At first blush this sounds decent. I'm not sure how ES is coded, but flexibility is almost always a good thing.

@johnodon said in What buttons should I press? A controller cheat sheet:

@chipsnblip said in What buttons should I press? A controller cheat sheet:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/runcommand#adding-custom-launching-images

You can also set how much time this will be displayed before launching the game. What would be a nice option is if you could set it to stay onscreen until a button is pushed. I don't think this is available today.

John

pressing q or escape on the keyboard will close the image and launch the game, then you can set image_delay to a high number of seconds. the only thing left to do would be map one of those 2 keys to your controller, but i'm unsure if this would require any changes to the scripts in ~/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/runcommand/

@SuperCatFooz at that point you may as well use lakka with the xmb interface

https://github.com/digarok/gsplus/issues/52

@joestrong as the man above me stated. And when it blinks it shows 1-4 lights at once. The less lights you see the less battery power you have. You can see this when you turn on your controller on as well

funny that i came to retropie forum to post the same thing, lemme explain what i am going through

i have just switched from ES to AM for these reasons...

easy to filter game by number of players or catagory (a win for me) custom favorite sub menus ( games to play with wife and kid menue and another to play with friends for example) easier to theme game display (getting the number of players and game description on screen is satisfying)

with that, i noticed that scraping usually a pain for these type of info (i believe the box art and video preview is easier to find at the moment)

my problem is i have not find a single rom manager to easy manage different type of system roms (on PC) that can pull info from the internet direct and save them directly to gamelist and romlist directly

i use to have the same problem years ago with my movie collection, till i found this app,
https://www.mediacentermaster.com/

if anyone has a suggestion or willing to work on this, it will make alot of gamers happy

OK, I'm all set now. Got everything working. Going to post it here and on my original topic just in case it helps anyone. My actual code switches Select and Start, but most people won't want that so this is the normal way to be able to save on a 2-button NES controller. Thank you to all who helped!

[code]
input_device = " NES PC Game Pad NES PC Game Pad "
input_driver = "udev"

input_up_axis = "-1"
input_down_axis = "+1"
input_left_axis = "-0"
input_right_axis = "+0"
input_start_btn = "3"
input_select_btn = "2"
input_a_btn = "0"
input_b_btn = "1"

input_enable_hotkey_btn = "2"
input_reset_btn = "1"
input_exit_emulator_btn = "3"

input_load_state_axis = "-0"
input_save_state_axis = "+0"
input_state_slot_increase_axis = "-1"
input_state_slot_decrease_axis = "+1"
[/code]

@edmaul69

Ah, that's good to know. Perhaps this whole thing would be better suited to the wiki than a certain default, given it's versatility.