Game & Watch core pausing/launching problems

There seems to be a problem I’m running into with the Game & Watch core. Every time I load a game, the game automatically starts in paused mode. This isn’t too troublesome because I can simply open up the navigation menu and hit the resume button to start the game. This does however become an issue when I’m using LaunchBox and BigBox and the game doesn’t automatically open up when using those launching applications.

Does anyone here know if there is a solution to this? These problems only occur in this core specifically. I’ve tried all of my other cores and I don’t run into these issues anywhere else.