@BuZz OK thanks, that got me back to the defaults.

After doing that the menu still wasn't responding so I deleted the emulationstation input configurations. Now it seems to be working better.

@windg Hi. This doesn't seem to have worked, I can use the keyboard to navigate the main menu but not in Retroarch.

hi mitu, i istalled another retropie image now and now the "mutitap" with the retroarch options from the runnign games works fine. its not like before, but im fine with that.

Thank you

Then it means the retroarch.cfg was not a problem, but can't think of a reason why running it from EmulationStation has this problem.

@richard-baker please provide the information and files requested

@irob the hierarchy is explained here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/22816/guide-retroarch-system-emulator-core-and-rom-config-files

this also explains how to reset back to retropie's default configs (which, as you've found is quite different from retroarch's)

I fixed it on my own. You got to raspiconfig, select advance tools, select configedit and select "libreto, change settings for libreto retorarch, select retroarc.cfg and change Video_driver to "GL" and then change menu settings to "refui" and then turn off threaded video to "false", set audio to "Alsathread" and that did it or something along those lines, I have only just fixed it.

@dankcushions Yeah, you are right, that will probably be less and less relevant.

Still good to include instructions in this post as well ;-)

Thanks for your time and for your reply!

@daviddraper Hi do you know if I can access the RetroArch menu via the keyboard?

@meltedpineapple ya, that’s what i meant by

ignore the analog part

but i probably should have found / written a more relevant guide !

@dankcushions

Can you forgive me little rant earlier? Sorry. I've had a good play with it now and I think it's working. And I understand what you mean by pressing the hotkey and F1. Is there a way to have it by pressing F1 alone?

I've Reset Retroarch config and plugged in a Wired Mouse and keyboard and OP Wolf is working now.

I've also changed my RetoArch to Ozone just like my PC. It's much less confusing now. It's going to take some time to get used to this :)

My guess is because of the recent Libretro hack, no assets are currently available for download - including cheats.

@mitu Off course this will work. However each time I want to change another item have to create the retroarchcfg file again. When I use a simple copy script all other settings can't be changed anymore. So each time I go to the retroarch menu and change something the retroarch.cfg gets overwritten. So using two files (one with and one without the disabled hotkey) just isn't a working solution. I really want to be able to make it independent of other changes in the file I sometimes do using the retroarch menu.
A script that edits that single line is the best solution, however I'm just not clever enough to make the script.

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.

@mitu Thanks! That was the bit I needed to change. I replaced "standard" with "dualshock" and now analog controls work :)

Do you have an arcade panel configured or are you just testing out with a controller ?
The X button is mapped to the input_menu_toggle_btn action, so you can remove the line containing the mapping from the controller configuration file. The file is generated by Emulationstation in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads, named after your controller. To be honest, I'd be more concerned about the Hotkey + B (reset content) combo, since it will reset the game, while Hotkey + X merely pauses it.

If you're using a keyboard, I think F1 toggles the menu.

lol fixed it. So apparently I didn't have to edit the retroarch.cfg file I thought I had to, which was the one under config/retroarch/config. The one I had to edit was under "all", some sort of root directory not accesible through the File Manager. I had to use the Configuration Editor to make the change. Initially I had tried using the editor within File Manager (nano).

Ooops, sorry. Wrong thread.

@mikeylikesit33 said in RetroArch GUI on my Hotkey?:

No idea what was wrong, as the CFG's were still all the same as before I upgraded my Retropie per Ultraedit File Compares... but there was something funky somewhere.

As glad as I am for you that your problem is solved, the nuclear way of solving it made sure that neither you nor we may learn what caused it.