Editing a specific Atari Jaguar game to use the Phoenix Emulator instead of the Default RetroArch Jaguar core?

[Sandroace]

As the title suggests I am trying to have certain games use the Phoenix emulator instead of the VJ core from RetroArch. The VJ emulator will not run some games that Phoenix does. When I tried to edit the game individually and add the phoenix emulator it defaulted all games and machines to use that emulator so obviously I'm doing something wrong. Any help is much appreciated.

[Retro808]

On 3/12/2022 at 11:45 AM, Sandroace said:

As the title suggests I am trying to have certain games use the Phoenix emulator instead of the VJ core from RetroArch. The VJ emulator will not run some games that Phoenix does. When I tried to edit the game individually and add the phoenix emulator it defaulted all games and machines to use that emulator so obviously I'm doing something wrong. Any help is much appreciated.

Right click a game and choose "Edit"

Go to the Emulation tab and change there in the "Choose an Emulator" drop down list.

Click "OK" when done.

Just changed a few games to make sure there is no issue and the changes only affected the games I edited directly.

[Sandroace]

9 hours ago, Retro808 said:

Right click a game and choose "Edit"

Go to the Emulation tab and change there in the "Choose an Emulator" drop down list.

Click "OK" when done.

Just changed a few games to make sure there is no issue and the changes only affected the games I edited directly.

Thank you for the reply. I swear that is what I originally did but for some reason it changed all emulators. I just tried again and this time it seems to have worked. I'm honestly not sure what I did wrong previously as I followed these steps, clearly I did something wrong. Either way it seems to be working now.

One problem has arisen though and that is all launchbox does it open the emulator but not the game. Not sure if there is something extra that needs to be done within the Phoenix Project emulator?

[Headrush69]

6 hours ago, Sandroace said:

One problem has arisen though and that is all launchbox does it open the emulator but not the game. Not sure if there is something extra that needs to be done within the Phoenix Project emulator?

That emulator is a little different than most and it's not as simple. There are some threads dedicated in this forum for getting these running more easily, just search for them. (Sorry don't have link handy)

[Headrush69]

Just now, Headrush69 said:

That emulator is a little different than most and it's not as simple. There are some threads dedicated in this forum for getting these running more easily, just search for them. (Sorry don't have link handy)

Edit: Thread on Phoenix Launcher

[neil9000]

Not a emulator i have ever used (who cares about Jaguar  ) but if i recall Pheonix doesn't support command line arguments, which is essential for a frontend to launch a game into a emulator, hence the trouble you are seeing with it, id personally recommend the Retroarch core instead personally.

[Sandroace]

4 hours ago, neil9000 said:

Not a emulator i have ever used (who cares about Jaguar  ) but if i recall Pheonix doesn't support command line arguments, which is essential for a frontend to launch a game into a emulator, hence the trouble you are seeing with it, id personally recommend the Retroarch core instead personally.

The problem is the RetroArch VJ core emulation is poor in comparison. The Phoenix Project EMU, emulates the Jag much much better.

[Sandroace]

6 hours ago, Headrush69 said:

Edit: Thread on Phoenix Launcher

Thank You I will check it out.

[Belgarath]

You have to load the game in Phoenix itself first which will add it to it's own phoenix.config.xml

Afterwards it should load from Launchbox.