mupen64plus.cfg resetting when running app

[Aviv]

Hi,

I'm trying to make some edits to mupen64plus.cfg. After I save the config file, when I run the mupen64plus app, the config file gets reset and discards the changes. When I check the details about the config file, it seems that it gets remade every time I open the app. Any ideas why this might be or how to fix it? Thanks.

Btw I'm running on OSX and this happens whether I run the app with glide or with rice.

Aviv

[V1del]

define "a few things"? controller configs? you have to set the mode option to 0 to retain changes there. If it isn't that, are you changing the correct file? should be at ~/.config/mupen64plus/

[sidmc...@gmail.com]

This is happening for me as well. I'm trying to change the default controller bindings and they keep resetting. I changed the mode to "0" which stays at 0 but the other bindings revert back. 

Did you ever figure anything out?

[Richard Goedeken]

There is one other situation where the manual config could be overwritten, and that is if it's missing the Version parameter or if one or more of the parameters is malformed.  Can you send the console output from an instance in which your manual config values are overwritten?

Richard

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[Lorenzo Pane]

If you make changes while the app is running, the config will reset.

[Richard Goedeken]

Just to make sure I understand you, are you referring specifically to the behavior that the config file is read when the emulator is started, and then written back to the file when it exits, resulting in changes being overwritten if those changes were made while the emulator is running?

Next, are you using the Console front-end app or a different application?  This config file saving behavior is actually driven by the front-end.  The core will only try to overwrite the config file if the file was missing when the emulator started.  Otherwise it will leave it alone, and it's actually the front-end application which is directing the core to overwrite the file.  For the Console-UI front-end, you can actually specify the '--nosaveoptions' parameter on the command-line so that it will not overwrite the file when the emulator exits.

Richard

On 01/20/2016 11:52 PM, peter...@gmail.com wrote:

 this si such a horrible bug that has wasted countless hours so many of us. Im sick and tired of wasting time on this. Please tell us how to fix this, 

[Bluerose]

Richard, thank you for your reply. Let me be more specific about the problem. I was trying to use Mupen64plus-QT to edit the controller input, but despite trying numerous times, the settings always reset whether or not mupen64plus was open or closed during the configuration.

 My experience was that the mupen64 config file would always be overwritten no matter what settings I chose in Mupen64plus-QT, whether they be fully automatic, or manual with SDL, or fully manual. It was very frustrating to try to get this to work, and I read countless complaints online about people having the same experience that I did. When I started trying to edit the same file manually, i got the same results; everytime I launched Mupen64plus my config would be overwritten.

Also there is some confusion about which file is actually supposed to be edited, whether it is supposed to be the mupen64 config file or the other config file - InputAutoCfg.ini This was a mystery while I was trying to configure this, and depending on which forum you landed on the opinion would vary as to which file was the one to edit. 

I found that whatever settings I manually put into the InputAutoCfg.ini file was what actually stayed, and did not get overwritten when I launched Mupen64plus, so that's the workaround I found to work. It's unfortunate though, because all the entries have to be inputted manually via text, so the full functionality of the Mupen64plus-QT controller editor is completely useless because the config file just gets overwritten. 

Hopefully the mupen QT folks figure out how to make the settings from their GUI stick, because manually inputting numbers to configure a controller can be very very frustrating. 

On Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 7:37:22 PM UTC-8, Richard42 wrote:

Just to make sure I understand you, are you referring specifically to the behavior that the config file is read when the emulator is started, and then written back to the file when it exits, resulting in changes being overwritten if those changes were made while the emulator is running?

Next, are you using the Console front-end app or a different application?  This config file saving behavior is actually driven by the front-end.  The core will only try to overwrite the config file if the file was missing when the emulator started.  Otherwise it will leave it alone, and it's actually the front-end application which is directing the core to overwrite the file.  For the Console-UI front-end, you can actually specify the '--nosaveoptions' parameter on the command-line so that it will not overwrite the file when the emulator exits.

Richard

On 01/20/2016 11:52 PM, peter...@gmail.com wrote:

 this is such a horrible bug that has wasted countless hours so many of us. Im sick and tired of wasting time on this. Please tell us how to fix this, 

[Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira]

2016-01-22 2:33 GMT-03:00 Bluerose <peter...@gmail.com>:

Let me be more specific about the problem. I was trying to use Mupen64plus-QT to edit the controller input, but despite trying numerous times, the settings always reset whether or not mupen64plus was open or closed during the configuration.

I face the same problem with M64py, but unfortunately I won't be able to follow this "bug tracker" and help with more information.

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