Controller profile per libretro? Windows version

RetroArch General
#1

Just registered to ask about this, as I have no clue about compiling or anything. Just using this in Hyperspin as my go to emu. Is there a way - other than having multiple RetroArch folders for each libretro - to set up separate joystick profiles for each emulator? Would be nice to have turbo buttons for say Sega Master System or TurboGrafx-16, but I’d need those buttons for SNES so I can’t set them up universally. I noticed I couldn’t find a way to use the Menacer or Sega Mouse either for the few games which need them, but I suppose that’s a whole other thing.

Also a problem I’ve encountered: is it just me or is there no 6 button support for Mednafen? I went to test a few TurboGrafx CD games and noticed this. To be specific; Valis III requires the 6 button controller as one of them is for slide, yet using RetroArch I could find no way of doing this. Using the standalone Mednafen, there is a toggle option to swtich between the 2 button and 6 button layouts.

Using a wireless 360 controller for Windows, and I’m on Win 7 64-bit if that helps.

#2

For the config question, you can save multiple config files and then point to them with the ‘-c’ option. For example, I have snes.cfg, gba.cfg, etc., as well as separate cfg files for individual games with which I want to use different input mapping, shaders and so on. My RetroArch launch command (on a Linux system, but Windows should be similar, other than the file paths) looks like this:

retroarch -c /home/[name]/.config/retroarch/whatever.cfg -L /usr/lib/libretro-whatever.so /path/to/rom

The -L switch tells it which libretro library to load.

#3

Thanks, that worked great. Had overlooked that save config option in the GUI.

Any idea about the 6 button Mednafen support though?

#4

I don’t know anything about that, unfortunately, but I think there’s a feature in the works to allow configuring core runtime options, so that could get you fixed up if/when it gets implemented.

#5

Ah okay, that’s cool. Thanks for answering.

It’s not a huge deal really since Turbo CD didn’t really have much to offer, just a few decent games.