Trying to configure buttons for Atari2600 emulation

Dandelion

Greetings,

I just bought an iCode device so I could plug in some classic Atari joysticks and paddles and play some games on my Raspberry PI 3.

I. Am. Lost.

I watched some videos and figured out what buttons are associated with what joystick, etc. I watched a video about editing my retroarch.cfg, but am not quite sure how to edit it on the pi itself.

So I figured I'd connect to my pi with my Windows 10 computer. That took awhile and I ended up managing it in two different ways - Windows Explorer and Notepad++. It was enough for me to load my ROMS. But the file structure seems radically different than what I was expecting on my pi. The video is pointing to opt | retropie | configs | atari2600 | retroarch.cfg, but I'll be darned if I can find a opt folder - either way I connected to it.

I find myself with two problems I think. 1) I've got old man's disease; 2) working on my pi comes in fits and spurts. So I quickly forget what I did last time. I've re-installed retropie several times throughout my attempts - so maybe I forgot to turn something on?

What am I missing?

Am I approaching this correctly or is there a way to find and edit this on the pi?

Any hand-holding would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

mitu

@dandelion said in Trying to configure buttons for Atari2600 emulation:

So I figured I'd connect to my pi with my Windows 10 computer. That took awhile and I ended up managing it in two different ways - Windows Explorer and Notepad++. It was enough for me to load my ROMS. But the file structure seems radically different than what I was expecting on my pi. The video is pointing to opt | retropie | configs | atari2600 | retroarch.cfg, but I'll be darned if I can find a opt folder - either way I connected to it.

If you are using file shares to access your RetroPie (via \\retropie), then the configs folder is what you're looking for.
Anything under /opt/retropie/configs is shared as \\retropie\configs, the former is the path that you'd be seeing when using SSH/SFTP to connect to your Pi.

Dandelion

@mitu - Thank you so much! I saw those just poking around but wasn't sure that those were the ~~droids~~ files I was looking for.