Sorry to bring up an old post like this, but to complement the solution above, you can set your system to look up for both systems (CD and not CD) but not others in es_systems.cfg : <platform>pcengine pcenginecd</platform>.
I found that from source code but in no documentation, so there is no guaranty it will keep working in case of future code change.
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