Retroarch hotkey to toggle overlay

[earthprime]

I have a default overlay assigned to my Retroarch core - and can toggle the overlay by navigating through the Retroarch menu.  Is there a Hotkey that I can assign to toggle the overlay ON or OFF with my Xbox controller?  I've looked through the Hotkey options in Retroarch but only see options for "Shaders" and "Keyboard Overlay".  The retroarch.cfg file has an entry for "input_overlay_enable" but this can only be set to TRUE or FALSE, so I can't manually assign a hotkey control.

[brian84ar]

I've been looking for this too but there is no hotkey to toggle overlay on and off. we need a function like that

[skizzosjt]

there is not one. there are next/prev overlay hotkeys to select different overlays. you need to use those instead. you will need to create blank entries for any game you want to do this with. for ex for Super Mario 64 overlay it would be this below

 

the 2nd entry is blank. when you switch to the 2nd overlay ("overlay1" - note the 0 index is the first entry) it just doesn't load any image, hence, making it act just like a toggle button.

 

next and prev hotkeys will act like a toggle

 

overlays = 2

overlay0_overlay = "Super Mario 64 (USA).png"
overlay0_full_screen = true
overlay0_descs = 0

overlay1_overlay =
overlay1_full_screen = true
overlay1_descs = 0

 

 

you'll want to run a script to do this if the plan was a global change. if you wanted only certain games, then do them individually. otherwise, I made this AHK script years ago to create overlay files looking like the above. 

 

 

 

#NoEnv  ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
; #Warn  ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors.
SendMode Input  ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%  ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.

FileNameArray := []

OverlayContentsA := "
(
overlays = 2

overlay0_overlay =  
)"

OverlayContentsB := "
(

overlay0_full_screen = true
overlay0_descs = 0

overlay1_overlay =
overlay1_full_screen = true
overlay1_descs = 0
)"

FileCreateDir, New Configs
FileCreateDir, Backup

;Getting array filled with file names
Loop, Files, *.cfg, F
    {
        SplitPath, A_LoopFileName, , , , FileNameNoExt
        FileNameArray.Push(FileNameNoExt)
    }

;Creating New Configs    
Loop, % FileNameArray.Count()
    FileAppend, % OverlayContentsA . " """ . FileNameArray[A_Index] . ".png""" . OverlayContentsB, % ".\New Configs\" . FileNameArray[A_Index] . ".cfg"

;Backups
Loop, % FileNameArray.Count()
    FileMove, % FileNameArray[A_Index] . ".cfg", % ".\Backup\" . FileNameArray[A_Index] . ".cfg", 1


;Move new configs to correct directory    
Loop, % FileNameArray.Count()
    FileMove, % ".\New Configs\" . FileNameArray[A_Index] . ".cfg", % FileNameArray[A_Index] . ".cfg", 1   
    
FileRemoveDir, New Configs

 

run that from the same directory as where the overlay .cfg files live