how to exit game?

[czesiek32]

Quick question – how can I exit a game without rebooting the whole system? Perhaps there is some keyboard shortcut that does it, but I can not find it. I use retropie 3.0 on raspberry pi 1 model B+.

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Hey There,
usually the default escape button is the Esc key, but if that doesnt work you will need to add in two lines to your Retroarch.cfg file:
input_enable_hotkey_btn =
input_exit_emulator =
Any Questions, Please Ask!
AJ

[czesiek32]

[quote=93831]Hey There,
usually the default escape button is the Esc key, but if that doesnt work you will need to add in two lines to your Retroarch.cfg file:
input_enable_hotkey_btn =
input_exit_emulator =
Any Questions, Please Ask!
AJ[/quote]

Thanks for your answer! I accidentally found out that if you press ‘select’ and ‘start’ on your pad in the same time, than game exits to retropie menu :) Perhaps ‘esc’ was working in 2.X version, I’m using 3.0.

I believe it’s good idea to add this to wiki/F.A.Q. – how do you think?

[herbfargus]

Its already there on the wiki. They are known as hotkeys. See the bottom of this post.

https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration

[czesiek32]

[quote=93844]Its already there on the wiki. They are known as hotkeys. See the bottom of this post.

https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroArch-Configuration

[/quote]

It is there indeed – now I can see, but it’s within ‘Configuring Controllers (RetroArch)’ section, which is quite confusing. I was looking for keyboard shortcut, didn’t this that it’s possible using gamepad only :) Many thanks for your help!

[herbfargus]

you can have it configured to your keyboard as well.

in the setup script you can go into SETUP and then option 310- change hotkey behaviour and select option 2 Press ALT to enable hotkeys

Then you can press alt+esc to exit your emulator

[czesiek32]

[quote=93868]you can have it configured to your keyboard as well.

in the setup script you can go into SETUP and then option 310- change hotkey behaviour and select option 2 Press ALT to enable hotkeys

Then you can press alt+esc to exit your emulator
[/quote]

I’ll stay with gamepad solution, but thanks for this hint ;)

I’ve also added wiki post about this.

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