Game playback controls

Games

Game playback controls

In Kodi, game playback can be controlled similar to movies. Pause, rewind and fast-forward are possible if supported by the emulator.

Button combo reminder

Kodi uses button combos inspired by RetroPie (see RetroPie documentation). A reminder is shown the first time a game is played:

To open the game menu, press the buttons on your controller that best match Select + X as they appear on the SNES controller. On modern controllers, the Select button is called Back (Xbox), View (Xbox One), Share (PS4) and various others.

Button combos

Games in Kodi can be controlled with the following button combos:

Button combo	Player action
Select + X	Pause/resume
Select + Start	Exit
Select + Left trigger	Rewind
Select + Right trigger	Fast-forward
Select + Right stick	Change volume
Hold Start	Pause/resume

In-game menu

The in-game menu allows for some basic playback controls and shows the button combos.

Gameplay settings

The Settings menu lets you control video, audio, input and emulator tweaks.

See also

• Gaming in Kodi - Index of game related articles
  • Game management - A guide to managing game files for and in Kodi
    • Game playback controls - A guide that describes the player controls and menus for gaming in Kodi
    • Game controllers - Guides for configuring gamepads and jooystick controllers in Kodi
  • Game add-ons
    • Porting Libretro cores to game add-ons
      • Libretro
  • Game development - A guide to developing games for Kodi
  • Compiling Kodi with RetroPlayer
  • Compiling existing game add-ons