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Needed both Genesis & Megadrive System appear in main screen

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    LorThe3rd
    last edited by 28 May 2017, 12:53

    Hi guys , is there a way to have both Genesis & Megadrive System appear in main screen? Notice that both Megadrive & Genesis folder are symlinked.

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      RWM79
      last edited by 30 May 2017, 18:50

      What if you edit your es_systems.cfg to show something like this:

      <system>
         <name>megadrive</name>
         <fullname>Sega Mega Drive</fullname>
         <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/megadrive</path>
         <extension>.7z .smd .bin .gen .md .sg .zip .7Z .SMD .BIN .GEN .MD .SG .ZIP</extension>
         <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ megadrive %ROM%</command>
         <platform>megadrive</platform>
         <theme>megadrive</theme>
       </system>
      
       <system>
         <name>genesis</name>
         <fullname>Sega Genesis</fullname>
         <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/segag</path>
         <extension>.7z .smd .bin .gen .md .sg .zip .7Z .SMD .BIN .GEN .MD .SG .ZIP</extension>
         <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ megadrive %ROM%</command>
         <platform>genesis</platform>
         <theme>genesis</theme>
       </system>
      

      Note here that the Sega Genesis has a different non-symlinked folder that you would need to created called segag or whatever you wanted to call it...

      This seems like it would be something that should be super easy to test. I'm not at home, and I only run the Genesis, but it seems like this is all you should need to do to make it work. Really the megadrive and genesis internals are all the same its just the theme that is switching to show one or the other...

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        LorThe3rd @RWM79
        last edited by 31 May 2017, 01:38

        @RWM79 Many thanks , tried, it work like a charm!

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          AlexMurphy Banned @LorThe3rd
          last edited by 31 May 2017, 01:50

          @LorThe3rd Nope. It worked like science. A charm would involve you doing a dance then rubbing a potato on your cat at midnight. Then burying it on a full moon. That's not a charm, that's a list of instructions your computer understands that you entered correctly.
          Sorry, my autism is playing up this evening.

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            LorThe3rd @AlexMurphy
            last edited by 31 May 2017, 01:52

            @AlexMurphy indeed, lol ...

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              AlexMurphy Banned @LorThe3rd
              last edited by 31 May 2017, 01:54

              @LorThe3rd Yes. Indeed. I'm harmless really. No malice in me at all. I'm just misunderstood. Like Pablo Picasso or Pol Pot.

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                RWM79 @LorThe3rd
                last edited by 31 May 2017, 03:35

                @LorThe3rd Hey, nice! Glad it worked.

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