@sugarfree
Thanks!

@windg You can also reset the game (Hotkey + B) in order for the controller type to be re-read, just changing it mid-game doesn't work. Save a game Remap file for the controls so you don't have to repeat the steps each time.

@sleve_mcdichael
I've tried every button combination...
did not find the desired combination of buttons!

@misanthrope whenever i have had issues with those controllers i have uninstalled and reinstalled the xpad drivers. also make sure what mode the switch on the front of your controller is set to

It has worked!

In a bit more detail:

I didn't add entries for P3 and P4 on retroarch.cfg because, what would I set them to if I only have two controllers? 4 and 5, assuming that I could be plugging in additional ones?

Anyway, I tried to re-add the two physical Logitech controllers to EmulationStation; it detect 4 controllers, but it would keep detecting the button presses as coming from the emulated Xbox controllers.

I then reset the controller settings for EmulationStation on the Retropie menu and again, it would detect 4 controllers, but it also would keep detecting the button presses as coming from the emulated Xbox controllers.

I had to disable xboxdrv and then it would only detect 2 controllers and the button presses a coming from the physical Logitech controllers. The conclusion here is for EmulationStation the physical and emulated controllers don't clash; the emulated ones take priority and the button presses are understood to be coming from them.

I then checked that on the Retroarch menu the emulated controllers were assigned to P1 and P2 and removed the physical controllers that were assigned to P3 and P4. And then everything was fine. The crux here appears to be that I had a clash, as both the emulated and physical controllers were assigned to players and probably registering button presses. Something that support this hypothesis is that on games where you have a grid to select your character (e.g. Mario Kart) it was fairly obvious that when I was pressing once to move one cell to the right, for instance, the selection box was moving two cells.

Thanks again for all your time helping me figure this out.

Hi all,
Found a solution. Under custom controls found Joy1 Fire/left mouse button. Thanks go to someone on the WHD load Facebook group.

Dwarfboysim

@myname You don't need to use any config file or modify any file whatsoever. Just follow the documentation and map your controller from Emulationstation, skip the Hotkey button assignment and then choose yes to use Select as the Hotkey button. That's it.

Ahhh shoot. Thanks both.

Out of interest, is there any way to set the Logitech as the 'primary' controller - so that when I plug in the RetroFlag one the Logitech continues to be the one that can access the RGUI menu?

Brill, thanks very much!

So I removed the following lines from /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/autoconfig/Logitech Gamepad F710.cfg:

input_load_state_btn = "4" input_exit_emulator_btn = "7" input_save_state_btn = "5" input_state_slot_increase_btn = "h0right" input_state_slot_decrease_btn = "h0left" input_reset_btn = "0" input_enable_hotkey_btn = "8"

and then made sure that that the next line was correctly mapped to my Logitech button (in my case 8):

input_menu_toggle_btn = "8"

A quick test suggests that it's working great :)

@dox1842

I'm glad it's working and the resolution is expected behavior, but keep in mind that this only fixes the singular hotkey issue. While that's a positive for now, as long as you have 'save on exit' enabled and you continue to change your settings further, each system will have different configuration settings and problems like the one you just solved will begin to surface in other areas.

@mitu good look fam.

Never mind... There's a "mode" switch on the controller that needs to be toggled. Putting it here for posterity.

@megido https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first