Retroarch emulation without games loaded
Ok, so I’ve been a retroarch user for many years, I have my own retro rig configured with complete rom sets for must systems.
This is all controlled via AttractMode Menus with RocketLauncher to do the heavy lifting in the background.
This all works great and i have even created my own custom theme etc.
What I would love to do is to have another menu within the Computers section of my AttractMode System that would launch the computer base rom without the games, just the base rom loaded.
I know I can do this with by pointing the system at different emulators for each system (Sinclair, Atari, commodore, Apple etc) but most of these systems use RetroArch to launch the system with games loaded already so is it possible to launch RetroArch without any game rom to get to the base system of each system.
Hope this makes sense…..
Posted Apr 21, 2021, 7:11 PM UTC
Launchbox/bigbox frontend has the option to just load retroarch.
For example. you go into the SNES section of the front end. Choose a game. And when the sub menu pops up there is an option to load retroarch only instead of loading the game.
I’ve had a look at retroarch cores and only certain ones provide the option to start with no game rom, so I’m implementing my plan b….
Separate section with separate emulators for coding etc - wrote some cracking adventure games back in the day on my little speccy… still have the cassettes too - found them in the loft, wonder if they’ll still work