Newbie Help: Example of you working retroarch.cfg with overlay please

RetroArch Additions Overlays
#1

Hi,

So I’ve been trying to get overlay and borders to work in Retroarch 1.3.6 on Windows 10. I’m at a lost.

Could someone post their retroarch.cfg file that have overlay and borders working per system based? OR point me in the right direction?

Thanks, Danny

#2

For per-system overlays/borders, you need to use the override system. In your ‘config’ directory, make a subdirectory with the name of the core (the name that RetroArch reports, rather than the name of the core library file; for example, Snes9x Next instead of snes9x-next-libretro.dll) and inside that subdirectory, make a file with the name of the core and with the extension ‘cfg’. So, you’ll have “Snes9x Next”“Snes9x Next.cfg”. Inside that cfg file, you can put any options that you only want to take effect for that specific core. In this case, it would be input_overlay_enable = true and input_overlay = “:\path o\desired\overlay.cfg”

#3

First… Thanks for the reply!

Following this direction didn’t work for me:

Created a “Snes9X Next” directory in my “config” directory Then created the “Snes9x Next.cfg” file inside that directory with this content:

 input_overlay_enable = true
 input_overlay = ":overlays\borders	v-integer.cfg"

Load Override file is set to “On” Configuration per core is “On”

#4

Nm… I got it to work by just putting input_overlay = “:overlays\borders v-integer.cfg” into the snes9x_next_libretro.dll.cfg file itself.

Thanks!

#5

that’s using the Configuration Per-Core option, which has actually been removed in the latest nightlies (and will not be in future releases). Per-core configuration disables overrides, which may be why it wasn’t working for you before.

You’re welcome to use it like you have it but it will stop working once you update, just FYI.

#6

Fantastic! Turning off the per-core configuration got it working… One more question, if I wanted to do per-game configuration for MAME games, what would I do?

For instance, for Art of Fighting 3, the rom name is aof3.zip I tried putting my config files in “:\config\mame\aof3.zip.cfg” but that doesn’t seem to load it.

Thanks again for taking the time to help hunterk! It’s definitely appreciated!

#7

[QUOTE=Wakdikyat;44954]Fantastic! Turning off the per-core configuration got it working… One more question, if I wanted to do per-game configuration for MAME games, what would I do?

For instance, for Art of Fighting 3, the rom name is aof3.zip I tried putting my config files in “:\config\mame\aof3.zip.cfg” but that doesn’t seem to load it.

Thanks again for taking the time to help hunterk! It’s definitely appreciated![/QUOTE] Remove the .zip extension in from the config name (aof3.cfg).

#8

Thanks Awakened! The worked great!