illithid235 Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 An issue I'm running into right away is the fact that the Esc key is currently mapped within Launchbox to immediately close the game I'm running. So many games use Esc as a pause/menu screen, so I have that hardwired in my head. Several times now I've accidentally hit Esc when I need to pause and have lost progress in the game I'm playing. Is there any way to remap this? I can't imagine why it would be helpful to have a quick hotkey that immediately closes the game with no confirmation message. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 9 minutes ago, illithid235 said: An issue I'm running into right away is the fact that the Esc key is currently mapped within Launchbox to immediately close the game I'm running. So many games use Esc as a pause/menu screen, so I have that hardwired in my head. Several times now I've accidentally hit Esc when I need to pause and have lost progress in the game I'm playing. Is there any way to remap this? I can't imagine why it would be helpful to have a quick hotkey that immediately closes the game with no confirmation message. Thanks! That's not necessarily a Launchbox thing, nearly all the emulators I use exit with the escape key. So if you have a emulator loaded and you press the escape key on your keyboard then of course the emulator is going to exit. I have never used a emulator that uses escape to pause a game, games are paused with start on the controller like real hardware, and you shouldn't really need to go into the emulator menus after initial setup, that's the whole point of a frontend in the first place, to hide all that stuff so its seamless loading and exiting to/from a pretty interface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illithid235 Posted June 23, 2018 Author Share Posted June 23, 2018 (edited) .... duh. On my end. XD Guess I wasn't thinking of how this is all set up correctly. Of course it would be an emulator thing. Thanks for redirecting my thought process! And yeah, ideally I would be able to press pause on a controller, but I don't really have a good controller option so I've been using WASD and the number pad to play. Perhaps I'll use this chance to ask... is there a way to stop snes9x from quitting on Esc? Edited June 23, 2018 by illithid235 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 If you are using LB controller automation and it uses escape in the emulator the ahk that can easily be edited to use alt+f4 instead because there certainly is a few stand alone emulators that use escape in that manner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illithid235 Posted June 23, 2018 Author Share Posted June 23, 2018 (edited) 38 minutes ago, DOS76 said: If you are using LB controller automation and it uses escape in the emulator the ahk that can easily be edited to use alt+f4 instead because there certainly is a few stand alone emulators that use escape in that manner. Do you know specifically how to reassign this? (I assume ahk means auto hotkey) I looked in the keybinds menu for snes9x but the 'Quit snes9x' hotkey is currently unassigned, yet Esc still kills the program. EDIT: Ok, I guess this was a Launchbox issue after all. For some reason there was some code in the AutoHotkey Script that was automatically added when I connected snes9x to Launchbox. I deleted that code and now all is good. Case closed?? It's functioning as intended, anyway. Thanks! Edited June 23, 2018 by illithid235 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 well say if you still wanted to use your control for it you could actually edit the code to be alt+f4 instead of escape but if removing it does the job for you than glad you got it all sorted out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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