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« on: October 05, 2017, 02:28:41 AM »
Hello! I was trying to find the best way to go about and add Super Game Boy to RetroFE, but I've run into a few problems. One is RetroFE specific, and another is sort of a Frontend/ROM set general problem.
RetroFE specific: What I did was to grep out those games in the GB and GBC No-Intro rom set that say "SGB Enhanced", and populated them into a "Nintendo Game Boy.sub" and a "Nintendo Game Boy Color.sub", and then I also specified in the settings.conf that I want to use a special "Nintendo Super Game Boy" launcher which specifies "mame64 supergb -cart...". But I see now that by using a GB sub or a GBC sub, RetroFE wants to use the GB or GBC launchers respectively. Is there anyway that I can get RetroFE to override the launcher in the case of SGB? Maybe this would require another setting in settings.conf, like "Launcher override=(true/false)"
ROM set general: This is more a problem that I think would affect every frontend. I'm using the No-Intro rom sets. As mentioned above, No-Intro designates the SGB titles with a special "(SGB Enhanced)" tag. At least it does these days, I don't know if that particularly new or not. So the version of Donkey Kong I want to use is "Donkey Kong (World) (Rev A) (SGB Enhanced)". However, it looks like that "(SGB Enhanced)" tag is not supported in any of Hyperspin's or EmuMovie's art files. The boxes, screenshots, videos, HyperList XML, etc are all called "Donkey Kong (World) (Rev A)". Is there any clever solution to this, or do I have to try and strip that tag from all my ROM's file names?
RetroFE bug: I notice that quite frequently, when I go into Arcade, I'm forced into my "Favorites" play list. But I haven't designated any favorites, so it's just one game, A.D. 2083. I know that I can press F1 or F2 to get back to "All Games," but I have no idea why RetroFE sends me to Favorites in the first place. I think it has to do with moments when I accidentally launch RetroFE twice before it actually initializes, but I don't know for sure. Just a pet peeve.
Thanks very much for any help you can provide with these matters.