@nevsan said in How do I find out and change the Retroarch Hotkeys for each system?:

Hotkey for enabling RETROARCH when in a game.

there is no such hotkey. there's only one hotkey - it's set during https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/First-Installation#configure-controllers - it's the last one to be set. typically you'd set it to the 'select' button on your controller.

then, you access various hotkey combos by holding your hotkey and pressing some other button. eg: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/First-Installation#hotkeys

if you configure it this way, the same combo will work in every libretro (lr-) emulator.

@40wattrange

Unfortunately, you can only remove it globally. It would work for what you want, but the rest of the hotkey combos would be affected. For example, pressing 'start' by itself would always exit a game.

@scopaust As with other controller that don't have a hotkey, you can use Select instead of a hotkey.

@matchaman if you use lr-nestopia you only use one button. L1. And you can map it to select. Select will still work the same. If you are in actual gameplay and you hit select it does not eject+ flip while you are in game. But if you say hit select once in gameplay when you get to the flip disk screen it will give you a disk side error. All you have to do is press the select button one time and it will correct itself. If in game you hit the select button an even number of times like 2x, 4x, etc... it wont give you the error. Not a big deal when you do get the error as you only flip a disk once or so while playing so you lose maybe a second of time. Again you need to switch to lr-nestopia as this does not work in lr-fceumm

I had this issue in N64 and all it took was a reboot to fix it. If I can remember what the issue was I will post it to see if it's related or not.

@polish-potato See this topic https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11837/disable-retroarch-joystick-reset-hotkey/5

@mitu perfect, seems easy enough!
Thanks for your help!

@oloff3 You could try something like:

input_volume_up = +<button value> input_volume_down = -<button value>

or another approach is described here https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2377/control-volume-through-retroarch-with-keyboard/4, outside of RetroArch. The example in the topic is more for the keyboard use, but if you can make the events appear as keypresses, the principle is the same.

@mitu I am playing Street Fighter III : 3rd Strike(fb alpha)this ROM does not have a chd but I was trying another rom that used a chd and after I deleted some chd's the ROM got from glitchy to a black background.

@ben-almonte Update to retropie 4.3. Reconfigure your controller. The last button to configure is the hotkey, so you can assign that to something other than select.

@jonnykesh After Doing the Input Stuff again, it worked. Fucking weird, tried if before multiple times. Well, it works now so i wont complain.

@dankcushions said in Better way to change hot key bindings for multiple systems?:

@dinierto that's the correct solution, so i can only guess that there's something in a retroarch.cfg somewhere that's conflicting.

That's my only guess too but I don't know enough about that specific issue

And now I'm happy to tell you all, that it worked! Thanks for the author of that video as well, really helpful guide for all of us. And also thank for everyone helping over here, help, friendly opinions and good points is always needed. :)

Interestingly, the controller won't work properly, until you press the Analog-button and lid up the red light, after you're started/rebooted the console. But that doesn't matter, as it kinda works like a On/Off switch for the controller.

@SanyaIV said in Run custom action on custom hotkey?:

What I want to do: ADD a hotkey that does a CUSTOM action.
The hotkey: DualShock 4 contoller [Share] + [PS Button]
The action: Run a script (The script will toggle vcgencmd display_power 0 and vcgencmd display_power 1)

Hi Sanya,

Maybe you could achieve what you want by using Triggerhappy with configurations like here?:
https://github.com/Vegz78/retro2png#configuring-the-gamepad-and-keyboard-hotkeys

Br,
Vegard

@rgnmud

A nice kid-friendly prevention.

Well, the main problem has been solved.

User error was the problem, (as expected). The thing that broke the dam was figuring out that the input_..._btn entries were for the controls vs. input_...(no _btn) entries. When I looked closer, I figured out I didn't have a complete set of hotkey inputs for the keyboard or the controller in the .../all/retroarch.cfg file.

So that is sorted. I still would like to know the answers to the other questions, but I can live with this.

Thanks!