One more SNES for japanese games only?

[Sysmatic]

Hello everyone :)

I think the title says it all but I will explain anyway.

I want to separate japanese ROMs from the western ones and run them by another SNES emulator option in the emulator menu.
(Same emulator that reads another ROMs-dir (like "j-snes"))

Is that possible and if 'Yes!', how?

I'm using Linux Mint 21 btw.

Thank you very much for your help and sorry for my bad english.

[G30FF]

@Sysmatic It's absolutely possible. But you'd need to make sure your theme supports it, or edit your theme to include your new system.

1. Duplicate /opt/retropie/configs/snes to a new folder, like /opt/retropie/configs/j-snes.
2. Copy your /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg file to /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg. This will allow you to make changes to your system list without having them overwritten every time you update RetroPie.
3. Edit your new es_systems.cfg and duplicate the SNES system tag. Rename the system name to j-snes.
4. Create the folder /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/j-snesand drop your games in it
5. Restart Emulationstation

That should do the trick.

[Darksavior]

@Sysmatic Here's the section I added to myes_systems.cfg. You still have to follow @G30FF 's steps. Some themes might support sfcso I suggest renaming j-snes to sfc to stay consistent.
<system>
<name>sfc</name>
<fullname>Super Famicom</fullname>
<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/sfc</path>
<extension>.bin .smc .sfc .fig .swc .mgd .zip .BIN .SMC .SFC .FIG .SWC .MGD .ZIP</extension>
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS sfc %ROM%</command>
<platform>sfc</platform>
<theme>sfc</theme>
</system>

[Sysmatic]

Hello and thank you guys!

I just did everything as described and tried the following themes:
-carbon
-carbon-2021(-xxx)
-clean-look
-simple(-dark)
But there is still GBA/N64/SNES/RETROPIE only in the first menu.
Do I have to change any settings in RetroPie to enable SFC?

I will try to solve it on my own but I won't be successful I'm sure :D

[dankcushions]

@Sysmatic have you placed any roms in the new roms directory? have you rebooted/restarted es?

if so please show us an example game (full file name and path), and the section of your es_systems.cfg

[Sysmatic]

@dankcushions
Hello and sorry for my late replies. It's because of work...
And yeah...ehm...I was very sure that I already moved the roms to that folder. But I actually didn't. :D

Now it's fine! Thanks again to everyone.

One last thing:
How to add an logo to the emu-menu and roms-list?

[G30FF]

@Sysmatic You'll have to modify your theme to support it, or use a theme that already includes the custom system you've created.

[Sysmatic]

@G30FF
Alright, that was easy.
Just had to add the .svg-files.
I just found a file with black fonts. It is invisible in the gameslist but...nah...

@Darksavior
<command>es_launch_ra snes9x_libretro.so %ROM%</command>
don't work.
Had to change it to
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS snes %ROM%</command>
Now everything is fine.
Thanks again guys!!!

[Darksavior]

@Sysmatic Apologies, it was the wrong file. I've edited my post.