You can try reconfiguring your controller in EmulationStation; this should rewrite the RetroArch autoconfig including the hotkey-enable function. If that doesn't work, however...

@retroprestoz said in Start button exits games without pressing select as well.:

A buddy of mine just put it together for me to use some I'm not exactly sure what he did or all of the config files and stuff.

Unfortunately, neither are we.

It is not practical to troubleshoot a system that neither you nor we have any idea how is configured. For that reason, third-party builds are not supported in any capacity.

Start here: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/#installation

I suggest you to backup your roms and configs, and then install the current latest official image for your hardware from https://retropie.org.uk/download.

Restore your backed-up roms but not the configs yet -- you can cherry-pick them later but if you blindly copy them all, the one that's causing your issue will come along with the rest of them.

@mahoneyt944
Hey man, no nothing worked, dont know why it didnt let me "enter" any key. It just didnt do anything an no no key was stuck or sticky ;)
Anyway, thanks to the help of Mr sleve_mcdichael i managed to do it. Yay :D
Thanks for you as well.
Big up

@jtkblue nvm, going to just create a new image on a new sd card which should fix it.

@russs15 Thats the exact adaptor I got that never worked with retro pie properly for me. It might be an issue with a driver that changed higher up the chain that's not related to RetroPie itself but raspian, or even in the core linux kernel.

@quicksilver Thank you very much and have a great weekend.

The disk I plan on leaving attached. I'll look into options for mount; is option "nofail" supposed to mean that it will give up trying to mount if it is non-available?

systemd-analyze blame
the top four are nmbd.service 10.8s and hciuart.service 6.4s
then raspi-config.service 1.3s and smbd.service 1s

one is the net bios name server i was pretty sure I dont use that so i disabled it with
sudo systemctl stop nmbd
sudo systemctl disable nmbd

I do use bluetooth, It seems like it is unusually slow. Reading dmesg:
uart-pl011 3f201000.serial: no DMA platform data
brcmfmac: power management disabled
and brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds; look like firmware warnings

raspi-config is probably nominal, though I don't know what it is calling or doing at startup.

I use samba smbd.service.

hey mitu, thank you!

could you explain me how to or give me a link to read how to do re-compiling?

Hi, mitu. Thank you very much for the reply. This is what I was looking for.

@mediamogul Yeah, I have to wonder if something in a kernel update caused things to get funky.

For what it's worth, while adding this week's MAME ROW games to my system I updated to 4.3.15 (07d9f95) and it didn't resolve the issue. I'm hoping either reverting to a really old version of RetroPie and then just not doing any updates, ever, or updating to the new Stretch version will resolve the problem. I haven't made the time yet to disassemble everything and put a different card in to try that route.

@dwarfboysim Start with Emulationstation input mapping and see if it fixes the RA problem. Have you done additional configuration for your gamepad besides the mapping in Emulationstation ?

@carcamerarig Yip just run emulationstation to launch and then exit through the menu it will drop you back to the console.

I can map the "parameter" keys 0-9 by hitting "Tab" to bring up the MAME menu, and the game will work fine until I close out and re-open it....then those settings aren't saved. Does anybody else have that problem?

@arkive thanks. Good to hear that is not a general problem. I ask for a new one.

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