Command Line Parameters

[Zkyo]

Does the android version support custom command line parameters when launching games? I wanted to try using them to load a different retroarch config override for each platform. I'd prefer to keep most of my roms zipped, and some of the cores don't seem to work if the game is compressed. Launchbox's unzipping works good, but it puts the game in a temporary folder, so content directory overrides don't work. Core overrides don't always work either, since some platforms share cores (genesis plus gx, horizontal/vertical arcade, dolphin). I'd really rather not use game overrides either, as i don't want to deal with having to update a hundred files if i want to change a setting lol.

[faeran]

44 minutes ago, Zkyo said:

Does the android version support custom command line parameters when launching games? I wanted to try using them to load a different retroarch config override for each platform. I'd prefer to keep most of my roms zipped, and some of the cores don't seem to work if the game is compressed. Launchbox's unzipping works good, but it puts the game in a temporary folder, so content directory overrides don't work. Core overrides don't always work either, since some platforms share cores (genesis plus gx, horizontal/vertical arcade, dolphin). I'd really rather not use game overrides either, as i don't want to deal with having to update a hundred files if i want to change a setting lol.

Yes, but it's not necessary to launch a different core that's not listed in our list.

You can download the core, place it into the LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\Cores folder, then inside of the Emulator Settings for that platform, you should see an option to set a custom core. You'll find the core in the list and LaunchBox takes care of the rest.

Curious which core(s) are you referring to here?

[Zkyo]

I'm not trying to change which cores are used, it's Retroarch's configuration files/overrides. I'd like to load a different configuration file for each Launchbox platform. It looks like i can do this with the command line parameters. From that page:

To override this, use retroarch --config customconfig.cfg. If you have some special options you want to store in separate config files, you can use retroarch --config baseconfig.cfg --appendconfig specialconfig.cfg

 

One of the cores that can't load zipped files is swanstation. There were a couple others i had trouble with, but i don't remember them off the top of my head.

[Zkyo]

Actually, never mind, I'll just extract all the games & change the extensions in the platform xml files, that'll solve my problem as i can just use content directory overrides. It's definitely worth keeping them zipped on my main computer (saves ~1TB, it's a massive collection), but kinda pointless on Android, since I'll have far less games and extracting takes much longer. Sorry for bothering you about it.

Edited July 31, 2024 by Zkyo