hi I’m wanting to do something like but where do the .cfg files go and how do I name them
You can do per-game overrides. You can read about them here: http://blog.andressm.org/new-retroarch-features-2/
I think the easiest route is to go to settings > configuration and enable ‘use per-game core options if available’ and ‘load override files automatically’. Then, when you load a game, go into the core options and save a game-specific options file. That will create the directory structure for you and show you what you need to name your file. If that file is named foo.opts, you would name your override foo.cfg. This file only needs the options you want to change for this single game, such as video_shader_enable = “true” and video_shader = “/path/to/specific/shader.cg”.
hi thank you for reply that worked a treat all good now to get making some overlay for consoles games … only one other problem I’ve have search high and low every time lakka retroarch reloads it loads the retroarch.cfg not my cfg file change the directory and still removes all my configs many thanks for help on this jonny555
RetroArch will always load retroarch.cfg. If you want a different config to be loaded, you need to name it retroarch.cfg and replace the other one with it.