How to Exit Mame2003 with Escape Key

[jonnykesh]

@caver01 Then revert, revert, revert. He is reporting issues that are unique to him. so far. That tells me where the issue lies

[dankcushions]

you really need to post your entire /all/retroarch.cfg for us to diagnose this issue properly.

assuming it's ok, the other things that can override it are:
/opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/retroarch.cfg
or
/opt/retropie/configs/arcade/retroarch.cfg (depending on where you are launching games from)
retroarch overrides in
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/config/MAME 2003 (list anything that is in here)
per-game overrides:
gamename.zip.cfg (in the rom directory)

don't worry about MAME's tab overrides - they can't override retroarch's exit bindings, only supplement.

[GtBFilms]

Thanks for all the help.

I'm away from my cab at the moment so won't be able to post the details for a couple of days.

I have a spare micro sd card so could try a fresh install as well - I did make changes to set up my USB sound card and also my powerblock switch, so may have screwed something up. That will at least tell me if it's something I've done or something about my setup.

I agree exiting the emulator is a basic thing - I've never had an issue with it before!

[GtBFilms]

I took @jonnykesh advice and did a fresh install to a new SD card - and everything works - pressing COIN and SELECT exits MAME2003 as expected.

The only thing I can think of which I did differently was this time I set up the hotkey as soon as I started up the new install - I think last time I left the hotkey unassigned, and then tried to assign it later. However I'd probably messed about with retroarch.cfg too much by then.

Thanks for the help.