Retroarch: [$30 Bounty] [Feature Request] Hotkey for Start/Stop Netplay

[furiadeoso]

Description

Having a hotkey to START/STOP netplay could be a great improvement in netplay usability.

For netplayers it would be much more agile to start or change the game, without having to enter and go through the menus.

I know that there are currently people worried about the usability of netplay, but the hassle of adding the hotkey to the menu discourages devs. So I thought about opening this bounty as a small incentive for this tedious work.

Expected behavior

To close this issue it is expected that there is the possibility of defining a hotkey at "INPUT - HOTKEY BINDS" menu for START-STOP NETPLAY.

The key, used in the menu or during the game, should work in the same way as using Netplay Rooms / Start / stop netplay action. That is, if the netplay is stopped and the hotkey is pressed, it must START netplay (host) and if netplay is started, it must STOP it.

Actual behavior

There is no hotkey for start/stop netplay.

[furiadeoso]

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/71133237-feature-request-hotkey-for-start-stop-netplay

[bparker06]

I have created PR #8438 for this bounty.

[furiadeoso]

It seems to work well. Thank you! I suppose I must close this when merge is done, right?

[bparker06]

Yes although it should close automatically since I mentioned the issue number that the PR fixes in the summary of the PR itself.