Core selection required before selecting a game

This isn’t a huge deal, but one I’m not used to. But as of RetroArch 1.7.4 I have to select the core that I want to use before I can load the game. If I don’t select the core first, when I go into my game folders, I there is nothing to load. If I select the core first, all of the games for that console are able to be seen and loaded. Then RetroArch asks me a second time after I select the game I want to select which core I want to use. Is this normal now? Or is there something wrong. The games always load up if I select the core first, then the game.

Have you set up a playlist? If you have one you can then assign a core to that playlist and that core will always be used in the future.

Yeah, I see that it works with playlists, but I’ve always just combed through my files to search what game I want to play. It seems sort of redundant to pick the core, pick the file, and then it asks you what core you want to use.