Finalising RetroPie Questions

bobcat987

@jay81uk said in Finalising RetroPie Questions:

@bobcat987 Are all the default emulators Retroarch then? So on my SNES controller, what would I press as I manually configured it via the setup in retropie.

Most default emulators are retroarch (off the top of my head n64, dreamcast, and some of the experimental systems are not retroarch). As long as you mapped your snes controller normally, select + R should be save and select + L shoulf be load. If this isn't working for you, @PetroRie's post has lots of good info that should get you on track.

jay81uk

Totally confused...

So I pressed Select and the < on my control pad. This allowed me to scroll through save slots. I chose Select and > and that does the same.

No option to actually save your progress during your NES game? I pressed Select and a button which took me to the Retroarch menu, but again no option to save?

jay81uk

Ok, it appears it was to do with the controller config.

I had assigned the shoulder buttons of the SNES controller as top l and top r, when they should apparently be bottom l and bottom r, to then allow them to be the retroarch save options. Weird, but I got there.

PetroRie

@jay81uk said in Finalising RetroPie Questions:

Ok, it appears it was to do with the controller config.

I had assigned the shoulder buttons of the SNES controller as top l and top r, when they should apparently be bottom l and bottom r, to then allow them to be the retroarch save options. Weird, but I got there.

It sounds a bit confusing but once it works you'll understand how it works. You need to assign a button for saving and loading. In order to use them you need to push and hold the hotkey button which is SELECT in your case. So its:

HOTKEY BUTTON + BUTTON TO SAVE STATE
HOTKEY BUTTON + BUTTON TO LOAD STATE

Also make sure you copy the retroarch.cfg file to your harddisk in case you re-install everything you just copy n paste the file and save yourself a lot of time. Alsways back retroarch.cfg up.

I don't know if you have assigned a button to open up the RGUI menu? You can acces the emu settings, it's very handy, if you want to use this function just add the following to retroarch.cfg:

input_menu_toggle_btn = "12"

The number 12 is just a button ID from my PS4 controller, just add the ID like you done before. Make sure you also push and hold the HOTKEY BUTTON + MENU TOGGLE BUTTON if you want to open up the RGUI menu. From this menu you can acces so many options such as disk swaps, cheats (loading cheat files) etc.

I'm glad it worked out for you.