Autoloading cheats

Libretro
#1

A huge quality-of-life improvement would be for Retroarch to remember when you load a cheat file for a ROM, and load it next time you load the ROM (and also retain the ON / OFF status of each cheat from the last session).

Otherwise, for anyone who loads a cheat, this is their ‘workflow’ when starting Retroarch:

  1. Load ROM
  2. Load State
  3. Locate and load cheat file
  4. Enable all relevant cheats
  5. Finally, play

This is an area of RA that could use some major improvement, especially when you consider the individual emus (e.g. Snes9x) have had this kind of functionality for decades.

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#2

Although the developers of libretro have accomplished such an enormous amount, I am continually amazed by some of the remarkably simple things that have yet to be implemented.