controller exit game

pygamegirl

I just configured my controller. You can see it here

https://retro-bit.com/sega-collaboration/#SaturnUSB

I skipped the keys that I don’t have in the configuration window.

Everything in the games work but I can’t exit a game using my controller.

Now I have to press ESC key on my keyboard to exit a game.

Can somebody tell me how to make a key to exit the games on my specific controller?

Atari

Assign hotkey to a key.
The hotkey is only safe to assign to the select button if a dedicated button is not available.
The Sega Saturn controller does not feature a select button nor a home button.
This is the issue. Good luck figuring out which key you want to sacrifice. I sacrificed “L”.

pygamegirl

You say it’s only safe to assign it to the select.

But then you say I have to choose another button because I have no select. Is this safe then to do?

joinski

pygamegirl

What do you mean with “safe” in this context? If you are using a controller, which does not have a Select or another dedicated button, which could be used as hotkey (like Sega Saturn or Sega Megadrive controller for example) you have to try for yourself, which button could best be used as Hotkey (it may depend which game you play, which button can be used as hotkey without accidently trigger some actions, where the hotkey is involved).

Using Select button (or another dedicated button, which is not used for gameplay) as Hotkey is recommended, because this lowers the risk to accidently trigger hotkey-combinations while playing a game.

Atari

pygamegirl To clarify: I’m suggesting that you do not bind the L button to anything but the hotkey. As in, skip over binding it until you’ve reached the Hotkey binding.

pygamegirl

Just to be sure: pressing the hotkey should exit any game in any emulator and return to the main screen of batocera?

pygamegirl

It doesn’t work!

I assigned L for hotkey and R for select.

Select works in the main menu of batocera (for options) but pressing L does not exit any game. It doesnt’ do anything when i’m playing a game.

The hotkey is correctly assigned to L.

What else can I try?

fonzi

Press the hotkey and start at the same time to exit the game and go back to game select screen.

pygamegirl

I tried this but it doesn’t do anything.

Because I have no select button I assigned R as select key and when pressing select ® + start the game is exit.

Why is hotkey (I assigned L) + start not doing this too?

Atari

pygamegirl Now that’s a bug. On my Saturn clone controller, I’m able to exit the game using L + start, when L is assigned as the hotkey.
You’ll probably want to post your es_input.cfg to the discord to see what’s happening.

joinski

pygamegirl Because I have no select button I assigned R as select key and when pressing select ® + start the game is exit.

So you mapped the L-Button as Hotkey and R-Button as Select? And Start as Start (the button in the middle of the controller) right? And when you press L-Button + Start Button it does not exit out of the Emulator, instead you have to press R-Button + Start to exit?

Sounds weired. Does it happen for every emulator or only certain ones? And you are absolutely sure, that you mapped L as Hotkey and not R? And as Atari recommended you did not additionally map L to anything else than Hotkey (so you skipped the mapping when it asked for L-Button)?

pygamegirl

Yes correct.

Only R + START makes a game exit (it happens on NES, SNES but I don’t use other emulators for now).

L + START doesn’t do anything.

Where can i find that file es_input.cfg?

I have those mappings:

A => A

B => B

X => X

Y => Y

START => START

LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN => LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN

SELECT => L

HOTKEY => R

So I skipped everything else, including L and R. There is written - NOT ASSIGNED - for those.

And the buttons C and Z on my controller also are not assigned to anything (they are not used)

joinski

pygamegirl Only R + START makes a game exit (it happens on NES, SNES but I don’t use other emulators for now).

L + START doesn’t do anything.

pygamegirl I have those mappings:

pygamegirl HOTKEY => R

So it is working like intended. Hotkey + Start exits the game. You have mapped Hotkey to R, so R + Start exits the game.

Where is your problem?

pygamegirl

Sorry I was confused so those is the correct ones:

SELECT => R

HOTKEY => L

R + START makes game exit. L + START doesn’t do anything.

pygamegirl

Is it a bug?