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Weird question about creating game-specific menus in EmulationStation

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    Ikyrus
    last edited by Ikyrus 11 May 2016, 14:12 5 Nov 2016, 14:10

    So I had this idea that I'd like t o create a few menus in EmulationStation for specific game series. For example, if I wanted to put every CastleVania game (from all the different systems it has had iterations on) into one CastleVania menu. Now I know I could put all the CastleVania games into their own ROM folder and create an entry in the es_systems.cfg pointing to it and have it recognize all of the necessary extensions and then add all of the appropriate emulators to the emulators.cfg file in a matching config folder.

    BUT...

    I would like to also have the different CastleVania games appear in their respective console menus, as well, without having separate instances of the ROMs (having, say, two copies of Dracula X Chronicles for PSP would take a heafty amount of space on the SD Card). So basically I want two different menus to point to the same ROM file.

    My question is two-part:

    1. Can you create a path in an es_systems.cfg entry that links directly to a particular ROM?

    Example:
    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/castlevania/castlevania 2.nes</path>

    1. Failing that, if I put all of the CastleVania games into their own folder could I then add multiple ROM paths to the existing entries in es_systems.cfg?

    Example:
    <system>
    <name>nes</name>
    <fullname>Nintendo Entertainment System</fullname>
    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes</path>
    <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/castlevania</path>

    <extension>.nes .zip .NES .ZIP</extension>
    <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS nes %ROM%</command>
    <platform>nes</platform>
    <theme>nes</theme>
    </system>

    I understand this may just not be doable, at least in the manner I desire, but I thought I'd ask before I go monkeying. I am also open to any alternative solutions. Thanks!

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