Running Windows Games as Shortcut via RetroArch

RetroArch Windows devices
#1

Title says it all, but for clarification…

I’d like to have all my games show up in RA’s menu. Is it possible to run windows games from the RetroArch menu?

I would prefer they run within the RetroArch window, just as the emulations do, but maybe this is expecting too much?

I can run Broken Sword 2.5 from within the menu and it is even kept within the window as I specified ScummVM as the core. But this does not work for Moment of Silence or Black Mirror 1or2.

Thanks

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#2

No, RetroArch is not a launcher, so it can’t fire off external programs. It is a frontend for libretro cores, so when you load a core, it becomes the game/emulator/whatever. That is, it’s not a separate emulator running in a RetroArch window, but this this means it can’t run things that aren’t ported to the libretro API.

#3

Ok thanks for confirming. Shame it can’t do both though!