retroarch.cfg permissions

holdstoprestart

Hi,

first, I am a completely newbie and my problem is very simple for you, I guess.

I have a custom retroarch.cfg file from my old system (my sd card was broken), I installed a new fresh retropie and now I want to copy my "old" retroarch.cfg into configs/all , but every time I do that and start an emulator it dont use my file and build a second retroarch.cfg instead. With exactly the same name. I think it has something to do with right and permissions in that folder? I am not sure why my new system dont accept my "old" retroarch.cfg. btw, the hardware is exactly the same.

backstander

hello @holdstoprestart
You might have to give us some more information before we can help. Try reading this post!
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Also tell us exactly where you are putting your old retroarch.cfg and where the new retroarch.cfg is being created including the exact case because Linux is case sensitive. Like there can be a file named Retroarch.cfg and one name retroarch.cfg but actually the one all lowercase retroarch.cfg will be used and if there isn't one, it will make one with default settings.

If you're worried about permissions you can find that out by running ls -l retroarch.cfg in the same directory that file is in and if you need to change it from pi:pi to root:root then you would type in sudo chown root:root retroarch.cfg while in that directory.

If you're new to Linux then you might read this list of Linux commands:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/commands.md

Floob

@holdstoprestart You may find it easier to edit your existing config rather than copy the old one across.
You can quickly see differences with a service like https://www.diffchecker.com/diff

holdstoprestart

Thanks for the answer. It was really a very dumb mistake of me. The name of my two files looks exactly the same, but after one retroarch.cfg was a "space", thats why it was not recognized.

Okay, everything works now, except one thing: I did a lot hotkey binds for in/decrease volume, load/save, and everything works great. But when I use mute-hotkey (select+x), it mutes the audio correctly, but also activates the fastforward. it stopps when I unmute. Did anyone had the same problem? the retroarch menu says my fastforward toggle is on "keypad7" , but its activated when I use the mute-toggle (x). I changed the fastforward toggle to different buttons like w and p, but its also activated with x. To make it more crazy: I have this problem in every emulator except the snes one. But the configs for the snes emulator and the other emulators are exactly the same. Do have someone an idea what I can try to make it work?

edit: When I turn off "threaded video" in the retroarch menu the mute button works fine without "fastforwarding" the game, but the sound is very laggy now! I dont have a clue why my hotkey bin for mute is connected in some way with this threaded video option.

edmaul69

@holdstoprestart you probably have the other hotkey set in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/"name of your controller".cfg

holdstoprestart

Thanks, but no, it has something to do with the threaded video.