Swap OK/Return buttons

[jesus2099]

By default, EmulationStation happnes to be:

• A for Cancel
• B for Confirm

It took me times to get used to it but I still mistake quite regularly. Coud there be an option for swapping this to:

• A for Confirm
• B for Cancel

Not just swapping my controller settings because then, the problem would just move from ES to all games. :)

[pumrum]

I agree that the default A/B for cancel/confirm in EmulationStation is contrary to what most gamepad users are accustomed to (especially those using playstation controllers). While we wait for word on a permanent fix, you can edit the following file to fix only EmulationStation without affecting the rest of your emulators/roms. This assumes you're using RetroPie on a Raspberry Pi, on other systems YMMV:

::swap A/B buttons in emulation station /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_input.cfg

RetroArch includes a specific "Menu Swap Ok & Cancel Buttons" option that has the same effect on those interfaces. Manual edit may be made here, though I haven't tested it: ::swap A/B buttons in retroarch /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg menu_swap_ok_cancel_buttons = "true"

[jesus2099]

Retroarch and all games have correct setting except EmulationStation which has B (down) to confirm and A (right) to cancel, so I would only want to change this.

For the record, B/A (down/right) →cancel/ok is the usual Nintendo setting and Japanese PlayStation setting.

I use recalbox so this file was found in \\Recalbox\share\system\.emulationstation\es_input.cfg. I changed only my gamepad SFC30 (there are many entries there) and changed only this (swapped name="a" ↔ name="b").

The problem is that it has swapped everything, not only the Emulation Station menu. :/

There is a \\Recalbox\share\system\configs\retroarch\retroarchcustom.cfg file which contains input_menu_toggle_btn = 1 so I tried unswapping the buttons (input_menu_toggle_btn = 0) but it didn’t change a thing and anyway I doubt it would have restored correct game button layout.

So I have swapped back name="b" ↔ name="a" in es_input.cfg until some other tip is found. :)

Thanks very much, @pumrum, for letting me know about these cfg file, I’ll explore them to find maybe a solution !

[erwan]

What's the status on that, any reliable solution found?

[adventureFAN]

Hope this option will add... because I like batocera very much but this issue (for me) confused me every time >_>

[NextBlaubeere]

This issue especially matters for people who do play NES/SNES games in addition to other platforms.

Playing most platformers: inside button is OK and outside button is CANCEL. Playing NES games: inside button is CANCEL and outside button is OK.

Is there a way, to set "menu_swap_ok_cancel_buttons" per controller? So I would be able to set this "true" for my NES controller and not the others. With this mechanism in place it wouldn't feel weird when I go from a NES game into the menu, because ingame (NES game) and the menu (retroarch) would be the same.