PROBLEM with AM + Retroarch + Custom Game OVERLAY CFG [SOLVED]

[amzg79]

Hi!!!

I'm using AM with Retroarch (SNES, NES, MAME2014, MEGADRIVE, MASTER SYSTEM and PC ENGINE) in win10.

Until now it works perfects, I use one overlay (borders) for all systems,  in "retroarch.cfg" adding input_overlay = ":\overlays\tv.cfg" runs smoothly.

But now in MAME2014 I want to use overlays (borders) for each game.

To do that, in Retroarch folder (RetroArch\config\mame 2014) I need to add a config file (e.g.  ghouls.cfg) for each game to overwrite the default options in retroarch.ini.

The CFG file, that choose overlay/border for each game and overwrites the default option (retroarch.ini) contains only this line:

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input_overlay = ":\overlays\mame\ghouls.cfg"

The problem is that if a cfg file exists (e.g. RetroArch\config\mame 2014\ghouls.cfg) and I launch this game, AM suddenly closes and is not kept in the background, I don't understand why this happens....

any help?

THANX!!!!

[amzg79]

I've recorded a video to show the problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgsWS73lLAk

[akafox]

You might get a faster or better answer on the retroarch fourm. That is not an Attract mode issue.

https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/wiki/Overlay-image-configuration

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7484/adding-additional-overlays/8

https://forums.libretro.com/search?q=overlays

So when you make changes to the cfg..they don't save..is what you are saying?

[amzg79]

You might get a faster or better answer on the retroarch fourm. That is not an Attract mode issue.

https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/wiki/Overlay-image-configuration

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7484/adding-additional-overlays/8

https://forums.libretro.com/search?q=overlays

So when you make changes to the cfg..they don't save..is what you are saying?

Thanks for reply!

No, this is not the problem, the cfg works fine.

When I launch a game, which has its own configuration in Retroarch, Attract Mode is suddenly closed, I think is an Attract Mode issue and not Retroarch. Retroarch works fine.

In this video you can see that AM suddenly closes when I run Final Fight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgsWS73lLAk

[amzg79]

 

After trying different things, I finally found the solution.

Instead of allowing Retroarch to load the specific configuration of each game, overwriting the configuration, which made AM close, what I have done is to make AM say in each game that additional configuration (overlay, rotation, etc. ) must be charged directly.

Just in AM in the configuration of the emulator I added this argument valid for any game:

--appendconfig "c:\Emulators\systems\RetroArch\config\[name].cfg"

Leaving the configuration file like this:

# Generated by Attract-Mode v2.2.1
#
Executable c:\Emulators\systems\RetroArch\retroarch.exe
Args -L "c:\Emulators\systems\RetroArch\cores\mame2014_libretro.dll" --appendconfig "c:\Emulators\systems\RetroArch\config\[name].cfg" "[romfilename]"
Rompath c:\Emulators\systems\mame2014\roms\
Romext .zip

I hope this works for somebody.

Thank you all!