I Can't Escape Games

mitu

@CtotheVizza That means the .cfg file in the RetroArch auto-config folder has not been created and RetroArch doesn't know how about your controller.
Is the file you posted earlier present in that folder ?

CtotheVizza

@mitu Yikes! No. There's nothing in that folder.

mitu

Try to configure the 1st controller again in Emulatiostation and see if any .cfg file appears in that folder.

CtotheVizza

@mitu Trying that now- thanks a bunch for your help!

CtotheVizza

@mitu Okay- I have gone into retroarch and re-configured the joysticks, saved the auto and retroarch configs, and tested it out. Now the joystick and all the buttons are programmable in MAME, and I can escape games by using the keyboard but still no hotkey/select + start escape available in MAME and no way to bail out in any other type of emulator. I do now have a file in autoconfig and it looks like so:

input_driver = "sd1"
input_device = "DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystick "
input_vendor_id = "121"
input_product_id = "6"
input_b_btn = "2"
input_y_btn = "3"
input_select_btn = "8"
input_start_btn = "9"
input_up_axis = "-1"
input_down_axis = "+1"
input_left_axis = "-0"
input_right_axis = "+0"
input_a_btn = "0"
input_x_btn = "1"
input_l_btn = "4"
input_r_btn = "5"

CtotheVizza

it's missing this, isn't it?:

input_enable_hotkey_btn = 8
input_exit_emulator_btn = 9

CtotheVizza

ADDED:

input_enable_hotkey_btn = "8"
input_exit_emulator_btn = "9"

same results.

mitu

@CtotheVizza said in I Can't Escape Games:

input_enable_hotkey_btn = 8
input_exit_emulator_btn = 9

Yes, that's added by Emulationstation's scripts. It's also missing the shortcuts for Load/Save/Next/Prev Save state, but you can add them manually - following the mappings in https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/#default-joypad-hotkeys.

CtotheVizza

@mitu I think I got it! There was an odd line in /all/retroarch.cfg that was turning the controllers off or something. Anyway, I can escape the games with hot keys again. At least I can get the side buttons to work in arcade/mame games as well. Thanks for your help and for this site as well! I read that controller page about 100 times and it finally sank in enough to get this working right!

MyFartSoTart

@CtotheVizza I know this is an old thread but I’m having the same issue, I saw a line in retroarch.cfg that said something like “input_hotkey_enable = nul”. Do you remember If that’s the line you changed?

mitu

@MyFartSoTart Please don't bump old topics - open a new topic and explain your issue, adding the info about your setup as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.