Adding to Favorites or Game Collections

spanishsnowman

Trying to fumble my way through this and I'm getting frustrated, so I thought I'd turn to you all. I have RetroPie 4.5.20 connected to an Ipac2.

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EmulationStation V2.7.6RP

I use Emulation Station to select the ROMS to play. I have nearly 4000 and I wanted to create a "Favorites" list. However, when I am in the MAME menu and go to ROMS to select a favorite, it doesn't do anything other than PageDown I think. When I'm in the list of ROMS and select a game and press Y to add to Favorites I don't see an acknowledgement. In fact, that's when it pages down or something.

My iPAC says Z is mapped to the input_player1_y. That file is the Retroarch.cfg in the config\alls. Nothing else is configured for input.

Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong or point me in the right direction for setup I would appreciate. Thank you in advance.

mitu

In EmulationStation, to mark a game as favorite you need to press the Y gamepad button (or the button/key you've assigned to it in the input configuration).

spanishsnowman

@mitu ok, I understand that correctly. So, I never assigned a gamepad. I only had originally the keyboard then the ipac. In the global retroarch.cfg input_player1_y = "z" but that isn't working. Meaning, when I press Z nothing happens. Is that what you are talking about, or is there something different to configure?

mitu

@spanishsnowman said in Adding to Favorites or Game Collections:

In the global retroarch.cfg input_player1_y = "z" but that isn't working. Meaning, when I press Z nothing happens. Is that what you are talking about, or is there something different to configure?

The RetroArch input configuration doesn't apply to EmulationStation. Configure your keyboard/IPAC in EmulationStation and map the Y button, then you can press the mapped button to add the game to Favorites.

spanishsnowman

@mitu is there a document or post that describes how to configure the keyword in emulation station? It's been so long since that automatic "detection" of input device that I don't remember. Or is there another file I can look at that would tell me what the configuration is for emulation station input?

Thank you for all of your help and suggestions. I appreciate your time.

mitu

@spanishsnowman You can configure it just like a gamepad - go to Input Configuration from EmulationStation menu and start configuring it.

spanishsnowman

@mitu Thank you so much. I just went in and redid the input and it's working. I was able to go into my listing and "add" games to my favorites, and even remove them. Thank you thank you thank you. I'm so excited.

spanishsnowman

@mitu One last question since I have your attention. Before I had remapped this to my ipac joysticks and buttons, my hotkey + f12 would be mapped to "exit" a ROM. I selected Tab as my hotkey, but TAB + F12 no longer exits a ROM. Is there default? Because exiting a ROM back to Emulation station wasn't a choice when configuring the input.

mitu

The exit hotkey is mapped to the Start, so what key did you map for the Start button, is it F12 ?

spanishsnowman

@mitu No, I mapped Start to Key1.

mitu

Then the exit shortcut would be Tab + Key1.