Shortcut keys to specific games

[coldunn]

Hi, is there a way to assign a keyboard combination of keys to launch a specific game? For example, Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S to launch Space Invaders, or Ctrl+Shift+Alt+G for Ghost n Goblins.

I have an Adafruit Macropad that can simulate key presses. I use it on windows for the odd thing, but I started wondering if I could use it to launch individual games in retropie, the first step being assigning shortcut keys to games.

Thanks,
Col.

[mitu]

@Dennisleon Hello ChatGPT. Obviously no solution given to the poster's question, but way to dance around the issue to make it legit.

@coldunn there's no configuration/ability in EmulationStation to assign keyboard shortcuts to launching a game. You can try to do a 'macro' type of action sequence and combine it with the scripting support in EmulationStation to read where exactly you're positioned.

Something like:

• press B to 'got back', a few times so you make sure that you're in the game list
• press left then read with the scripting support which system you're on. Once you're on the right system, press 'A' to enter (you can use Favorites to simplify this and to be able to change the games)
• press 'A' to enter the system
• press 'Down' for X times to get to the X game in the list, optionally read the game name via the event's script.
• launch the desired game by pressing 'A'.

It's very cumbersome and you'll see the EmulationStation UI doing the actions corresponding to the button presses while they're executed.

[coldunn]

@mitu Thanks for the suggestion. I thought as much, but worth checking.