# Bad button Mapping

**URL:** <https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/bad-button-mapping/21715>\
**Category:** GameShell\
**Tags:** help\
**Created:** [March 2, 2026, 4:57am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/bad-button-mapping/21715 "2026-03-02T04:57:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Some\_Common](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/some_common/32/10440_2.png) [@Some\_Common](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Some_Common)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 4:57am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/bad-button-mapping/21715/1 "2026-03-02T04:57:17Z")

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So basically for a reason idk i have the pause button asigned to “A” button, is there a way to change this? i already tried a decent amount of things in ssh and retroarch, HELP ME PLEASE

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**Author:** ![bboti86](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/bboti86/32/8421_2.png) [@bboti86](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/bboti86)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2026, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/bad-button-mapping/21715/2 "2026-03-07T19:25:38Z")

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Hi

This will help you set the assignments properly

> **[Verifying...](https://retropie.org.uk/RetroArch-Configuration/#core-input-remapping)**

If you can not do it in RetroArch you can manually edit the config file on your SD card. This one is also described in the article.

This happened with me as well and I was only able to do fix it by editing the file

Regards

B

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**Author:** ![Some\_Common](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/some_common/32/10440_2.png) [@Some\_Common](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Some_Common)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2026, 9:39am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/bad-button-mapping/21715/3 "2026-03-08T09:39:43Z")

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the link doesn’t work, also i dont understand what i should edit in the config file