On Nintendo 64: hotkeys that use Select or X

[eje211]

I got my Nintendo 64 controller working. (N64 uses a different controller than all the other emulators because it's the only emulator I use that needs analog.) But now, what about hotkeys?

The most useful hotkey is Start + Select. It lets you close the emulator. But Nintendo 64 does not have a Select button. I tried adding one in n64/InputAutoCfg.nin, but, predictably, it was ignored. I can map exit to an unused controller button, but I'm afraid someone might press it by accident. The other hotkey I'd like to have mapped is Select + X for the RGUI menu. But the N64 controller does not have a Select OR an X. What should I do? Can manually set hotkeys with my own combination of buttons? I have not found a way to do that yet.

[wetriner]

Hotkeys work by default for most users in n64. But you must specify which one you're interested in. lr-mupen64plus is just like any other libretro emulator and doesn't really care about the n64 controller shape. All the typical hotkeys should work the same as if you were in SNES. Since retroarch uses button values and not button labels for hotkeys.

In the case of mupen64plus, you have to realize that the only hotkeys most people use are save state, load state, and joy mapping stop(exit). There are other options, but there is no retroarch GUI for this emulator, so select+X is pointless. All of these are found in mupen64plus.cfg. InputAutoCfg.ini is only for in-game controls. Now if for some reason it's not setting up hotkeys properly by default(happens mostly to xboxdrv i think), you can disable the auto script. It's located in autoconf.cfg. Just set mupen64plus_hotkeys to 0. From there you'll be able to set up you hotkeys for good in mupen64plus.cfg without being overwritten. Autoconf.cfg can also be accessed through the configuration editor.

The format for joypad hotkeys in mupen64plus.cfg is like this J(Joypad Index)B(First Button Value)/B(Second Button Value). So pretty typically it looks like Joy Mapping Stop = "J0B8/B9". You can do multiple controllers by just adding a comma and typing out another definition in the quotes. You can do a single button press hotkey by omitting the second half of the string, /B#.