Reply To: 8Bitdo Bluetooth Controller Guide (Retropie v3)

[Anonymous]

I have the SNES30 controller which works fine in emulationstation and in games, but I can’t seem to get the hotkeys to work for saving and loading save states. The controller config file at opt/retropie/configs/all has the following lines but they don’t seem to work;

input_save_state_btn = “18”
input_save_state_btn = “17”

I know hotkeys have been enabled because it works to push select + start to exit the emulator. All the hotkeys for my original SNES controllers plugged in to a usb adapter still work fine.

Is there some reason that I can’t use the shoulder buttons on the SNES30 controller for hotkeys? I saw a post on some other forum where someone said he could never get the shoulder buttons to work either, so he had to re-map the hotkeys to something else.

Also, if my usb controller is plugged in and I used the 8bitdo controller, it will select the game from emulationstation, but I lose control once in the game. I’m guessing that it assumes the usb controller is player 1. Is there a way to make the 8bitdo controller have priority for player 1?