[Feature request] - M3U support

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atari800 3.1.0 for libretro/libco WIP

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[Feature request] - M3U support #66

Open TiBeN opened 3 years ago

TiBeN commented 3 years ago

Hi,

This core does not seems to support M3U playlist files (like other computers emulators Hatari, P-UAE, Caprice32 etc.) for multi-disk games

Would be great if atari800 core supports this feature too.

Darknior commented 3 years ago

for sure, i also have some games in multi disc ... loading them with menu is not really fine. M3U can help a lot to make using Atari 800 easier to use for children :)

mgtroyas commented 3 years ago

Nothing more to add, I hope it'll be added eventually.

Edit: I've studied the original emulator, there are two options: 1) Disk sets are like m3u files, and are natively supported. You can load them from the Disk Management menu. But I haven't found a command line option to pass them as a launch parameter. 2) Emulator allows multiple images at launch simply as space separated command line parameters, it will mount each image on a different disk drive. The m3u file could be parsed on launch by Retroarch and passed this way to the core.

veganvelociraptor commented 2 years ago

The VICE core has some added features to its m3u support described here: https://docs.libretro.com/library/vice/#extra-m3u-features

This has been included in a non core-specific feature request I wish was implemented by more cores: https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/10299

msrecko commented 1 year ago

Hi, do we have any news regarding support for multidisc games using m3u files?