Swap A & B only in muOS UI

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Hi folks, just upgraded from Pixie to Canada Goose. Absolutely loving it, but I’m having a bit of trouble with button config. In Pixie I could’ve sworn I had it so that B=Confirm and A=Cancel in the muOS UI, without affecting games.

In Canada Goose I’ve tried enabling “Button Swap” as per this thread, but it doesn’t quite seem to do what I’m after. It gets the muOS UI working how I want, but the buttons are also swapped in-game which completely destroys my muscle memory :rofl:

Is there another config option for this I’ve missed? To be clear, what I’m after is:

  • Confirm/cancel swapped in the muOS menus (so it works how my PlayStation-brain wants it to).
  • Buttons remain unaffected in-game (so I don’t need to re-learn how to jump in Crash Bandicoot, for example :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:).

Thanks for any pointers!

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…just occurred to me I can probably set muOS’s “Button Swap” to Modern, and then swap them back in-game via RetroArch config. I don’t remember doing it that way in Pixie, but maybe that’s the intended approach now?

(Also possible I did do it that way in Pixie and just forgot about it :laughing:)

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You can change this via your content selection.

  • Press SELECT on your content.
  • Choose Control Scheme from the content options.
  • Choose Retro from the content scheme list.
  • Press X to assign the whole directory.

That will ensure your content stays the same with the muOS frontend swapped.

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Thanks, that should do the trick! Probably simpler than the RetroArch approach I was considering too.

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Just realised these settings aren’t used when I launch games from the history menu. Is that intended or a bug?

EDIT: Also doesn’t work for Collections.

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In case it helps anyone else, swapping the buttons back via RetroArch achieved what I was after. The previous approach didn’t work if games were launched via collections or history, which wasn’t ideal for me (I mostly launch games via history).

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I agree the button swap preference in muOS should not affect games at all.

Whether someone wants to use A/B or B/A in the menu has nothing to do with decades of muscle memory playing games, or reading the control menu inside the actual game or the game manual.

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You can achieve this by using the solution @xonglebongle posted above, and it will not affect your years of muscle memory