@mitu Thank you. That was exactly what I needed to know! I have it working now. No idea how it got deleted, but glad this was the fix. Thank you very much.

I have an 8Bit Duo, and I did figure it out. Just assign the hot key and exit key to same home button. So that works with single press now. Then set up separate hot key/menu load for my keyboard, and can still access menus. So all good!

@Chuck_B Yes, it should.

Looks like an error starting it, can you post the /dev/shm/runcomand.log file contents ? Also, please add more info about your system, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@dankcushions Thanks for the response. Dumb of me. I already have many of the game specific RetroArch configs on MAME for overlays. In my personal experience, the per game core saves haven't worked for a while. This goes for my 3B+ and my 4B. Would you mind checking to see that it works? In my experience it defaults to whatever options I used in the core last, regardless of whether there is a game save. Remaps work for me, but core options haven't for some time. May be because my roms are all on a USB? Not sure. I just tried one and when I booted up the rom, it saved over my core settings with the last settings I used. mupen64plus-next-pak4 = "memory" --> mupen64plus-next-pak4 = "none" I've tried using PS1 (lr-pcsx-rearmed) roms as well depending on whether the speed hack and increased res options are viable/necessary or controller needs set to analog. Is this by chance something you (or someone else) would be willing to test quickly? Thanks. ================================ https://pastebin.com/sHc7fVpz -- Diddy Kong Racing (U) (v1.1) [!].opt located in /opt/configs/all/retroarch/config/Mupen64Plus-Next GLES2 https://pastebin.com/SjnGwhR6 --retroarch.cfg

Thank you @mitu That worked, I needed to throw in a --disable-x11 too: CFLAGS="-O2 -march=armv8-a+crc -mtune=cortex-a72 -mfpu=neon-fp-armv8 -mfloat-abi=hard -ftree-vectorize -funsafe-math-optimizations" ./configure --prefix=/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch --disable-sdl --enable-sdl2 --disable-oss --disable-al --disable-jack --disable-qt --disable-pulse --enable-opengles --disable-videocore --disable-vulkan --disable-wayland --enable-kms --enable-egl --enable-floathard --enable-neon --disable-x11 I may have got rid of the --prefix bit, I can't quite remember now. Appreciate the help. Mr Lightgun

Here is the thread where I found which menu buttons to add to the config file: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/8957/retroarch-rgui-menu-buttons-not-working/28 and to save anyone the time scrolling through the entire thread, its in the last few replies. Once I added those lines to the config file (and assigned them and the menu up/down buttons accordingly) I was then able to map the controls through the RGUI menu settings.

@mitu Nevermind. That worked. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

@BigBadHodad Glad to hear it's working for you. Below is a link to a lot of good info on setting up your GPi: https://sinisterspatula.github.io/RetroflagGpiGuides/ Specifically the advanced controller framework section will help a lot to configure emulators (like psx) that normally would require more buttons than the GPi case has. Also check out the link to the GPi discord server at the bottom of that page, it's a nice place to hang out and meet other GPi users, if you have GPi related questions.

@BuZz is there anyplace one can find somewhat simple instructions to do this?

@Clyde i guess it’s these encoder keyboard devices and their strangeness. there’s a whole page on the wiki devoted to them: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Keyboard-Controllers (personally i think this page is a good indication that retropie doesn’t handle them automatically much at all. if i had one i would want to fix that!)

@herb_fargus Thanks! I was reading now, thanks!

@mitu one success for us. The edition on that .cfg worked. One interesting thing I've noticed is: every value was 11 more than normal. If my select button value is 10, on that .cfg he was 21. If my B button value is 4, there was 15. On a side note, I've used @Clyde "mc" tip and man, it saved at least 1h of my time. Again, guys. Thanks for your time, for your effort, for your attention and for caring and sharing your knowledge with us. I request now my promotion to Private 1st Class Noob.

@mgrabow if you choose the option of creating a game-specific file "rom_full_name.cfg" (e.g. centipede.zip.cfg) input_player1_mouse_index = "n" don't forget to add this second line: config_save_on_exit = false just to prevent an override of the main config...

@mitu , thanks for the help. Tried that solution, did not work. Probably it is better to wait for a stable port to rpi4.

Finally I removed everything and reinstalled retroarch and I will take a pack made for retropie, much simpler

@tobas Patience my friend, patience. You must remember that RetroPie is free and the developers work on this in their free time.

A down vote for my post because I explained the RetroPad concept :D At the moment the only solution to the problem is to create 2 retroarch.cfg associated with 2 different systems (that launch the same core) present on es_systems.cfg. One starts with remapping associated to joypad 1 and the other with the second configuration associated to joypad 2