So im doing some house cleaning, and part of that was removing all core associations and setting a default core to my manually created playlists from way back when.
I ended up having some trouble with the recorder wanting to default to an old path that didnt exist anymore when looking for my custom.cfg for that.
I notepad++'d the path and found the relevant entry, but I also came across the playlist_cores = entry which was ultimately chock full of DETECT;DETECT;DETECT and somewhere in the list, the absolute path I’m referring to that was incorrect.
I first changed the path to what it is now, then i realized if the rest are DETECT, theres no reason for that one not to be, so I went to change it.
Then i began counting the “DETECT” entries and there were less than I have playlists to begin with.
So I backed up my cfg and deleted the entire line expecting it to be recreated. It wasnt.
I then removed all the DETECT entries so it was just blank playlist_cores = "" and retroarch removed that itself upon startup.
So i tried adding back a single DETECT to it. Retroarch did not remove it at that point.
Ultimately im trying to find out what created this line, and if i need it, before i purge the backed up retroarch.cfg and move on with my life 