Same Rom, Different Overlays?

RetroArch Additions Overlays
#1

Hi all, hope I am posting this in the correct place!

Am looking for a bit of advice. Ok, I am using Steam Deck as my emulator machine and am running Emulator Station. I have a folder called Arcade and have all my arcade games in there (duh!) and have applied some of Orionsangel’s awesome overlays. Now, these look awesome from a nostalgia and historical viewpoint but when actually playing a game I would prefer to play the games with largest screen possible. So, I copied the Roms to another arcade-type folder - FBNeo (Final Burn Neo) and I had thought that I could then go in and have the same arcade games without the Overlays for playing purposes. However, when I change the Overlays to the roms in the FBNeo folder it also affects the ones in the Arcade folder. Is there any way I can have same games with separate overlays or is that impossible and have to stick with one way or the other?

#2

AFAIK, it will depend on how you set up your overrides.

Overrides look in config/[corename]/[core/dir/game].cfg, in that order (that is, they are prioritized in order of their granularity). So, if you have a bunch of game-specific overrides for the Orion overlays, those are going to load no matter what, as long as you’re using the same core, since they supersede all other overrides.

So, I think your only real option is to use a different core depending on whether you want to look or play.

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#3

Yeah, sadly thought this would be the case. I can always resize the Overlays a bit to make the screen size a bit bigger. Thanks for the answer though.

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