mame works fine with different directories the only issue you will have is with scrappers if you know how to do this though youll be fine. You can have a 2003 and 2010 dir with the roms all you have to do it pick the right emulator when launching

All Another update... Scraped quite a few systems and things are going well. Just a quick note tho... PSX ROMS that are in .chd format will not scrape for me however .pbp will. You can use a program called CHDMAN which will convert the .chd file back to .bin/.cue files. There is a good tutorial on YouTube. Once you have scraped them as .cue files then use Notepad++ to change the .cue extension with .chd with the find & replace all command by pressing CTRL-F. Works a charm. KR CCF

You can load as much as you want, but u will have a visual glitch in mune if your chossen theme miss this system, so the most completed theme i tasted out there is Supersweet them : https://github.com/RetroHursty69/es-theme-supersweet And uniflyered theme : https://github.com/RetroHursty69/es-theme-uniflyered Also art book , is one of awsome classy theme which i really love and if it miss a system you have it bult to use a really cool font to look like that it's ok , and you can add any missing theme easly . And belive me iam really have a huge collection of systems, so i always become sad when a lovely theme miss a system

Honestly there is enough information out there about installing retropie or some other front end on a PC that the process is pretty easy and spelled out even for someone as tech stupid as me. Given the price vs performance of relatively old and cheap PCs vs a new pi or even a pi4 for that matter, if I had it to do over again I would just go the PC route especially after figuring out that what some people define as “acceptable” performance for emulators like dream cast and N64 is an entire galaxy removed from what I would consider even playable. So really it all comes down to your specific needs. If your trying to emulate simple games >25-30 years old then a pi3 or 3b+ should be able to do it and honestly there are even exceptions to that depending on the game. If it’s after the last two decades just go PC. But really, sit down and make a list of about 10-20 games that you basically can’t live without, research the hardware needs for them and go with the strongest one.

Unfortunately there isn't a centralized list by model of system - most of the system/platforms supported found in the docs are supported, some of them are specific for PC (Gamecube, Wii, PS2 for instance) and are marked as such.

@hiulit said in Runcommand shows same name for different emulators: @mitu Could it be possible to launch a ROM without asking which emulator to use? I mean, when I select a gb game, can I know it's a gb game and consequently launch its respective emulator? Sure, you can do that, but you'll have to basically add each game to the emulators.cfg and specify its emulator, just like when normally choosing the emulator through the Runcommand launch menu. Runcommand does not have a 'match by wildcard', but a 'match by name' based on the emulators.cfg file. The downside is that each game must be explicitly added with its emulator - you can do this through your script, but any subsequent game added in the new system will have to be processed again by your script. Again, much easier would be to create a Collection and this will automatically taken care of by Emulationstation (i.e. launch the correct emulator). You're basically re-inventing a custom Collection from scratch, but trying to shoehorn it in the Runcommand launch sequence. Can I have more than one default in the same emulators.cfg? No, that's not possible.

@mitu I think that is in the end my only option, if I want a single Arcade menu option. I really wanted avoid this.

@kinduff I gotta say, it's a very intriguing use of ES. I commend your efforts.

@pjft and to complete this ... I have collections that are named "RetroAchievements" and "RA - Battle Bugs". The Battle Bugs is for challenging games or for the Monthly Random Game introduced here (Currently Mario RPG). These collections in combination with a small script Automated Switchable RetroAchievements make an automatic connect/disconnect to the RA server possible ;) So you all see custom collections is a milestone in the ES development. Thank you pjft :D

@kap5ule using a third party image is a discouraged action here.

Guys Could i use something similar to use 2 different bezels ofr gb/gbc as at the minute i am doing it per core but both are using the same bezel :( thanks

thank you very much!

My favourite is probably an SNES emulator I came across a while back. I think the retropie is the best way to host it, but recently I've been looking at some alternatives to Raspberry Pi: https://www.1and1.com/digitalguide/server/know-how/raspberry-pi-alternatives-single-board-computers-to-check-out/ out of interest and I wonder how well they might handle an SNES or even a PSX emulator. But as far as the retropie goes, it hosts the SNES emulator like a champ; the frame rate is great and everything ran smoothly. I just wish I could remember the name of it. When I do I'll add it below.

@capeman I didn't realize it incorporated light gun. That makes more sense.

Its been a while since i implemented this and everything works just fine. I wonder though, would it be technically possible to load a different splash video or splash screen depending on the loaded es_system file? For example, for console games a splash video and for arcade games a different splash video.

@darknior That was just a joke :) Yes the method from meleu and me needs heavy handwork. I hope that pjft and Zigurana can do an integreated system. For myself I'm happy with my coding - I often did not challenged in the mame rows because I forgot the week winner title :(

@dankcushions I figured it had to have been asked many times before. I personally merge all the sega systems together. It was just the inconsistency that made me ask. both are cart systems with cd add-ons but one is separate, one is merged. You could argue that the supergrafx was a separate system not just an add-on like the 32x but with only 5 games who wants to split that out! There is one problem with merging though. sselphs scraper doesn't find sega cd titles or pce cd titles if they are in the megadrive or pcengine folders so they have to be scraped manually, the built in scraper doesn't find them either (the system is part of the search criteria and it's the wrong system).