I haven’t used Retroarch in awhile, have updated to current and using the scan feature to list all my games in the menu (never tried this before). I love it!
However the first game I launch when starting retroarch when I hit Run>Select Core it goes back to the Run screen and I have to hit run again. Is this desired behavior?
That happens to me too, but only when i try to run games via a playlist.
Yeah it happens sometimes, but not other times. I am using playlists as well. I used to use Retroarch with Hyperspin but I feel like it’s unnecessary now with the improvements in Retroarch…but this bug is annoying.
I believe the behavior you’re seeing is normal. The first time you attempt to run a game, RetroArch wants you to choose a core to run it with. Any subsequent attempts to run the game shouldn’t require you to do so and should only require you to “run” it once.
You can go into Settings -> Playlists and assign a core to a playlist so that each playlist knows which core to launch automatically.