maabus Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 I would like to switch some of my roms over to the mame software list. One of the systems I'm trying to use is WonderSwan Color. The mame software list roms are zipped in .bin format. When I try to run retroarch it does not suggest the (beetle cygin) core. If i extract the .bin file and change the extension to .wsc, and run retroarch it will suggest the core. Is there any way to tell the core to allow .bin files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundogak Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 (edited) 54 minutes ago, maabus said: I would like to switch some of my roms over to the mame software list. One of the systems I'm trying to use is WonderSwan Color. The mame software list roms are zipped in .bin format. When I try to run retroarch it does not suggest the (beetle cygin) core. If i extract the .bin file and change the extension to .wsc, and run retroarch it will suggest the core. Is there any way to tell the core to allow .bin files? You can force load BIN files via LB it is just through the RA frontend that you won't see non-WS extensions. Just drag and drop the BIN file in LB and then associate with the WonderSwan platform and have Retroarch setup as the emulator. LB will launch as a command line and it will load a BIN file even though the core via the RA front end will not see it since looking for different extensions. You can also load the MAME zip files the same way but you would need to make sure to check the extract rom box. Then LB will extract first and send to RA as BIN. If this causes issues with your other RA setups then either setup another RA emulator instance or use the first method by extracting first and setting to point BIN versus ZIP. Otherwise, no, you cannot force the core in the RA content loader view to see anything that is not a core valid extension. However, via command line (i.e., LB method above), RA will try and load whatever you tell it to since the content view restricting extensions is not applicable. Of course you have to be sure the file you are trying to send is valid or obviously won't work regardless. Edited November 23, 2020 by sundogak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maabus Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 Thanks sundogak! I was able to get it working correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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