Attract Mode not exiting emulators properly

[Vekter]

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.

[KTURNER]

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

[Vekter]

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.

[hermine.potter]

@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

[hermine.potter]

@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)

[Vekter]

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.

[KTURNER]

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

[Vekter]

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