Hotkey stops working unless I select "Resume"

[yewox50273]

Hi all,

I did an "update all packages" like 2 weeks ago or so, and ever since I'm having problem with the hotkey.

Basically the title says it all. I do hotkey + Y to bring up the Retroarch menu, and I must select "Resume" to get out of it. If I do hotkey + Y again like I used to do to get back to game then the hotkey becomes disabled, I can't get bring up Retroarch again nor get out of the game via hotkey + start.

I'm seeing this in all cores, so seems to me a Retroarch problem?

[mitu]

I don't see this issue - the hotkey for opening the menu (default being Hotkey + X) is also closing it, just like before. RetroArch has been updated recently (a few weeks) to v1.12.0, so something changed, but I don't think the hotkey enabled operations have been affected.
What version of RetroArch you had before the update ? What system/platform ? Please add some more details, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

[yewox50273]

@mitu anyway to tell what RA was before? since "update all packages" doesn't really put out big text like "updating from version x.y.z to a.b.c".

[INFO] RetroArch 1.12.0 (Git d6deee4)
[INFO] === Build =======================================
[INFO] CPU Model Name: ARMv7 Processor rev 3 (v7l)

[INFO] Capabilities:  NEON VFPv3 VFPv4
[INFO] Built: Nov 15 2022
[INFO] Version: 1.12.0
[INFO] Git: d6deee4
[INFO] =================================================

Opening and closing it for the 1st time there's no problem. The problem I'm seeing is opening it again, without getting out of the previous one using "resume".

What system/platform ?

As mentioned, all cores. That's why I'm thinking something to do with RA.

I'm using Pi4, and this is the same SD card I been using for more than a year, just keep on doing "update all packages" so RetroPie version wise etc it's really just whatever the latest. I don't think "power supply used" matters.

Yes I'm aware RA was recently updated, that's why I'm thinking something to do with RA.

I even tried to re-setup the controllers, no difference.

[yewox50273]

Completely rebuild Retropie on another SD and did "update all packages"...and no problem there.

It's going to be some hunting of what residual config value in my previous SD card is causing this...

[yewox50273]

Looks like the all_users_control_menu option is causing this.

Once I removed that from /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg it's fine for me again.

While doing all this I also found out player 2 can't use the hotkey at all, so can't bring up RA, reset etc. Is that a new behavior?

[mitu]

@yewox50273 said in Hotkey stops working unless I select "Resume":

While doing all this I also found out player 2 can't use the hotkey at all, so can't bring up RA, reset etc. Is that a new behavior?

No, it's always been like this.

[yewox50273]

So I don't have menu_disable_search_button = "true" in my old retroarch.cfg like in the newer image, so if I add that, meaning:

all_users_control_menu = "true"
menu_disable_search_button = "true"

then I don't have the problem as well.

[yewox50273]

Confirmed. If i do

# menu_disable_search_button = "true"

on my freshly-built + updated-all-packages Retropie, then the problem appears.

So this might be a migration issue, given menu_disable_search_button might not exist in old retroarch.cfg.

[mitu]

@yewox50273 said in Hotkey stops working unless I select "Resume":

So this might be a migration issue, given menu_disable_search_button might not exist in old retroarch.cfg.

It doesn't, since it's a relatively 'new' option. However, the update script should add this to the config automatically - unless you forgot to update RetroPie-Setup or your configuration is non-standard or already had it set.

[yewox50273]

thx @mitu , I think that explains it.

Retropie-Setup must have updated my retroarch.cfg when I update-all-packages, but I likely copied an "old reliable" one over from somewhere else and erased the new changes.

However I'd imagine that's still an unintended consequence when menu_disable_search_buttonis set to false?