retroarch wrong button bindings

cgmckeever

Just had an epiphany moment where it finally clicked that retroarchcustom.cfg is regenerated each load (duh https://wiki.batocera.org/advanced_retroarch_settings) ….

That clears up some of the confusion as to why my mappings have been going sideways. Now I have a different/related question

I have two always plugged in controllers, and they always register as dev-0 and dev-1 (good)

Ive set a couple emulators to default to dev-2 and dev-3 (ie NES console) via batacera.conf

nes.retroarch.input_player1_joypad_index=2
nes.retroarch.input_player2_joypad_index=3

which works .. however, this batocera/retroarch regen seems to still use the key bindings of dev-0 and dev-1, which is not correct for the other controllers. ie start/select on dev-0/1 are 8/9 and its 6/7 on the the other devices. Im thinking Im missing something to trigger batocera to use the correct bindings when it reges retroarchcustom.cfg

any ideas?

cgmckeever

I found this and just got excited, thinking I could define which device to use per core

https://wiki.batocera.org/remapping_controls_per_emulator; but I dont think its what I waas hoping for

EmulationStation Although not always the case, some controller settings are configured from within Batocera. These settings can typically accessed through the GAME SETTINGS → PER SYSTEM ADVANCED CONFIGURATION → <system name> before launching the game. These may include things like what type of device is connected to what port, whether Joy-2-Dpad is activated for non-analog controllers, what preset keyboard configuration is used, etc. dependent on the emulator. Some of these settings may be ignored when manually making an override in the emulator itself, so keep this in mind. Settings like this will be referred to as “ES’s setting”.

cgmckeever

Different piece of the puzzle, with a working path forward can be found here https://forum.batocera.org/d/8738-changing-port-device-does-not-update-bindings/2