@markyh444 Okay. Mitu gave me a starting point to work from so I will take his advice and go from there. If I need further assistance I'll be sure to take the time to collect the necessary information first. Thanks for your responses.

@Dj-EKI If you'd like that combo to open the menu, then open RetroArch from the RetroPie system in EmulationStation, set the option and then save your configuration.
To leave a game, you'll have to use either a Hotkey + Start - which you don't want - or disable the Hotkey and choose another button for the exit hotkey. Pressing that button will automatically exit the game.

You can add the combo to the main config file in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg (this will set it to L+R).

input_menu_toggle_gamepad_combo = "6"

@Clyde Thanks. And for anyone following up this question I was easily able to add audio volume control (via hotkey + D-pad up/down) to the config file mentioned earlier. Like this: input_volume_up_axis = ”” inside the quotation marks I copied the number for the up axis, which was -1 in my config file.

@mitu The rewind feature seems to work well in SNES, NES, and MD and with this setup that is 99.9% of what I play so I think I'm good.

As for the controller issue I have tried a few pre-made images and I haven't experienced this setup issue. I have re-downloaded this official image, flashed it, and tried it again and I get the same results so not sure if it is this latest release or what, so I don't know if it is a bug. I would reflash and try with a clean install and with some of the controllers I had, one from 8-bitdo, retro-bit, retroflag, and then the ones that came with my PS1 Classic all with the same results; The retroarch controller file isn't being written correctly. When setup in emulation station it works correctly in those menus but when I enter an emulator all the buttons don't work. I need to go into retroarch and set it up there like I said in my previous post.

I guess if no one reports this it is just me with the setup I have but mine is pretty standard: The official image I download from here, raspberry 3b+, retroflag NES case, and every controller I have. Maybe it is the pi I have? Anyway, I have it working now but when the next release comes out I will give it a try and see if it sorts out my problems.

Thanks for the help though! Besides this little problem I got everything I wanted from the official image and it works great.

Just bumping my post. Still not sure what to do about the hotkey situation.

@mitu
I don't have triggerhappy on a Playstation Classic, but it is linux and has a systemd.

There is with "Network Command interface" also "Command interface" support but I don't know how to use this, I guess maybe echo a command at the process?

@mitu I will definitely look into this. Thanks!

OK thanks for your answers i will try :)

@eklynx It's not possible to selectively enable the hotkey for certain commands. It's a global selection - it's either enabled (and it's used for all hotkey shortcuts) or not (and the hotkey shortcuts execute without it).

I remember a similar post - after the 4.4 image was released - mentioning that DInput behaves differently and switching to XInput made it work.

@quicksilver

Okay, so a bug.
I would never have thought of it by myself.

Thank you very much.

My advice is to not use 'Save on Exit' and use Core/Game overrides for changes you want to add to the controls. If you want to have a global configuration setting applied to all Libretro cores, open RetroArch from the RetroPie system in Emulationstation, make your changes there (it will modify the global RetroArch config file) and use Save Configuration to save those changes. More details about the configuration structure used by RetroArch in RetroPie can be found here.

@cyperghost said in [Solved] How to bind a shell command to a hotkey? (raspi2png):

I'm the (proud??) owner of such a device but I prefer the Pie

What I meant - since you have one - maybe you can find an equivalent program to raspi2png for the Droid and be able to test it (not create one from scratch). Something like fbgrab or fbdump maybe.

never mind, i fixed it! thanks for help @mitu!!! really appreciate it

@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!

@mitu Got it. Thanks for the answer. I guess I wish it were a bit more flexible but I'll go with the hot key enabled then.

This actually helped:

1 year ago
OK I figured it out. I had to set the hotkeys manually rather than rely on the autoconfig.
For anyone else out there with this issue, what you need to do is open the RetroPie menu. Open RetroArch.
Go to Settings>Input>Input Hotkey Binds.
Go down to Quit RetroArch, and set that to your Start button.
Next go down to Enable hotkeys, and set that to your Select button.
Go back up to the Main Menu within RetroArch.
Open Configurations.
Save Current Config.
Back out and exit RetroArch.
You're good to go now for most emulators.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/5t44qq/unable_to_exit_emulators_help/