I'm in the same boat as you, but there's nothing wrong with having more options.Yes, I'm sorry but who actually needs them?
People who use emulators have their roms already classified in their HDD by system in different folders. This playlist system looks great for someone having a mix of roms for different systems in the same folder. But honestly who does that? And besides that why doesn't it pick all the roms inside the folder??? Who needs validation against a server (after 4 hours adding my snes roms, I found half of the roms where not listed and that all the roms inside 7zip folders where spread there making it really hard to navigate)
I know retroarch lets you navigate through your folders and then pick a rom (and it supports 7zip which is great for people having full romsets). But then you won't see any thumbnail at all. Not to mention it never remembers the path where you were making it really annoying to continue navigating
If it were me I wouldn't spend more time trying to fix a system that just doesn't work. I would focus on the file explorer. This is how the great GX emulators on the Wii worked and we were very happy about it
This of course is just my opinion, but I see people constantly complaining about all this (good luck making thumbnails being displayed, I almost cried the day I finally managed to do it) and I think it could be improved in lots of ways by just giving up the playlists idea
1 playlist buddy linkCan someone guide into making a playlist (list) for my SNES, NES , Genesis, GBA, GBC games ?
I tried to understand the OP instructions but the link to Playlist Buddy is not available and I couldn't find which options to pick under "Online Updater".
I have all the NA Roms, so I have alot of games.
Just do what it says in the first post Once you input the correct paths its pretty straight forward.How to use when you're using different cores?
But it says "You can generate your list using Online Updater, though this is prone to fail if you have a large number of games." where is that option?Just do what it says in the first post Once you input the correct paths its pretty straight forward.
You can access the online updater through Retroarch itself but Retroarch's built in playlist generator has always been spotty for me.. Stick with Playlist Buddy, that's what we all use hereBut it says "You can generate your list using Online Updater, though this is prone to fail if you have a large number of games." where is that option?
Thanks for the Playlist Buddy link.
You can access the online updater through Retroarch itself but Retroarch's built in playlist generator has always been spotty for me.. Stick with Playlist Buddy, that's what we all use here
My mistake.. to create playlists through Retroarch and select "Import Content" (I haven't used Retroach for a while) it's the sixth tab over when you first boot Retroarch (looks like a [+] symbol)Where is the option to generate that playlist...
I can read "Online Updater"... but none of the option in there are named "Playlist" or something that seems related to that.
My mistake.. to create playlists through Retroarch and select "Import Content" (I haven't used Retroach for a while) it's the sixth tab over when you first boot Retroarch (looks like a [+] symbol)
Choose Scan Directory and browse to you desired rom folder (but again.. its hit and miss)
Then use the Playlist buddy tool..Ok, I did that and It didn't work.
Did you put your playlists in the correct folder? SD:/Retroarch/Cores/Playlists ?I copied the playlists and thumbnails to my SD card and nothing show up in RetroArch, can anyone help me understand what I'm doing wrong.
I used the same setting as the first post except I copied my game to a different folder on my PC first then copied both folder to my retroarch folder and set the paths in the Direction setting.
Did you put your playlists in the correct folder? SD:/Retroarch/Cores/Playlists ?
You can set which playlist loads which core through Settings>Playlists From there you can select what you want .No, but I changed to path in the settings to point to it.
"then copied both folder to my retroarch folder and set the paths in the Direction setting"
You should read my post before proposing solution, lol
I see my created playlists now, it must have been a bug, all I did was restart it.
Now i encountered another problem. only my SNES games ask me to run the proper core.
All other playlists (NES, GBA, GBC, Genesis) load the 10 first cores but not proper ones.
I can load those games fine if I don't go through playlists.
Do you know why all XMB icons are a gribbish icon?You can set which playlist loads which core through Settings>Playlists From there you can select what you want .
I dont use thumbnails so I'm not sure why they arent showing up (probably need to be in the correct path?) but for the gibberish icons, I think you need to rename your playlist files to the correct names.. like this. Example your Nintendo playlist.lpl needs to be named "Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System.lpl"Do you know why all XMB icons are a gribbish icon?
Also none of my thumbnails are showing up, it's only the gribbish icon on everything.
I dont use thumbnails so I'm not sure why they arent showing up (probably need to be in the correct path?) but for the gibberish icons, I think you need to rename your playlist files to the correct names.. like this. Example your Nintendo playlist.lpl needs to be named "Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System.lpl"
see here for the correct names....
https://gbatemp.net/attachments/retro_name-png.96634/