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    overlays override not working

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    • mituM
      mitu Global Moderator
      last edited by

      The overrides are stored in ~/.config/retroarch/config, not in the /opt/retropie/configs. Look in that folder for any core/game overrides for the core you're using.

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      • ExarKunIvE
        ExarKunIv @mitu
        last edited by

        @mitu so i got in to the FB Alpha through the way you told me and there is a bunch of .CFG files for all the games that point to the correct path for FBA to display the over lay.

        which is what i want to have when im play a FBA game. not sure what else to look for other then i will just have to deal with it as is

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        • mituM
          mitu Global Moderator @ExarKunIv
          last edited by mitu

          @ExarKunIv I don't fully understand - you want just 1 overlay for the whole FBA system and RetroArch loads each game with its overlay (and you don't want that) ? Or ... ?

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          • ExarKunIvE
            ExarKunIv @mitu
            last edited by

            @mitu Im good with what FBA is doing, no problem there
            I would like to have just 1 overlay for NeoGeo, but they both use the same core. so when i start a NeoGeo game the over lay for the game will pull up not the single Neogeo over lay i would like

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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator @ExarKunIv
              last edited by

              @ExarKunIv I see. So you have the same games in both fba and neogeo folders ? How did those games get personalized overlays ?

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator
                last edited by

                Try adding

                auto_overrides_enable = "false"
                

                to the neogeo system's retroarch.cfg, maybe this will stop the automatic loading of game overrides. The bad part is that any game overrides will not work :( for this system.

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                • ExarKunIvE
                  ExarKunIv @mitu
                  last edited by

                  @mitu ok i will give a shot.

                  and yes i have the same game in both folders. i only have a few in NeoGeo. like metal slug, etc.

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                  • ExarKunIvE
                    ExarKunIv @mitu
                    last edited by

                    @mitu said in overlays override not working:

                    auto_overrides_enable = "false"

                    Works great.
                    thanks for that

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                    • mituM
                      mitu Global Moderator @ExarKunIv
                      last edited by mitu

                      @ExarKunIv Just be aware of the limitation - no game override will load automatically in the neogeo core.
                      Another option would be to copy the .cfg override files from the RetroArch's config folder into the fba ROMs folder. RetroPie will automatically load the .cfg file next to the ROM, so the effects will be similar and your overrides folder for lr-fbalpha will be clean.
                      The downside is that you'll have the .cfg files in the ROMs folder.

                      EDIT: I think RetroPie will load romname.zip.cfg, while the override will only need romname.cfg, so the alternative is not going to work without renaming the .cfg files.

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                      • ExarKunIvE
                        ExarKunIv @mitu
                        last edited by

                        @mitu ok

                        i dont have anything different with the neogeo core other then the overlay. so adding the line to disable override is going to work for me.

                        but still knowing a different way is good to know just in case

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