Help With 2 Simple Menu Configurations Please

[bp]

I have searched and searched for how to change these 2 configuration settings. I don't know what to call them, so I am probably searching for the wrong thing, and I apologize for not finding the answers if they are there:

(1) When you start a game in emulation Station, it gives you a brief prompt that says "press any key to access settings" before it opens the emulator. Can you please tell me how to customize the input to be a button hold or designated key? I have a young nephew that button mashes and is always opening the settings when he starts a game. If there is a retroarch setting I can turn off and on to hide that prompt, that would work too.

(2) I have several friends that have an "Exit" button on their cabinet that closes the active emulator with one keyboard button press (i.e., you don't need to also press the hotkey button to close the emulator, you just press the exit button). I can't figure out how to configure that to work. My Exit button is configured to output the escape key, and I have close emulator mapped to ESC, I just want the Exit button to work by itself.

Alternatively, is there a way to map 2 different keys to the "Start" function? I was thinking that if I could map both the start button and exit button to the start function (i.e., they both act like start buttons), I could use the hold start for 2 seconds to make the exit button allow you to exit.

Thanks in advance!

[YFZdude]

@bp

(1) When you start a game in emulation Station, it gives you a brief prompt that says "press any key to access settings" before it opens the emulator. Can you please tell me how to customize the input to be a button hold or designated key?

This is called the runcommand menu.
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/

It can be disabled to prevent accidental configuration changes.

(2) I have several friends that have an "Exit" button on their cabinet that closes the active emulator with one keyboard button press (i.e., you don't need to also press the hotkey button to close the emulator, you just press the exit button).

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/#hotkeys

In order for this to work without holding down a hotkey in addition to the exit button, you can either not input a hotkey button during controller configuration, or delete it from the controller config file.
But be warned that other default hotkey combos will also become single button presses. So for instance pressing the mapped "B" button will reset your game/emulator. To prevent this you also have to remove the hotkey inputs from the controller config file.
To do this, you will need to edit the <controllername.cfg> file in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/autoconfig and edit entries like:

input_state_slot_decrease_btn = 
input_state_slot_increase_btn = 
input_save_state_btn = 
input_load_state_btn = 
input_menu_toggle = 
input_reset_btn = 

so that they do not have a button listed after them. Or assign them to their own dedicated keys that you don't use during gameplay.

[mitu]

@YFZdude said in Help With 2 Simple Menu Configurations Please:

In order for this to work without holding down a hotkey in addition to the exit button, you can either not input a hotkey button during controller configuration, or delete it from the controller config file.
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Actually, in the latest versions of RetroArch the hotkey enable is handled on a per-input device basis, so it's possible to have a controller + hotkey enable configured and separately a keyboard that works without a hotkey and Esc would still work to exit RetroArch. But, since no details about the setup were provided, I don't know if this configuration would be possible and @YFZdude suggestion would still work regardless of the type(s) of input present.

[bp]

@YFZdude you rock, thank you!