mGBA Forums

Hey There, I have a new ROG ally that I've set up with EmuDeck. I'm not new to emulation but I am new to EmuDeck and emulation station. I've started setting up mGBA and I can run the games just fine but I can't seem to change the controller layout. I've changed it from MGBA's settings multiple different ways and it works as expected if I open the room from mgba, but if I launch through emulation station I believe retroarch is overriding the controls. Is there any way I can have retroarch use the controls I've specified in MGBA or set the controls in retroarch as well? Happy to provide more information. Thanks!

I since found how to do this, every step of which was completely unintuitive. Open the game > open the on-screen keyboard > use f11 to open quick menu > go to controls > button by button switch which button on your controller activates which button in-game > Save the controller scheme as remap file for this core. Retroarch REALLY needs to change how that works

Try setting the controller layout directly in RetroArch under Input settings. Ensure EmuDeck's configurations aren’t overriding your changes