@draksus said in Boomer friendly way to exit games using a n64 controller?:

Is there a way to have the pause button function in game AND be the hotkey?

Probably yes.

Its ok if a shortpress brings up ES menu, a medium press brings up RA menu.

That's not how it works. Once a game is started, ES is no longer active and you can't open its menu(s) anymore, you'll have to exit the emulator before ES becomes active again.

If you're only interested in N64 (or maybe just in a couple of systems), you can run RetroArch directly - without EmulationStation acting as a front-end. See Lakka for a similar gaming distro that has just RetroArch running.

@jell no. You can change video mode - and if your TV can switch based on that, then maybe. But the rpi can't specifically control various TV model settings.

Hello fellows.

I would like to say thanks! The cec-utils package is pretty handy. The udev rules are perfect!

The only addition I've made on my arcade build was adding a turn off monitor.sh script in RetroPie Menu.

#!/bin/bash # turn off monitor.sh ################# # Actually puts the monitor on stand by mode. echo standby 0 | cec-utils -s -d 1

I never tried that kind of remotes, but it should work. Did you configured the remote like explained here ?
https://support.myharmony.com/en-in/harmony-experience-with-kodi
or here ?
http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/Config_harmony