[RESOLVED] Retrobat no inputs

Hello all! I have a similar problem that some of you have: it seems that theres a focus problem with retrobat, so I have to put alt+tab in my pc to allow inputs. I use Windows 11 and a dualsense controller with ds4windows software.

No matter If It is at the beggining or just clicking in the link in the desktop

I have tried all the things I have seen here:

Disable start programs
Trying to start It as a task
Execute It as admin and force fullscreen
Etc.

The funny thing is It never happens if a just execute emulationstation. The problem dissapear.

I have tried to execute at the beggining emulationstation, but It does not start. And I dont think it is because It have to run retrobat exe before: if I manually execute emulationstation at the start, It works.

Any sugesstion? Thanks in advance!

Hello,
There is a known windows 11 issue with explorer.exe regarding focus when starting a program via batch/command line.

So the only solution for now is indeed to run directly emulationstation.exe to solve this.

If your PC is not dedicated to retrobat, as would be an arcade terminal. Then use a batch to launch retrobat.exe and kill explorer.exe at the same time, and a wait on the station.exe emulation executable to wait for it to close before restarting explorer.exe.

If it's a dedicated , use Windows strategies to run retrobat.exe instead of explorer.exe.

Aynshe wrote:If your PC is not dedicated to retrobat, as would be an arcade terminal. Then use a batch to launch retrobat.exe and kill explorer.exe at the same time, and a wait on the station.exe emulation executable to wait for it to close before restarting explorer.exe.

If it's a dedicated , use Windows strategies to run retrobat.exe instead of explorer.exe.

Mmm, Ill try that. Thanks a lot!

Just one question: Ive tried before to substitute Explorer.exe with retrobat.exe with no results (maybe I did It wrong).

So, the question is: what is the advantage of using retrobat.exe as Launcher instead of emulationstation.exe?

Thanks you both for your help!

to replace it with retrobat (explorer.exe can still be run from the task manager): C:\Windows\system32\gpedit.msc



For temporary work while waiting for retrobat to be closed:

For exemple :

Code:

@echo off

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe

retrobat.exe

set "emulatorProcess=emulationstation.exe"

:CHECK_PROCESS
tasklist /fi "imagename eq %emulatorProcess%" | findstr /i /c:"%emulatorProcess%" > nul
if %errorlevel% equ 0 (
    timeout /nobreak /t 5 > nul
    goto :CHECK_PROCESS
)

start explorer.exe
exit /b 0


So, the question is: what is the advantage of using retrobat.exe as Launcher instead of emulationstation.exe?

Because he's worth it!...  otherwise, i don't know, it must be useful for something otherwise it wouldn't exist.

Aynshe wrote:to replace it with retrobat (explorer.exe can still be run from the task manager): C:\Windows\system32\gpedit.msc



For temporary work while waiting for retrobat to be closed:

For exemple :

Code:

@echo off

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe

retrobat.exe

set "emulatorProcess=emulationstation.exe"

:CHECK_PROCESS
tasklist /fi "imagename eq %emulatorProcess%" | findstr /i /c:"%emulatorProcess%" > nul
if %errorlevel% equ 0 (
    timeout /nobreak /t 5 > nul
    goto :CHECK_PROCESS
)

start explorer.exe
exit /b 0


So, the question is: what is the advantage of using retrobat.exe as Launcher instead of emulationstation.exe?

Because he's worth it!...  otherwise, i don't know, it must be useful for something otherwise it wouldn't exist.

Thanks a lot! It worked like a charm!