EmulationStation+Retroarch Question

RetroArch General
#1

Hello, newbie question here.

I have EmulationStation as a frontend for my RetroArch. I have a FBA playlist but there is a specific ROM (Tank Force) that only works with MAME.

The thing is, i have to configure each system to run a specific core, so my FBA system is set to run the fba core using this command: %HOME%.emulationstation\systems\retroarch\retroarch.exe -L %HOME%.emulationstation\systems\retroarch\cores\fbalpha_libretro.dll “%ROM_RAW%”.

I want to know if there is a command line or something to add so that if i run a specific ROM it will choose mame.libretro instead of fbalpha.libretro.

#2

I don’t know anything about EmulationStation and we don’t support it here. However, you would typically just replace fbalpha_libretro.dll with mame_libretro.dll in the playlist. It doesn’t sound like you’re launching from the playlist, though, and are instead using ES.

#3

You are right, I’m launching from ES. I was just wondering if there was a command line or batch script or something similar to help me with that.

Thanks for the asnwer.

#4

I’m not sure if emulation station uses rocketlauncher in some way, if it does, you can easily set a specific core to launch that game, be that MAME, FBA or another. I have a system focused on hacked games, it has hacks from NES, SNES, Genesis, SMS, etc up to NDS, and rocketlauncher handles what core will be used for that game.

#5

if i remember correctly emulationstation assigns system on a per-folder method, probably move the specific rom together with other folder that uses the same system or core

Sample system config: # nes Nintendo Entertainment System ~/roms/nes .nes .NES retroarch -L ~/cores/libretro-fceumm.so %ROM% nes nes