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RetroArch can have a universal launcher for all systems.

RetroArch.conf
executable = M:\Emulators\RetroArch\retroarch.exe
arguments = "%ITEM_FILEPATH%" -L "cores\%ITEM_COLLECTION_NAME%.dll" --appendconfig "config\%ITEM_COLLECTION_NAME%.cfg|config\%ITEM_COLLECTION_NAME%\%ITEM_NAME%.cfg"
Short Tutorial:

• Download a fresh copy of RetroArch
• Open RetroAch, don't load any cores yet, and set ALL global config options
• Exit RetroArch
• Open your RetroArch Folder and the open "retroarch.cfg" with any text editor
• Set "config_save_on_exit" to "false"
• Save "retroarch.cfg" and close it
• Open RetroArch again download core of choice and load it, load a game too, set ALL core specific options
• Go to "Quick Menu" and click "Save Core Override"
• If you have a game with specific options load it, set ALL game specific options
• Go to "Quick Menu" and click "Save Game Override"
• Repeat steps 9 & 10 for additional games
• Exit RetroArch
• Open your RetroArch folder again and navigate to your cores folder
• Inside you should have corename.dll rename the core dll to match your collection name
• Now navigate to your config folder. Inside there will be a folder named after the core in question. Rename it to match your collection name
• Navigate inside that folder and rename corename.cfg to match your collection name
• Move that file into the base config dir and leave the game configs where they are at
• Done. Repeat steps 7 through 17 for new collections

I tested this, but I don't have an issue on my setup. Could you see if you can reproduce the issue in a smaller game setup, and then zip it up, and send it to me? My include.txt isn't sorted either, and my list.menuSort = true, but both the first game in the include.txt as well as the first game on the sorted list show art as normal.

It was because the Encoding on my include.txt was set to UTF-8 with BOM. I tested this with list.menuSort set to true and false, also with a sorted and unsorted list. Removing the byte-order mark fixed the problem.

That is silly. You would have to click on pinball fx2 twice. Once to enter the menu then once to launch the game. I'll just launch it from the main menu like I want to. Boom job done.

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Here is a better example Pieter. Sorry they are phone pics, but I don't have anything installed on this pc except RetroFE.

One picture is of mame just for reference. The other is Pinball FX2 which is not a collection, just an executable. You can see the lack of art and info in the bottom box.


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I guess I'm not sure how to give an example? I use the default Aeon Nox layout. All collections in the main menu show system art and info.conf in the bottom box. I am launching Pinball FX2 from the main menu all artwork works fine except there is no way to display system art for executables. I don't know how else to explain it.

also now the frontend s not playing nice with 005.zip for mame. Artwork will not show and the game won't launch. RetroFE complains the file doesn't exist, but I can assure you it does.
[2017-04-23 17:29:09] [WARNING] [Launcher] Checking to see if "M:\Roms/MAME\005.zip" exists  [No]
[2017-04-23 17:29:09] [WARNING] [Launcher] Could not find any files with the name "005" in folder "M:\Roms/MAME\
Edit:
Ok it has nothing to do with "005". It is affecting whatever rom is listed first in include.txt. No art is displayed and the game can't be found in the rom dir even though it does exist

Edit 2:
The problem happens when "list.menuSort = true" and the include.txt itself is not sorted. I sorted my include.txt and the problem stopped.

Nicely done. Playlist issue fixed and input issue seems to be fixed as well. Thank you

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my all games logo is fine. If i cycle through my playlists back to all games the logo displays correctly.