Vegz78
commented
2 years ago (See here for the main Zero Decoder Arcade controller thread...)
Hi and thanks for trying out McAirpos and good to hear it is mostly working on your arcade!
The reason your hotkey is not working for exiting the MakeCode Arcade games is probably because MakeCode is unaware of your controller config in either RetroPie or Recalbox, and instead works and is mapped independently on a much lower level; directly in the raw/Linux Input Subsystem(with some mapping help from uinput-mapper if you did not configure your controller manually).
uinput-mapper’s default arcade1.py mapping config file covers many common gamepads’ button mappings, but since there’s a very wide variety, some gamepads work 100%, others only partly and others again incorrectly or not at all without some edits to this file.
MakeCode Arcade games features an exit button, a restart button and a menu button, which by default for e.g. the PS3 controller is mapped to its start, select and mode(middle) buttons, respectively: https://github.com/Vegz78/McAirpos#default-and-modifying-the-layout-for-controls
What controller are you using and which button on it would you like to work as the hotkey/exit button? (and with which button can you exit the games with now?)
(PS: you could run evtest in the console and press this button to get its EV_KEY code name)
megabob1985
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Hello again, I am getting my arcade machine working perfectly with your code! I just have one issue though, whenever I play my games, I can't exit out with the HOTKEY like the other games on there. Is there a way to do so that I might not have tried yet? Thank you.