This is occured infrequently and is likely some little bug. I've had it happen only 3 times and 2 were the first two times i was in the desktop and explorer. Only happened once in the last 40 or so times since. lol.

@windg Nope, it was the first I tried. I tried also Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-Q, F10, Alt itself to see if a menu appears... Nothing worked, otherwise I wouldn't ask.

@Robinson You don't need a bios for 2600, see : https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Atari-2600/

@mitu I found solution, i just deleted previous settings and i mapped to Home button to exit. You can close this topic.

You can try reconfiguring your controller in EmulationStation; this should rewrite the RetroArch autoconfig including the hotkey-enable function. If that doesn't work, however...

@retroprestoz said in Start button exits games without pressing select as well.:

A buddy of mine just put it together for me to use some I'm not exactly sure what he did or all of the config files and stuff.

Unfortunately, neither are we.

It is not practical to troubleshoot a system that neither you nor we have any idea how is configured. For that reason, third-party builds are not supported in any capacity.

Start here: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/#installation

I suggest you to backup your roms and configs, and then install the current latest official image for your hardware from https://retropie.org.uk/download.

Restore your backed-up roms but not the configs yet -- you can cherry-pick them later but if you blindly copy them all, the one that's causing your issue will come along with the rest of them.

You can use a similar solution to the one in this post, where the requirement was to have the Pause function being triggered without a hotkey.

@azurden it’s trivial to acquire mame roms of a certain version, but we can’t assist as per the rules. do not try and find roms and then determine their version after the fact - hundreds of mame rom versions so it will almost certainly be wrong. find the version you need.

I use the hotkeys for my retropie on tv...but for the arcade I find it much friendly without. When I need hotkey I just grab the wireless keyboard. The volume switch is already on the cabinet I’m using.

I have also notice on the new retropie image on retroarch hot key binds they added a double tap of the exit. Not sure if code on that can be adjusted as a hard press instead?

@Halvhjearne it needs a window in order to configure the mappings.

@WishItWas1984 I can completely respect the desire for ultimate nostalgia. I personally love the nostalgia but I have made some concessions for some modernization. At the end of the day as long as you can make it serve your purpose and you're go happy, game on!

Well it seems to be working OK so I have no complaints. :-) Naturally, if you have a better way of doing this now we'd all love to see it! ;-)

Thanks for the help. :-)

Got it. You have to go to the individual emulator retroarch.cfg file. This is what mine looks like now for atari2600 and it works.

# Settings made here will only override settings in the global retroarch.cfg if placed above the includes. input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/atari2600/" input_enable_hotkey = "escape" input_exit_emulator = "escape" #include "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg"

References:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3665/exit-every-emulator-with-escape-key
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration

There is no 'SNES RGUI', the RGUI is the same for all libretro cores. Please read the page about the RetroArch configuration and how it works. You can configure your RetroPad (virtual RetroArch gamepad) per core as you wish, without influencing how RGUI interprets the buttons used to operate it (A/B/L/R).

@Cybrasty It worked! I followed the info in the post from @caver01 and it worked like a charm. Hotkeys disabled, and I now have a dedicated EXIT button that gets me out of games in advmame1.4, mame2003, and PSX.

@dojobaggins OK, so you might have had an older release where there was no 'Hotkey' button present in the input configuration dialog and Start + Select was automatically set. This is what you can do

configure you controller again in Emulationstation when you get the Hotkey selection, just long press the A button to skip it, then save the configuration (press A). there will be a prompt asking you if you want to use the Select button as a Hotkey, since you didn't assign a button to it. Choose yes here.
Now the Hotkey will be mapped to Select and you'll be able to use the same exit shortcut as before.

Hi, mitu. Thank you very much for the reply. This is what I was looking for.