Thanks, both - it turns out it is a quirk of the emulator and doesn't like it if there is an extension on particular types of roms. A .sh solution has worked though! Thanks again.
@mitu got it. Thank you for confirming the change in this specific behavior.
I can live with that as i am using "favorites" within ES and dont have to browse the gamelists everytime.
@gvfo Yea, I forgot the name. It is the ps2 compilation orochi saga, but the japanese version has 95,96,97 with arranged cd audio.
Yea, the load times in the neocd emulators are fast, but the music restarting was always a long time annoyance. I do appreciate that it exists, though.
@ChoccyHobNob unfortunately not that I know of. There has been some work done on enhanced filtering with a SQLite backend and system order may be part of that but I'm not sure where that's at, it's a large change and may be a while before implemented