Hotkeys Save/Load Game doesn't work.

meleu

@rbaker nul. But I think RetroArch ignores any invalid option. So, null has the same effect as nul (but I'm not sure).

theink

@meleu
I will postpone the testing for the weekend as I don't have much time in the evenings.

But an interesting thing happened to me yesterday, that I want to share.
I have done some fast configuring. I started the Pi and it turned out that my hotkey has stopped functioning.
Retropie detects the right key pressed, but it appeared that the function is nulled. I thought that I f*cked something up and restored my backup.
When I turned it on the hotkey still didn't work. I tested it several times with no result. I gave up and turned off the cabinet from the plug.

This morning I turned it back on and everything worked just fine.
I can not explain this to myself. I'm completely baffled. Even as I write this I wonder if I had imagined it.

From what I know the raspberry pie's only memory is located on the sd card, so I really have no idea how such a thing could be possible.

meleu

@theink keep in mind that despite being all RetroArch each core has its own config file. It can be related to your episode.

theink

@meleu
I finally have some free time to do testing on the configuration.

First question...
I just figured out that I can not have two sets of hotkeys for each player.
For example, if I write the following code the second two lines are canceled by the first two.

input_enable_hotkey = "y"
input_exit_emulator = "h"

input_enable_hotkey = "u"
input_exit_emulator = "j"

What I tried to do is to list two sets of hotkeys for each player. It obviously doesn't work this way.
In short Is there a way to map two sets of hotkeys?

Thanks in advance.

dankcushions

@theink no. in fact, only player 1 has access to hotkeys at all.

meleu

@theink

In short Is there a way to map two sets of hotkeys?

You can map different sets of hotkeys for each controller.

For keyboard the file is the ...all/retroarch.cfg.

For each joystick the files are those ...all/retroarch-joypads/JOYPAD_NAME.cfg files.

And, as @dankcushions said, only player 1 can use hotkeys. But RetroArch recently got a feature to let any player use hotkeys and control RGUI (implemented in this PR). You can use this feature if you update RetroArch from source, and I think it will be available in the next RetroPie release.

theink

@meleu Ok, now I get it. Thank you for clearing this. I will stick to one player hotkey controls.
Another question please.

While editing the main retroarch.cfg file I made a little test.
I switched the functionality of my SELECT button with another button on my control panel and noticed that after a restart the Select key has still has been mapped to its previous position, although that in the cfg file this key has been nulled.

I concluded that the controls for the main menu are not written inside the all/retroarch.cfg.
Is that so? Where can I find them?

meleu

@theink said in Hotkeys Save/Load Game doesn't work.:

While editing the main retroarch.cfg file I made a little test.
I switched the functionality of my SELECT button with another button on my control panel

What do you mean with "control panel"?

I concluded that the controls for the main menu are not written inside the all/retroarch.cfg.

The control configs for the main menu (what we are used to call RGUI) are on those file I mentioned on my last post. It depends on what you are using to control the player1.

theink

@meleu Sorry, by control panel I mean the physical joysticks and buttons installed on the arcade cabinet.
Basically what I did has I reassigned the functionality of the Select button of retroarch to a different keyboard key.
I did that inside the ...all/retroarch.cfg . After that, I restarted the Pi.

What I found is that my newly assigned Select button didn't work.
Instead, the previous key I used continued functioning as Select.

meleu

@theink

What I found is that my newly assigned Select button didn't work.
Instead, the previous key I used continued functioning as Select.

Well, I don't know the details of your IPAC mappings. But the retroarch.cfg doesn't change by itself. :-)

You have to discover what key is bound to what button after your changing and then edit your all/retroarch.cfg.

(P.S.: Is "bound" the past participle of "bind"? I almost wrote binded. :-) still learning English...)

theink

@meleu
HERE is my exact mapping.
The thing is that I had mapped my select button as Y key from the keyboard.
I'm also using the select button as a hotkey.

Then because of a bug that I described HERE, I tried to disable the select button entirely while in RGUI (main menu).
I restarted the P so that I can allow the system to load the config file anew.
As a result, it turned out that the select button is still active.
It still opens my Options menu while in RGui. And then on a second press, the bug takes effect.

But anyway I suggest we move that discussion to the other post because the Hotkey problem has finally has been resolved.
A lot of text has been written, but basically, my mistake was that I was mapping the hotkeys to a controller instead to a keyboard.

meleu

@theink
Just a tip to better describe you issues:
It would be better if you explicitly say what software you are using. ;-) Because GUI can be confused with RGUI (RetroArch GUI).

When you say GUI in your previous post it seems that you refers to the emulationstation, anyway.