Retroarch config keeps getting clobbered, cannot save cheevos credentials

[Andomonir]

So I followed the instructions as best I could from this page and added my retroachievements credentials and saved the config through retroarch.

Every time I reloaded the game, the achievement login details would be gone as MuOS was clobbering the retroarch.cfg file every time it started and basically removing the login details.

The only way I could get it to work was to nuke the symlink to /opt/muos/share/info/config/retroarch.cfg and recreate the config file in ~.config/retroarch and populate it handraulically.

Now I know people are gonna say “THAT’S THE WRONG THING TO DO! TOTALLY! WHAT ABOUT UPDATES AND MOVING BACK AND FORTH FROM SD1 and SD2, HUH?” and they would be absolutely correct. So my question is:

What would have been the right way to have gone about performing this task?

[bgelmini]

I don’t know if your internal changes will let you get things back to muOS defaults at this point, but it is worth trying.
Go to applications>task toolkit>restore tasks and restore retroarch configs.

Open retroarch through the applications menu, populate you retro achievements credentials, get back to main menu, go to configuration file>save current config.

If want to make any other change to retroarch globally, you will need to enable retroarch config freedom.

My RetroArch configuration is being repressed

[image] This is working as intended. We have deliberately made the default configuration for RetroArch stay as-is. Due to the amount of issues in the past relating to people changing goodness knows what in their global configuration we have opted to freeze it. However, for those of you who know what you are doing and would like to change an odd thing or two, you can enable RetroArch Freedom Mode which is found in the Advanced Settings section. This will stop our system from replacing the def…

But the recommended way is to use overrides for the other settings.

Using RetroArch Overrides Correctly

[image] The following explains (well at least will try to) what RetroArch overrides are, why our global RetroArch configuration protection exists, and how to make changes safely without breaking things for yourself. If you are thinking about unlocking global RetroArch protection by enabling RetroArch Freedom Mode, please read the below first. What is an override? An override is a specific saved setting that only applies in a specific place. We’ll explain those specifics a little bit further …

There’s nothing more to it.
I use achievements in all of my devices, and it just works.

[Andomonir]

All I have to do to get back is to re-implement the symlink. Thanks for the advice and links, I’ll dive in shortly.

[Andomonir]

@bgelmini I put the symlink back in and edited the retroarch config in the app instead of in-game, and it worked. Thanks for the advice!