@barbudreadmon I agree. Even the term "game focus" isn't intuitive enough, otherwise I might discover the solution by myself searching the menus.

I found the answer, and it was the most obvious, of course.
The SMS pause button is configured as the Port 1 Start button in retroarch, so whatever input I bin to Port1 Start does the job. Fortunately this still works if I have the input type as Light Phaser.

@protocultor This fixes the problem, thanks!

Sorry for the late reply BTW. I decided to gather up all my Pi stuff and take a couple weeks break from touching any of it!

@denyou I just got this working with @sleve_mcdichael's help on reddit. See if there's anything in that thread that helps or drop back in and I'll try to walk you through it here. It works like a charm and is a really great feature.

Added pause overlays for Neo Turf Masters. and Windjammers

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how do i add game overlays? i have the images but whats the steps? thanks for any help

One final note...

I had been doing all of my testing on an x86 platform. Since moving the scripts/overlays to my RPI4, I had to increase the sleep outside the loop to 2 otherwise it wouldn't pause.

#! /bin/bash while ! pgrep retroarch >/dev/null; do : sleep 1 done sleep 2 echo -n "PAUSE_TOGGLE" | nc -u -w1 127.0.0.1 55355

@mitu Will do, thanks!

Now if you or someone can tell me how to save high scores in mame2016 it will be awesome! I just don't know where the files should go.

Original post at: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/23945/high-scores-not-saving-mame2016

I have similar problem. I thought its my adapter to the monitor. I use a dongle for keyboard too. What was the interval when you got this screen freeze? I get it maybe once in a hour. Maybe its a different story on my side.

@mitu Thank you very much! Just needed a good noob starting point, much appreciated.

@mediamogul Worked perfectly, many thanks!