@WildDog

If it's for MAME standalone version, In the first post here, do step 10 and 11.

@theotherdan

Thank you. This was caused by the environment though. I was booting into PIXEL desktop before launching EmulationStation. This configuration prevents quite a few things to function as expected.

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@jtron9k said in Manually edit Retroarch configurations not working in setup menu:

I have a pretty good feeling it is due to a bezel project install.

That might be the cause and it's worth investigating. For which systems did you install the bezels ?

@Libation

thanks you :)

Sorry, I purchased Raspberry Pie 3, and downloaded Retropie and have version 4.1

Everything I installed was from common search online.

I went to update something a few weeks back while tinkering and since then in the menu alone it's given the attempt to update python and then nothing

I can provide a picture if that would be helpful.

@kisu2012

no :(

@CLU

This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but at least it's a start.
http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=tmh792ibdi9lvp90l36n30oib0&topic=1416.0
I'm not the creator though.

@AEtherScythe after you change the configuration to swap buttons, I believe you also have to remap the controller in emulation station for it to work properly. Hope that helps.

@klachow You can see the version when you start the RetroPie-Setup script.
To get this, you should EmulationStation and then re-configure your gamepad to the joystick axis are added to the input configuration.
For manual installation, you can look at @chipsnblip's instructions.

I have a problem where I deleted it but it wont recreate the file? any ideas or help with that.. I have chmod the cfg directory to 777

mame4all works fine

lr-mame4all wont work at all