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This may not be at all feasible but I was wondering if it'd be possible to add an option to save settings for each specific game? I've been messing around with the Turbo mode (seems to help quite a bit on certain scenes in Grandia; like from 22 fps to 30fps even) but on some games it totally borks it (Thousand Arms, for example). It's kind of a pita to have to change it every time I start one of these games, so I was curious if there was a way to make them specific for the game, so that once it's set, you don't have to mess with it again?

Thanks!

There is currently no way to do that, which i know off.

I think you should be able to do it by setting up a .mgl file with a setname tag, similar the one here that allows saving different settings for Master System and Game Gear. You have to then make a new directory for the game files (/games/psxturbo or whatever you call it) and probably the bios and stuff as well so it’s a bit of fiddling especially if you want different ones for individual games. It’s also possible to specify which game to boot in the .mgl but I haven’t played around with that myself - I’m posting from my phone and haven’t tried this for PSX but I think it should work.

Edit: not sure if the PSX core supports this though, given the dev says he doesn’t know of a way to do it maybe not.

Edit again: I tried this out and it’s working for me, though not very elegant. If you just want to have two versions of the core with different settings, go with a file in _console/ named “PSX alt.mgl” (or whatever name you want to give it, the file name minus .mgl will appear in the list) containing:
And make a directory in games/ named with the same name you’ve put in the setname tag. That directory will need the boot roms and whatever disk images/sbi files/whatever you need for the games you want to run.

If you want per-game settings, add this line to the file (inside the description tags):
And change the setname to the name of the game. You’ll need a directory matching the setname containing the bios and the disk image for each game you make one of these for, so it’ll make a mess of your games/ directory if you do a lot of them. The path in the file tag is relative to the games/setname directory.

Wow, it's cool you figured out a way to do that. Definitely more involved than I imagined but I might give this a try soon, just to see how it goes.

Thanks!