Make a Second Arcade Folder?

ajmartin · Unread post by **ajmartin** » Tue Dec 27, 2022 5:42 pm

Hello,

I would like to make a second Arcade folder like "Fav Arcade Games" Copy my favorite arcade games to it. How do I do that and have it displayed along with the Arcade, console and computer folders?

Thanks,

Alan

jca · Unread post by **jca** » Tue Dec 27, 2022 8:35 pm

Folders which are displayed in the menu start with _, may be it is the way to do it.

jca · Unread post by **jca** » Tue Dec 27, 2022 8:42 pm

Be careful with updates:
I would leave all arcade mras in _Arcade in order to have the updates and even if you removed them they will be put back by update except if you explicitly exclude them.
In the _Fav Arcade Games directory I would put symlinks to the corresponding mras in _Arcade which mean you will always be using the most up to date mras.

jca · Unread post by **jca** » Tue Dec 27, 2022 9:16 pm

You could also put _Fav Arcade Games in _Arcade, it wouldn't appear on the main menu but in the submenu of Arcade.

ajmartin · Unread post by **ajmartin** » Tue Dec 27, 2022 11:29 pm

Oh, I like this last suggestion. Moments ago my back up .img file completed copying to my new SD card. I'll put my working .img away , and I can mess things up all I want and still be able to easily start over. I will try the sub menu ,Thanks.

Malor · Unread post by **Malor** » Wed Dec 28, 2022 3:44 am

Check out the "favorites.sh" script, which can be auto-downloaded for you with update_all. You can use that to pin specific ROMs or arcade cores to the main menu, and I think you can use it to pin things into subfolders, as well. I haven't tried to do that last bit, though.

You'd probably have to create the subfolder yourself.

gamesfan · Unread post by **gamesfan** » Wed Dec 28, 2022 4:02 pm

Also keep in mind there is launching via MGL so you dont have to have multiple RBfs , as well as a script that will make a fav list for you.

jca · Unread post by **jca** » Wed Dec 28, 2022 4:07 pm

There is no need to duplicate the rbfs, just making symlinks to the mras.

Malor · Unread post by **Malor** » Wed Dec 28, 2022 4:44 pm

AFAIK, Linux is the only OS that will understand symlinks on an exFAT filesystem. If you're trying to interoperate with Windows, using favorites.sh to create "mgl" files is a better idea. MGLs are a Mister-specific format that have information inside about what core should be launched and what ROM should be loaded.

If only Linux systems will be touching the SD card, then symlinks will do what you expect.

jca · Unread post by **jca** » Wed Dec 28, 2022 6:09 pm

I forgot about that because I have everything on a USB HDD formatted ext4.

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