How to add icons on the homescreen that link to emulators?

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Ive already started digging into how we can do the same things for folders and it looks pretty easy. Thanks to @Sammie for writing the wiki post. It’s too bad the wiki pages are on a repository level and can’t be accessed from the Project. That means more digging for people unfamiliar with GitHub.

But anyway… it seems all we need to do is

  1. add a folder to launcher/Menu/GameShell/20_Retro Games/ example SNES
  2. in that folder create a file called action.config
  3. in that file it should contain:

ROM=/home/cpi/games/[FOLDER-WITH-COMPATIBLE-ROMS]
ROM_SO=/home/cpi/apps/emulators/[DESIRED-CORE-TO-USE]
EXT=[EXTENSIONS-COMPATIBLE-WITH-CORE] ie zip,sfc,smc
LAUNCHER=retroarch -L
TITLE=[Title to display by Launcher]
SO_URL=http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/linux/armhf/latest/[NAME_OF_EMULATOR].so.zip

  1. Then place your thumbnail in launcher/skin/default/Menu/GameShell/20_Retro Games/
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