I can take you even further. This might be interesting for
everyone:
The name of the playlist determines which icons the system and the roms have. Of course the name of the playlist has to be also
in the playlist for every entry on line 6 as usual.
For the icon you need to create one (or copy and rename an existing one) in your assets folder for the icon theme that you're using actively.
Sounds confusing? No problem, let's have a look on an example.
There are not many RetroArch games that can be played with up to 4 players so while keeping all of those games in their playlists where they belong, I
also want to summarize them into an extra playlist for quick access when 3 of my friends are with me to play along.
- I go to the playlist folder (sd:/retroarch/cores/playlists) and create an empty txt file.
- I rename that file to Four Players.lpl but be sure that it's not Four Players.lpl.txt!
- I add entries to it. Remember that a playlist entry always consists of 6 lines (no less!). To avoid mistakes I just copy entries from the other playlists. Of course I only pick those games with 4 player support. My playlist could look like this:
Code:
sd:/roms/Arcade/nwarr.zip
Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge (950316 Euro)
sd:/retroarch/cores/fbalpha2012_libretro.rpx
FB Alpha 2012
DETECT
Four Players.lpl
sd:/roms/Arcade/sfiii3.zip
sd:/roms/Nintendo Entertainment System/Balloon Fight [E].zip#Balloon Fight [E].nes
Balloon Fight (Europe)
sd:/retroarch/cores/nestopia_libretro.rpx
Nestopia
DETECT
Four Players.lpl
sd:/roms/Sony Playstation/Dragon Quest Monsters 1 & 2 Hoshifuri no Yuusha to Bokujou no Nakamatachi [J].cue
Dragon Quest Monsters 1 & 2: Hoshifuri no Yuusha to Bokujou no Nakamatachi (Japan)
sd:/retroarch/cores/mednafen_psx_libretro.dll
Mednafen PSX
DETECT
Four Players.lpl
sd:/roms/Arcade/sfiii.zip
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future (990608 Euro)
sd:/retroarch/cores/fbalpha2012_libretro.rpx
FB Alpha 2012
DETECT
Four Players.lpl
As you can see I have put together a playlist of multiple games from multiple systems:
- Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge (FB Alpha 2012)
- Balloon Fight (NES)
- Dragon Quest Monsters 1 & 2 (PSX)
- Street Fighter III (FB Alpha 2012)
I'm sure you already noticed that these games of course have
no 4 player support.
I was just sitting on my PC here and building a random list of games just to show you how a playlist could look like. Of course I would have to pick the right games once I get serious with my plan of a 4 player playlist.
Note that the line where I wrote
DETECT could also be left empty and that the thing with the
# for Balloon Fight is not really necessary (the path to the zip alone is enough).
Now that I have a playlist of a special selection of games for quick access I want a nice icon as well.
For this you need to understand how RetroArch's new GUI (xmb) works and which
icon theme you are using right now.
By default it should be "monochrome" but you can look it up (or even change it) by heading to:
Settings -> User Interface -> Appearance -> Menu Icon Theme
Once you're aware of your current icon theme, go to
sd:/retroarch/media/xmb and open the folder for your current theme and then the png folder.
For Monochrome it's:
sd:/retroarch/media/xmb/monochrome/png
There are png images named in the same pattern as your playlist (lpl) files.
That means I can either create a new one (while taking care that it has the same resolution as the others) or copy an existing one and rename it to
Four Players.png. Of course I could open it up with Photoshop to write something like "4 P" on it to make it a bit nicer.
That's the icon you see for your playlist when you scroll to the right in your RetroArch main menu.
Inside a playlist there's another important icon which is displayed left to the game's name (for each game).
For Game Boy games it's a cartridge for example.
This icon has to be named as the playlist as well but with an additional "
-content" to it. In my case it would be:
Four Players-content.png.
That's all. Let me know if it works.
