[zachmorris]

The people that want to operate everything with a gamepad seem to be people looking at this as an alternative to solutions like EmulationStation for playing games on your TV, but I feel like a lot of Kodi users are like me, they've set up boxes to run Kodi on their TV that are controlled by IR remotes or remotely through HTTP and are just looking at this as a way to add gaming to those existing boxes.

I'm targeting both dedicated console and media center uses of Kodi. It sounds like for media center uses, button combos (or nothing) is the preferred option. For dedicated consoles with only Genesis controllers, holding start to bring up the menu is a possible solution.

To address both usecases, I'd like to create a set of input settings that lets the user customize their experience. I'm generating a list of all input settings and a list of all usecases. When I've completed both, I'll address settings fatigue by eliminating settings for the more niche usecases. I want to complete both lists before I make these decisions, so if you can think of any additional settings or usecases, let me know.

Here's a devils advocate use case: Touch screen users. Kodi has touch screen support currently. Retroarch has touch screen overlay input support. Is this already planned, or is this just a potential limitation of the first iteration of Retroplayer?

I'm not advocating for adding this, just thinking it's possible there are a group of tablet/mobile users out there that might want this. I believe there's a dedicated overlay button in Retroarch to bring up the OSD for touch screens.