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illithid235

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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!

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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.

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.... 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?

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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!

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