Alternate key bindings to exit emulator (besides select + start)

[KillerQ]

Hey All,

The next step in my adventure is to get a 6 button Sega Genesis/Megadrice controller and set it up properly.

I love the select+start combo to exit back to emulationstation, but the 6 button USB sega controllers don't have a select button (I want to avoid getting an actual 6 button with the MODE BUTTON and then converting to USB, i realize that's an option, however).

I've been reading, and it seems like I can change the key bindings to whatever I want to cause the exit. Can it be a combo of 3 such as START, DOWN, and A, or is it limited to one binder and one button?

[Nismo]

@KillerQ You can bind it to up+start, i don't think that any game requires that combination of buttons when playing...

[meleu]

@KillerQ said in Alternate key bindings to exit emulator (besides select + start):

Can it be a combo of 3 such as START, DOWN, and A, or is it limited to one binder and one button?

Let's get back to that wiki page I recommended you on the other thread, there you can see that you can set one button to enable the hotkey function, and one button to exit the emulator.

# in the example below the select is the button #8
input_select_btn = "8"

# and select (button #8) is the button used to enable the hotkey functions
input_enable_hotkey_btn = "8"

# start is the button #9
input_start_btn = "9"

# and start is the hotkey to exit the emulator,
# so you have to hold select pressed to enable hotkey function and then press start
input_exit_emulator_btn = "9"

What I'm used to do is disable the "exit emulator function" (comment the line with input_exit_emulator_btn line). When I want to exit I invoke RGUI and then "Quit RetroArch".

Sometimes I play with an 8Bitdo Zero and the select/start buttons are very close to each other, it's easy to accidentally press both and f*ck your game progress.

[KillerQ]

Thanks again guys. I appreciate your help!!