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    RetroPie 4.0.2 and dualshock, hotkeys not working

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      bkibalo
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      yes, that is what I'm doing. Then i get frustrated and start smashing all buttons in every combination. It wasn't until i found that jstest utility (by checking on here) that I was 100% confident in the mapping. So that is right. It is just weird. Is there some global hotkey disable feature or something? I did go through everything that had hotkey at all in the retroarch.cfg and #comment it out. I have the enable hotkey stuff just in the controller config.

      One thing I was worried about was the controller config was setup based on the usb-connection. To get the dualshocks working you have to plug them in via usb to pair or something then they go wireless. So I deleted all those configs and started over, same thing.

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        meleu @bkibalo
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        @bkibalo I noticed in your first post that you aren't using the select (button 0) to enable hotkeys. Could you try to put your select as the enable hotkey and then test if the problem persists?

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          bkibalo @meleu
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          @meleu yes I just tried it (input_enable_hotkey_btn = "0") same problem. I originally started with select as the enabler and recently switched to the ps button (16). I setup a pi2 with retropie at my friends house, he bought some amazon controllers (USB) similar in form to a dualshock (although not a clone) and it worked fine with select/start to exit. I didn't do anything special to set that up, indeed it seems like that is the default.

          So, I just tried it with some other emulators and the select/start works. I'm having the above problem in mame. Is there a specific configuration for each emulator (for each controller) as well? I thought it was just the retroarch.cfg then the individual controller.cfgs for the hierarchy.

          Feeling a little better about this - thanks everyone for replying, still looking for answer to this working in mame though.

          ...edit - specifically it worked in SNES emulator

          thanks!
          BK

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            meleu @bkibalo
            last edited by meleu

            @bkibalo every core (RetroArch emulator) has its own config file. The path is /opt/retropie/configs/SYSTEM_NAME/retroarch.cfg.
            Can you put in pastebin.com the content of your mame and snes retroarch.cfg?

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            • dankcushionsD
              dankcushions Global Moderator
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              guess: they're not using a libretro mame core.

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                bkibalo
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                Ok everyone thanks for replies and sorry for not getting back sooner.

                Here are the contents of my mame config (mame-mame4all)

                Settings made here will only override settings in the global retroarch.cfg if placed above the #include line

                input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/mame-mame4all/"

                #include "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg"

                Here are the contents of the snes config file (both files are named retroarch.cfg)

                Settings made here will only override settings in the global retroarch.cfg if placed above the #include line

                input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/snes/"

                #include "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg"

                I'm not seeing anything obvious here, the files are very short (obviously). There are a number of other files, I'll look into those. For example, under snes there is emulators.cfg, retroarch.cfg and snes9x.cfg

                Under the mame4all directory there are emulators.cfg, mame.cfg and retroarch.cfg

                Upon further testing, the hotkeys also work in N64 emulator; I haven't tried any others just yet.

                thanks again!

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                  meleu @bkibalo
                  last edited by meleu

                  @bkibalo Please use markdown to format your posts - see http://commonmark.org/help/

                  can you confirm: the hotkeys works on SNES and don't in mame.

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                    Spectreman @bkibalo
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                    @bkibalo I had this problems with a generic controller, after toying with the configuration. For me, was easier just to delete the configs files (by Windows Explorer) and reboot the system.

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                      bkibalo @meleu
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                      @meleu yes the hotkeys work in SNES and n64 (not sure about other emulators) but do not work at all in MAME. For MAME I have to unplug power or plug in a keyboard and hit ESC to back out of games. Keyboard is non-ideal due to the plugged in accessory. The best part about the dual shock controllers is having the wireless capability. Thanks!

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                        bkibalo
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                        Hey guys - another update. I got some time to mess around tonight with the system. I copied all my roms to the liberato mame directory and the hotkeys work. So without testing every single emulator out right now, it seems like the problem is isolated to the mame4all emulator. Hope this helps!

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                        • BuZzB
                          BuZz administrators
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                          The standalone mame4all emulator doesn't use hotkeys. The hotkeys are for the libretro emulator cores. There is a libretro mame4all though and lr-mame2003 core you can use

                          To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                            bkibalo @BuZz
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                            @BuZz I guess that is the answer then. I think @dankcushions brought this up earlier too. Thanks for your help everyone!

                            Any idea why there are 4 to 6 mame cores offered? Now I have something else to look into :)

                            thanks again!

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                              meleu @bkibalo
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                              @bkibalo this post has useful MAME info:
                              https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2859/how-to-use-mame-with-retropie-help-guide

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