Retroarch Hotkeys not working

[ljsquare]

Re: Keyboard as gamepad

I use the advice of @meleu in the topic in the link and it works. My keyboard (ipac ultimate) is player 1&2, player 3&4 are usb controllers.
But…. The hotkeys or admin keys aren’t working in Mame (lr-mame2003)
Normally (without a usb controller attached) to exit a game I press the keys Start1+Start2, that will send a ESC key (default config to exit the emulator).
Unfortunately with the usb controller, the emulator won’t response to the ESC (even with a normal keyboard). Neither it will respond on the usb controller to Select+Start as hotkey to exit the emulator.

For the record, if the usb controller is player1, the Select+Start hotkey works like it suppose to.

Does anybody know why this is?

Specs:
Pi 4 with retropie 4.7.1
Ultimarc ipac ultimate
Generic usb NES controller

[sleve_mcdichael]

If a hotkey_enable button or key is defined, no hotkeys will function unless the "enable" button is also pressed at the same time.

By default, there is no hotkey_enable keyboard key defined. With only the keyboard connected, the hotkeys will work individually.

But when you connect a USB gamepad, that gamepad's autoconfig is applied. The autoconfig does define a hotkey_enable button on the gamepads (usually Select).

In order to use keyboard hotkey functions when the gamepad is connected, you must either:

• press the gamepad's hotkey_enable button while you press the keyboard hotkey key, or
• define a keyboard hotkey_enable key and use that, or
• remove or #disable the hotkey_enable function from your gamepad's autoconfig (you'll also need to remove or disable all other hotkey functions that share a button with any game action buttons), or
• unplug the gamepad.

Hotkeys only work on the keyboard or on P1 gamepad. If the gamepad is anything other than P1 it won't work, but it still defines the hotkey_enable so you still have to use it, one way or another, while the pad is connected.