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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: Vekter on March 18, 2017, 06:12:55 PM

Title: Attract Mode not exiting emulators properly
Post by: Vekter on March 18, 2017, 06:12:55 PM

My Attract Mode keeps running the emulator in the back, even when I press the button assigned to "Global Exit". Hitting enter on any other game just resumes the game I was in, even if I'm in a different console menu.

Also, is there a way to bind "Back" to a button without it also enabling bringing up the "Exit Attract Mode?" screen? This is going in a public place and I don't want people to be able to drop out into ES.

Title: Re: Attract Mode not exiting emulators properly
Post by: KTURNER on March 19, 2017, 10:46:36 AM

Where is global exit. There should be just a "exit hotkey" in the controls section.

Title: Re: Attract Mode not exiting emulators properly
Post by: Vekter on March 19, 2017, 03:46:12 PM

That's what I'm talking about, for each emulator. I bound num1 + num3 to it (combination of 2 buttons on our joypad) but it won't actually close the game, just run it in the background.

E: To make matters worse, if I try to open another emulator, it then just sits there and loads the new one, then I'm forced to hard boot the machine as I can't get back out. I just tried changing the hotkey to see if it has to do with combinations of buttons, but no. Even with escape it just pauses and runs it in the background.

Title: Re: Attract Mode not exiting emulators properly
Post by: hermine.potter on March 19, 2017, 11:43:26 PM

@Vekter
I don't know how to disable the 'Exit Attract-Mode?'-dialogue if you hit back several times enough. maybe a solution to you: configure AM to loop

on Windows :
start AM > press TAB key > General > Exit Command : taskkill /F /IM attract.exe & C:\attract\attract.exe

on Linux/RPI :
start AM > press TAB key > General > Exit Command : attract
start AM > press TAB key > General > Confirm Exit : No

Title: Re: Attract Mode not exiting emulators properly
Post by: hermine.potter on March 19, 2017, 11:44:14 PM

@KTURNER
Close AM with 'Exit Attract-Mode?' Dialogue:
in AM : hit 'Back (Exit (Confirm))'-Button several times (see : start AM > press TAB key > Controls > Back (Exit (Confirm)) : Escape

Show 'Exit Attract-Mode?' Dialogue immediately:
start AM > press TAB key > Controls > set key(s) to '(Exit (Confirm)'
in AM : hit your configured key(s)

Exit AM immediately:
start AM > press TAB key > Controls > set key(s) to 'Exit to Desktop'
in AM : hit your configured key(s)

Exit running Emulator :
start AM > press TAB key > Emulators > choose your Emulator > set key(s) to 'Exit Hotkey'
in running emulator system : hit your configured key(s)

Title: Re: Attract Mode not exiting emulators properly
Post by: Vekter on March 19, 2017, 11:45:45 PM

Quote from: hermine.potter on March 19, 2017, 11:44:14 PM

Exit running Emulator :
start AM > press TAB key > Emulators > choose your Emulator > set key(s) to 'Exit Hotkey'
in running emulator system : hit your configured key(s)

I did this, it causes the described behavior. I'm trying to fix this issue.

Title: Re: Attract Mode not exiting emulators properly
Post by: KTURNER on March 20, 2017, 02:12:12 PM

Thanks hermine.potter, that's good to know.

Title: Re: Attract Mode not exiting emulators properly
Post by: Vekter on March 21, 2017, 10:41:43 PM

Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong here? anything I can provide to help you help me?