Quit Retroarch with single key

t_mitch

OK, I'm feeling really dense here. I'd like to be able to quit games with a single key (or button) press rather having to press select (my hotkey) and s.

It'd be great if I could pick which key that is (something other than s).

I've tried editing every copy of retroarch.cfg I could find, setting input_exit_emulator = i (or escape or whatever). Nothing I do seems to have any affect at all.

I'm running mame4all via the ls-mame2000 emulator.

mitu

@t_mitch Try disabling the hotkey in your configuration, so the command keys are not conditioned by pressing the hotkey.

input_enable_hotkey_btn = nul

t_mitch

@mitu said in Quit Retroarch with single key:

@t_mitch Try disabling the hotkey in your configuration, so the command keys are not conditioned by pressing the hotkey.
input_enable_hotkey_btn = nul

Any suggestion for which of the retroarch.cfg files I should make that edit in? None of the ones I tried changed the exit emulator key.

mitu

@t_mitch Try the configuration file corresponding to your controller, from /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads, if you're not using a controller, then check the /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg file.

t_mitch

@mitu said in Quit Retroarch with single key:

@t_mitch Try the configuration file corresponding to your controller, from /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads, if you're not using a controller, then check the /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg file.

I'm using a keyboard and didn't see anything in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads

So I tried editing /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg again and it seems to have no effect on the hotkey or the exit emulator button setting.

I've also tried editing retroarch.cfg in /opt/retropie/configs/mame-mame4all/ and /opt/retropie/configs/mame-libretro/

Nothing I do seems to have any effect.

t_mitch

I started to think maybe I'd accidentally changed some obscure Retroarch setting without realizing what effect it was going to have.

So I decided to go back to square one. I reinstalled my disk image and started over. This time when I went in and edited /op/retropie/configs/mame-mame4all/retroarch.cfg it had the desired effect.

The only weird thing I ran into was that key b was set to "reset input" in retroarch when you used the hotkey. With hotkeys disabled that meant I couldn't press my b button. I could remap that input in the games, but I decided to just set "reset input" to nul.

I'm not sure what reset input does, but if I need it I can assign it another key.