This might be common knowledge, but I thought I’d share… I discovered after enabling the hotkey to be able to exit via the controller, none of the keyboard commands would work…

I had to add as second hotkey binding entry, but point it to a key on the keyboard. Once you enable the hotkey, you need to use it for every command…

Here are my input settings in my retroarch.cfg file

input_player1_joypad_index = 0
input_player1_b_btn = 1
input_player1_a_btn = 0
input_player1_start_btn = 3
input_player1_select_btn = 2
input_player1_up_axis = -1
input_player1_down_axis = +1
input_player1_left_axis = -0
input_player1_right_axis = +0

input_player2_joypad_index = 1
input_player2_b_btn = 1
input_player2_a_btn = 0
input_player2_start_btn = 3
input_player2_select_btn = 2
input_player2_up_axis = -1
input_player2_down_axis = +1
input_player2_left_axis = -0
input_player2_right_axis = +0

input_enable_hotkey_btn = 2
input_exit_emulator_btn = 3
input_save_state_btn = 0
input_load_state_btn = 1

input_enable_hotkey = alt