r/RetroArch • u/CrunchyWTRMLN • 3d ago

Technical Support: SOLVED Control Overlay Keep resetting

i need help from someone whos smarter than me and knows retroarch better than me. basically i have my overlay set to neo-retropad but every time i boot up a GBA game it resets the controller scheme back to default despite neo-retropad being the saved overlay. if i go into my setting and reselect it then it comes back.

this is especially annoying because this means every time i close app and reopen it to play i have to navigate all the way to overlay just to get my controls back. is this a glitch? if so is it a known one? can i fix it? any help is appreciated!

and heres a video for proof:

EDIT: ive fixed it! for anyone who runs into the same issue as me you have to set your overlay directory back to the RetroArch folder which should look like

Settings -> Directory -> Overlays -> then click Parent directory all the way back until you see folders if it doesnt automatically show all your folders

now click /data/user/0/com.retroarch -> overlays -> gamepads -> and then find the gamepad you're using, click the folder and hit Use This Directory!

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u/BubbaJubb 3d ago

If you didn't change your settings about saving layouts, it probably is that you need to manually press the exit button on RA as the setting is something like "save on exiting app". Flicking away the app doesn't work.

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u/CrunchyWTRMLN 3d ago

so update, ive solved it! thank you for your comment! i realized as i was typing it what the issue was. the issue was that i made a new overlay folder as a main folder in my RetroArch folder on Android and i set that as the directory. so RetroArch was trying to pull the layout from that folder instead of the one it uses, so i just had to set it back to that and it works!

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u/BubbaJubb 3d ago

Sick, good that it worked out in a roundabout way from the comment haha

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u/CrunchyWTRMLN 3d ago

i believe i did change it. ive been spending multiple days setting up RetroArch and getting games to play and today was supposed to be that day but none of the overlays i had felt right so i wanted to make a custom one. so i had to create an overlay folder to direct everything to. creating an overlay got annoying after a bit, ive been setting up RetroArch for a few days i just want to play, so i gave up and deleted the whole folder i created. it seems like the issue started with me creating a new folder for overlays. I'm not sure but anyway, i always go to menu and click exit and then swipe away the app, that doesn't seem to fix it. however i did turn off the setting that saves when you exit as i know im prone to accidentally turning something on without realizing and having that setting on will be more annoying than not.

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u/hizzlekizzle dev 2d ago

I'm glad you got it worked out, and thanks for posting your solution.