Creating a Single Arcade Section

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#1

Hi, I’m using EmulationStation as a front end. Does anyone know how to create a section that allows two or more emulators to be used, In this case it is an Arcade section that would have access to Final Burn Neo and a couple of versions of MAME.

Thanks

#2

Hi,

If you’re using the original EmulationStation, you can’t have multiple emulators for one section. For Windows, there are alternatives like this one with the feature you want.

Another useful link : Updated EmulationStation for Windows - RetroPie Forum

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#3

Thanks, I’m using that version. Do you know of a guide to making an ‘Arcade’ section?

#4

In your es_systems.cfg, you can add an emulators tag per system (First paragraph here, don’t forget to change the command tag with the %CORE% argument).

In your gamelist.xml, you can add an emulator tag and a core tag per game with the same values you used in es_systems.cfg. The core tag is not necessary if there’s only one core for an emulator.

Check the github if you need more info or the Retropie topic.

#5

Ok I’ve done all that but games just return to the main menu with exit code 1 (path issues apparently). Is there anything like the mini program that allows you to select an emulator like on the raspberry Pi build?

#6

Are you sure your path is correct ? If you use a relative path (…\Roms\arcade\file.zip), you should be able to access this file in Windows Explorer from the ES folder.

There’s a log file in ES folder. I used a custom rom launcher with the original ES, but it was definitively not necessary with the fcamod version.

#7

I double checked, I’m pretty sure they’re right but I’ll check again.

Thinking on this, I think I may be better off going with the latest MAME core and getting ROMs to match that core rather than matching cores to the existing ROMs I have (which area a mirror/backup of the ones on my Pi anyway).

Am I right in thinking that the mame.libretro.dll core matches the 0.220 ROMset? Eventually the Pi will catch up in this regard and I can run the single newer ROMset on both devices. At some point in the future I will probably have to do this anyway, it may as well be now.