No select button installed on joystick

[smokey18721]

hi,
i have 7 buttons on my joystick
start, a, b, up, down, left, right
7 in total but no select button.
is there a way to make bind between start and any other button to exit game?

[thestarglider]

@smokey18721 any button on your joystick can be set as your 'select' button, it's up to you how you configure each button and what you wish to sacrifice control wise.

[smokey18721]

can't sacrifice that's the problem the joystick is really limited that's why i'm asking this.
thanks tho, anyone else?

[ericbsmith42]

Manually edit the cfg file for your joystick located in:

/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads

Normally whatever button is Select is also your Hotkey button while Start is set as the Exit button. What you'll want to do is change Start to be the enable_hotkey button, then set whatever other button you'd like to be the exit_emulator button. You'll probably want to assign exit_emulator to be the same as the a_btn, since by default that button isn't assigned an alternate mode. You might also want to assign the b_btn to also be the Menu button, since that's more useful than it's default alt of reset.

e.g. something like:
input_a_btn = "4"
input_b_btn = "5"
input_start_btn = "9"
input_enable_hotkey_btn = "9"
input_exit_emulator_btn = "4"
input_menu_toggle_btn = "5"

[smokey18721]

hi, @ericbsmith42 /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads is empty no cfg file there :{

[ericbsmith42]

I'm assuming you have mapped your gamepad, yes? The .cfg file is generated when you map your buttons in Retropie.

The cfg files may also be located in:

/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/autoconfig

[smokey18721]

thanks @ericbsmith42 for your help tho it works the problem is that if i assign the new button to the new key it still sacrifice it because if i press up it will hook it for a second to up then cancel it with the hot key making it useless again