Any way to change the configuration file of Xenia per game?

[Nocta]

Hi,

Xenia's settings are all handled in the xenia(-canary).config.toml file and they need to be tweaked for some games, for example:

- if you switch between disc and XBLA games you need to switch between license_mask = 1/0

- for CAVE Games, you need to set gpu_allow_invalid_fetch_constants = true bu tis not necessarily true for other games

 

Is there any way to have a per file config via Launchbox?

 

Thanks guys!

Edited June 16, 2021 by Nocta

[DeadVoivod]

Is that not possible in Xenia emulator itself? 

I know that in RPCS3 you can custom configure your games, thus when LB launches them it uses that configuration. 

[Nocta]

3 hours ago, DeadVoivod said:

Is that not possible in Xenia emulator itself? 

I know that in RPCS3 you can custom configure your games, thus when LB launches them it uses that configuration. 

It is possible yet it's not recommended due to the implementation: https://github.com/xenia-project/xenia/issues/1707

3 hours ago, zugswang said:

Just create different Xenia emulators for each config and point to the games accordingly.

I myself have about 10 different versions of Xenia for this reason, luckily the size of Xenia is tiny so not much space taken up.

That's what I ended up doing also. May I ask what are your different config and for which games? I could be really handy to have a centralised place where we share our settings. I personally have one config for XBLA games, one for CAVE games and a "vanilla" one but I'm only getting started ;D

For CAVE Games
gpu_allow_invalid_fetch_constants = true

----------------------------------------
For XBLA Games
license_mask = 1 

 

Edit: someone brought an even better solution on the github thread:

Quote

You can make separate configs and make shortcuts for each game ala xenia.exe --config gameconfig.toml, no need for multiple folders

 

Edited June 17, 2021 by Nocta

[itsmeblake]

Has anyone found a solution to this?

Launchbox default method works, but fails to use the custom config file unique to the game = \path\emulator.exe "\path\game.iso"

Setting Xenia Manager as the emulator works and launches the game with the proper config file but LB/BB doesn't support this = "\path\xenia manager.exe" "Game title"

The problem is launchbox wants a rom in the path and the "application command-line params" cannot be used unless a rom is specified.

The shortcut fix described above does not work and making an emulator for each game crazy. No way I am the only one with this problem. I may end up writing a powershell script to launch 360 games if nobody has any ideas.

Edited October 22 by itsmeblake

[itsmeblake]

This was my answer. Go to "edit game > emulation", check the "use custom command line params" box then use

--config "\path\title.config.toml"

All of the actual config can be done in notepad and/or xenia manager. Unfortunately you will have to do this for every game. I hope this helps the next person.

[GadgetGeek]

On 10/22/2024 at 7:11 PM, itsmeblake said:

This was my answer. Go to "edit game > emulation", check the "use custom command line params" box then use

--config "\path\title.config.toml"

All of the actual config can be done in notepad and/or xenia manager. Unfortunately you will have to do this for every game. I hope this helps the next person.

That solved my problems. Thank you so much 😊 Now I can create a separate config file for a game if the default config file doesn't work or needs tweaking. Much appreciated.