lr-mame2003 nvram/dipswitch settings not being saved, can't exit game once it starts
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youll need to ask the retropie gurus how to do this on a keyboard. You need to exit mame properly to save your info
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your hotkey is separately configured from your select key - it's the last entry in initial contoller setup. you need to press hotkey + start to exit a game
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@dankcushions said in lr-mame2003 nvram/dipswitch settings not being saved, can't exit game once it starts:
your hotkey is separately configured from your select key - it's the last entry in initial contoller setup. you need to press hotkey + start to exit a game
Ah, that helps - I'd forgotten what the hotkey was assigned to. OK, so hotkey + X is taking me to a menu...progress!
Here's a more fundamental question I've had for a while. EmulationStation has its key assignments, but MAME has different key assignments. How does MAME know to exit when I use a key combination from ES? It seems like ES has to be sending MAME a signal to shutdown - is that signal not a key or key combination?
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@yonkiman said in lr-mame2003 nvram/dipswitch settings not being saved, can't exit game once it starts:
It seems like ES has to be sending MAME a signal to shutdown - is that signal not a key or key combination?
No, Emulationstation goes into the background once the emulator (RetroArch or otherwise) gets started, it's entirely up to the emulator to process the user input and exit by itself.
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@mitu said in lr-mame2003 nvram/dipswitch settings not being saved, can't exit game once it starts:
No, Emulationstation goes into the background once the emulator (RetroArch or otherwise) gets started, it's entirely up to the emulator to process the user input and exit by itself.
That's what I originally thought. So why can't I find/change/set the key that makes the emulator (lr-make2003 in this case) exit?
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@yonkiman it’s hotkey + start to exit. it sounds like your hotkey is now working, so now i presume you just have to make sure start is bound correctly.
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@yonkiman It's in your main retroarch.cfg file located in /opt/retropie/configs/all
There will be two settings in that config file, one for the start and one for hotkey. In my case I use num1 and num5 keys.
pi@retropie:/opt/retropie/configs/all $ more retroarch.cfg | grep input_player1_start
input_player1_start = "num1"pi@retropie:/opt/retropie/configs/all $ more retroarch.cfg | grep enable_hotkey
input_enable_hotkey = "num5" -
@stoney66 @dankcushions Thank you both! Can definitely exit now, and it does remember its settings, so I've basically got it working. But the crux of why I was confused is this:
How does lr-mame know it's time to exit when I press a key combination defined in EmulationStation?
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@yonkiman the controller setup process in emulation station basically generates a bunch of config files for various things in retropie, such as: emulationstation, retroarch (the emulator 'front end' for almost every default emulator, including lr-mame2003), and some 'standalone' emulators such as mupen64plus.
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@dankcushions Got it. Thanks for all your help!
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