How to make two same cores exist in the cores folder?

RetroArch
#1

For example: I’d like to use one old and the latest version of mGBA at the same time and I want two cores displaying like this:

Nintendo - Game Boy Advance (mGBA_old) Nintendo - Game Boy Advance (mGBA_new)

Is there a way to achieve this? TIA

#2

As long as you don’t mind them sharing all of their files (i.e., for RetroArch to see them as the same core, internally, for things like overrides), sure, I think so. Just rename one of them and make a new core info file to match it.

If you want them to actually be entirely separate cores, you have to change some things about it internally and recompile (see the ‘split cores’ threads on this forum for details).

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#3

Thank you for the tips and the fast reply! I will just go the first method :blush: