Posts by sow99

Quote from 5schatten

Well ES & Pegasus are just a frontends so once you quit an emulator you fall back to them. Retroarch is a frontend and a framework for all libretro cores. If you map the exit button input_exit_emulator = "ralt" to a free button on your keyboard / joystick / gamepad / whatever RA will instantly quit and either return to ES / P-FE or to kodi if you've started RA directly.

Controllers like the Sony PlayStation3 DualShock3 can utilize the "PS" button sony-playstation3-dualshock3-controller-usb.cfg#l29 to open the menu for example.

My "special" key on my gamepad opens the RA menu and if I want to stop it I'll return to ES. Anyway it's not possible to deal with all emulators without a keyboard so I've also a Rii Mini i8+ in reach.

Just to follow-up and close the loop, I used your suggestion and mapped the exit key to a free button on the gamepad and it worked. I ended up going with the 8bitdo SF30 Pro you recommended and it's indeed nice.

So in the end, the confusion is that ES offers a hotkey but that really doesn't do anything in the game. You need to rely on the RA settings for exit options. I now have start+select go into RA and star exits RA (back to ES for me).

Thanks again!

Quote from 5schatten

Well I'm not sure if I got your point but if you want to use libretro cores without a keyboard you can. You need either a gamepad with analog stick buttons then you have to press both of them the same time to open the retroarch menu. Otherwise it's probably possible to map the exit button to anonther button which isn't used by any game.

I use 8bitdo SF30 Pro controllers & can map these buttons as I like

AFAIK you can't map button combinations to the exit button so for example pressing select+start to exit RA won't work. If you use gamepads/joysticks that have no "spare" buttons you're probably out of luck.

...not available. Maybe in the future if someone supplies me with a S912 device and once it's GPU cores are supported by mainline kernel drivers. But I guess until this happens there are plenty of cheap replacements available so it won't make any sense to spend time on this.

Thanks for the quick reply. Sorry I wasn't clear. It's simple really. I'm launching games (SNES, PSX, N64, etc. all using libretro cores) via ES and I'm trying to use the joystick to exit back into ES. RA allows this but ES doesn't appear to for some reason.

I'm just surprised nobody has asked about this given the obviousness of wanting to go back to ES not RA when launching from ES. Is everyone toting a keyboard on their setups or just accepting the extra steps to exit first into RA and then back->up->quit to ES? What am I missing?

If I follow your recommendation, I think you are saying (if I had the SF30's), I would first hit start+select and then hit the custom button immediately afterward.

Regarding the 8bitdo SF30 Pro, it looks like the cat's meow. You use it with BT or wired? I'm assuming the former. Responsiveness doesn't suffer on wireless? Gaming must stop when microwave in use? I was shopping for a set of 4 controllers to pair wirelessly with the CN60 and these may just be the way to go...

Hi there, this is my first post. I wanted to complement you on the work done for LE 9.0 RR. I just installed it for the first time about a week ago as a Christmas vacation project. Thus far it's working quite well on both a standard dual core x86 PC and an ASUS chromebox CN60, so hats off to 5schatten and other contributors!

I've been trying to optimize the user experience and one thing I haven't been able to overcome is the exiting of games back into ES using the joystick. I can exit properly into RA using whatever hotkey I set up within RA itself. From there I can quit RA and that sends me back into ES. It gets the job done but I know I can do better.

I can also exit straight into ES using the keyboard right Alt key (AltGR) but the goal is to be keyboard free. This is the exact functionality I'm looking for but just need it via joysticks. This also provides me hope it should be possible...

A couple other notes:

• I have select and start operating nicely within ES itself. I've also changed the RA hotkey to something other than start+select but that didn't help.
• I'm using Sony dual shock controllers, standard PS1 controller, and even a Logitech Dual Shock clone. Behavior is identical between them.
• I'm running the RR-201851-1acbb17 (Generic.x86_64) version.
• Options within es_input.cfg are pretty minimal. Select and hotkeyenable can be configured there but it didn't seem to help. Although the keyboard hotkey: <input name="hotkeyenable" type="key" id="27" value="1" /> is operational. Both my hotkeyenable and select are id="8" for the joystick. Removing select didn't make any difference either.

A lot of my research on the subject turns up Retropie configurations but unfortunately not much on ES as a standalone (with just RA and no Retropie).

Any advice is much appreciated including a confirmation that someone/anyone actually has this working in their setup to confirm it's at least possible.

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