Important tip for anyone using RetroArch: Make sure to choose the right Menu Toggle hotkey, or else your hotkeys will stop responding! (Explanation in thread)

[PurpleTentacle]

For the longest time, I was having a major issue with RetroArch where RetroArch would stop responding to hotkeys if I used my hotkey enable button + the menu toggle hotkey in order to close the RetroArch menu & return back to my game. I had only found one other person who had this issue, and so I was baffled as to what the cause was.

Well, after giving the latest RetroArch nightly build a try in order to see if the issue was fixed, I found that it wasn't. Disappointed, but not discouraged, I tried making RetroArch fullscreen, and I noticed that it opened the RetroArch menu... with the RetroArch search menu opened.

It then became painfully obvious that what I was doing by using the X button as my "RetroArch menu toggle" button, was accidentally opening the search function, and then closing the RetroArch menu. So it's no wonder why RetroArch stopped responding to my hotkeys. The other person I saw having this issue was using Select, which opens up an information window showing what the highlight menu option does in RetroArch, so it's no wonder they had the same issue.

 

Solution: Make sure to choose a menu toggle hotkey that isn't used by RetroArch for something else. Right now, I'm using my left analogue stick button as my "hotkey enable", and Start as my menu toggle hotkey. From quick testing, this works fine, but I haven't used it long enough to claim that it's flawless.