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Themaister / RetroArch-Phoenix

Simple GUI frontend for RetroArch using Phoenix
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Start with no ROM #12

Open inactive123 opened 11 years ago

inactive123 commented 11 years ago

Certain emulators/games engines (such as ScummVM and VICE) require booting with no input ROM at all.

With the ROM filtering added recently, there is no way anymore to launch RetroArch with a core and a 'dummy file'. Instead, we should add a button that will allow us to boot a core without any ROMs fed.

Also - there should be a 'boot in RGUI' option as well - this would launch RetroArch with RGUI at startup just like the console ports.

Themaister commented 11 years ago

Why would they require booting with no input ROM? They implement their own file browsing or something, and it's impossible to load something immediately?

If they require a dummy rom, valid_extensions should be NULL already, and any rom will be allowed in Phoenix at least.

inactive123 commented 11 years ago

Yes, SCUMMVM has a built-in menu that requires you to select a particular dir and based on that it will detect which game it's going to add. AFAIK there is no commandline option to 'feed it' a game, or if there is, it's not commonly used.

You can compile from it here -

https://github.com/libretro/scummvm

go to backends/platform/libretro/build and type make.