Hardcoding Config Files

dirty_monkee

Hello.

I have been having input problems for FBA with my arcade buttons. I can configure/map them and play but when I exit emulator and go back in to game the mappings do not save. (even after saving to core/game etc, I have watched/read all advice on this) This only happens for FBA all other systems operate correctly. I went into opt/retropie/configs/fba and altered the filename of retorarch.cfg to retroarch1.cfg thus taking this config file out the equation. Now when I load the emulator all the buttons act as I would expect except the screen is windowed and I can see the taskbar (ubuntu) and wont properly go fullscreen.

Any help would be appreciated.

mitu

@dirty_monkee Did you enable 'Config Save on Exit' by any chance ? Usually when that happens the controller config gets all wacky. Normally the retroarch.cfg should only contain a few lines and any options you set are not saved there - it's either in the core/game remap files or in the core autoconfig file (/opt/retropie/config/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg.

dirty_monkee

@mitu
There is something in that file (opt/retropie/confirms/fba/retroarch.cfg) causing this issue!

Save on exit is off

mitu

@dirty_monkee said in Hardcoding Config Files:

There is something in that file (opt/retropie/confirms/fba/retroarch.cfg) causing this issue!

The default file contains only this

# Settings made here will only override settings in the global retroarch.cfg if placed above the #include line

input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/fba/"

#include "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg"

Is your file larger/contains something more ?

dirty_monkee

@mitu
My file contains hundreds of lines. Most of them input_playerX_b = “nul” or varieties of that

mitu

@dirty_monkee said in Hardcoding Config Files:

My file contains hundreds of lines. Most of them input_playerX_b = “nul” or varieties of that

That's because you have enabled 'Config Save on Exit' when running the fba core. Replace the file with the contents I pasted above, then try to use the normal core/game remaping feature in RetroArch.

dirty_monkee

@mitu
Damn!!

It worked. Maybe I had set it to save config on exit writing that file. Then it was still there even when I changed this setting!

Pasting that did the trick. Thanks a million.

Ps. Look out for my Arcade photo uploads (once I’ve figured that out too)