select a core emulator in the menu, nothing happens on screen, none of my buttons work there either and I'm forced to hard reset my Raspberry.

Here's my current config file:

use_art="0"
disable_joystick="1"
governor=""
disable_menu="0"

[meleu]

WTF!?!?!
LOL

I asked for runcommand.cfg!

edit: please, edit your post and delete all that retroarch.cfg content! ;-)

[Addison]

I am too stupid to live! :o/

[meleu]

@Addison said in /opt/retropie/configs/all/:

When the screen shows up and says to press a button to edit the default configuration, nothing happens.

I remembered another thing that might be causing this: the button to be pressed must be on the first detected joystick on the system, usually the /dev/input/js0. If you are pressing the button on other device, it won't invoke the runcommand menu dialog.

[Addison]

I currently just have one SNES controller connected to my Pie and I don't believe I've ever used a second one with it yet.

[meleu]

@Addison Well, I'm still waiting the output of this command:

cat /opt/retropie/configs/all/runcommand.cfg

runcommand.cfg !!!

:-)

[meleu]

@Addison please, edit that big post and delete all that retroarch.cfg content! ;-)

[Addison]

I changed that long post quite some time ago and replaced it with the runcommand file.

It shows the changes on my end. Sorry.

Anyway, here it is again:

use_art="0"
disable_joystick="1"
governor=""
disable_menu="0"

[meleu]

@Addison didn't updated here... But let's go!

disable_joystick="1"

TADA! Here is the problem!

Read this wiki page:
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/runcommand#configuring-runcommand
and change the "Launch Menu Joystick Control" to "Enabled". ;-)

[BuZz]

There is an issue with the forum that edits are not always visible to other users right away - I will report it upstream when I have a free moment.