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    Issue of exiting game with one joypad button solved!

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      hesamdl
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      Re: Start button exiting roms

      Hi everyone,
      I had an issue with my retropie controller in medadrive games, When I pressed select button in the game, I jumped out of it and was returned to the game selection list.
      I searched all over the web and found no one with exact same issue with same button, but many people had this problem with other keys or in other situations.

      And finally found the solution and came here to share it, the problem is a simple conflict with two .cfg files in your sd card:

      1- config/all/retroarch-joypads/your joypad name.cfg
      AND
      2- configs/system name/retroarch.cfg

      In the second file find this line:
      input_exit_emulator_btn = "8"

      And replace the 8 with null.

      All done, that's it.

      In my case this number was 8, that was pointing to the select button in the joypad file. So your exit button may differ.

      I think this line was going to be applyed to the number 8 button on the keyboard, but conflicted with the joypad settings.

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