Is it possible to set hotkeys to respond to 2+ buttons instead of just 1?

goodpi31

Goood morning! I'm looking at this part of the wiki about the hotkeys. I read SELECT is the default 'enable hotkey' button.

A few games I've been trying out depend on holding SELECT + another button to use a ingame function (such as saving in the awesome game: Link's Awakening). I've managed to change the default 'enable hotkey' button using the info on the wiki. I also know it's possible to use savestates, but I'd rather not see the retroarch menu at all while playing a game.

Now I've been wondering: Is it possible to setup the 'enable hotkey' to respond to 2 or more buttons instead of just 1?

For example: Can you setup 'enable hotkey' to L1, R1 + SELECT ... so that when you press L1+R1+SELECT+BUTTONX the retroarch GUI will open?

Melvin.FoX

As far as I know there is only one hotkey button that can be assigned and one button corresponding to each function :/

columboscoat

@goodpi31 The "enable hotkey button" can only be a single button, not a combo unfortunately.

mediamogul

@goodpi31

If all you want to do is open the rgui with your example button combo, you can add the following line to /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

input_menu_toggle = "L1+R1+Select+X"

This is only an option for invoking the rgui though. All other hotkeys are subject to a one button modifier from the input_enable_hotkey_btn setting. It should be noted that there is already a setting for input_menu_toggle in the autoconfig file for your controller located at /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/autoconfig/. I'm pretty sure that will be overridden, but I'm not positive. You may have to add it there instead.

goodpi31

@mediamogul Ah! Thanks everyone for that info. I was also hoping to increase the buttons you have to press to RESET the game (instead of hotkey+b), but I guess that's not possible yet.