Retroarch Ignores Macro/Simulated Keypresses about retroarch HOT 4 CLOSED

AutoHotkey works and has been working here always, using the regular Send method, and 60 ms sleep per keydown has been enough at least to register the press every time.

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Can you provide a working AHK script that I can test?

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There is nothing special about it, and my scripts are too complicated to simply copypaste around as an example.

I suggest first making sure that WinActive is working properly with some random msgbox prompts. After that there is no way that Send won't be picked up. And does not matter what the RA input driver is, as in dinput and raw both work fine.

And I also suggest first trying to script a keyboard press, since certain xinput controllers and GetKeyState with 1JoyX is not guaranteed to work. Which means that you need to create a loop that uses XInput.ahk for reading the input.

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Decided to go a different route, using an ESP32 with ESPHome to emulate a Bluetooth HID keyboard

I think it may have been related to key press timing, as Retroarch was flakey on acknowledging the input until I set to release delay to ~500ms. Now that it's set, it works perfectly

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