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General Discussions => Need Help? => Topic started by: PrettyPrincess on October 20, 2017, 02:35:40 AM

Title: Adding A New Application - Virtual Boy
Post by: PrettyPrincess on October 20, 2017, 02:35:40 AM: How exactly do I manually add a new application to the list, under Virtual Boy? Currently, I only see BizHawk and Red Dragon [Script]. RetroArch has a Virtual Boy core called Beetle VB.

https://wiki.libretro.com/index.php?title=Beetle/Mednafen_VB

Also, is it possible to set a wallpaper for each Console? Instead of showing artwork for each rom such as Mario Tennis or Wario Land, I would like to set a single wallpaper of the console itself, the Virtual Boy.
Title: Re: Adding A New Application - Virtual Boy
Post by: mgalaxy on October 20, 2017, 03:30:28 AM: Hi PrettyPrincess!

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How exactly do I manually add a new application to the list, under Virtual Boy? Currently, I only see BizHawk and Red Dragon [Script]. RetroArch has a Virtual Boy core called Beetle VB.
With a text editor, open mGalaxy folder -> Data -> BaseSystems -> BaseSystems.xml
Locate the block of code related to Virtual Boy
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<System type="Console"> <Name ss="11" em="Nintendo_Virtual_Boy" tgdb="Nintendo Virtual Boy" gb="79|VBOY">Nintendo Virtual Boy</Name> <Emu selected="Red Dragon [Script]"> <Cmd hidden="true" name="BizHawk" value="--fullscreen "%path\%file%ext"" extensions=".7z,.vb,.zip"/> <Cmd hidden="false" name="Red Dragon [Script]" value=""%path\%file%ext"" extensions=".vb"/> </Emu> </System>You can see 2 lines beginning with <Cmd hidden=......>, add a third one
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<Cmd hidden="true" name="RetroArch [mednafen_vb_libretro.dll]" value="-f -L cores\mednafen_vb_libretro.dll "%path\%file%ext"" extensions=".vb,.vboy"/>
So, the final block should look like this:
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<System type="Console"> <Name ss="11" em="Nintendo_Virtual_Boy" tgdb="Nintendo Virtual Boy" gb="79|VBOY">Nintendo Virtual Boy</Name> <Emu selected="Red Dragon [Script]"> <Cmd hidden="true" name="BizHawk" value="--fullscreen "%path\%file%ext"" extensions=".7z,.vb,.zip"/> <Cmd hidden="false" name="Red Dragon [Script]" value=""%path\%file%ext"" extensions=".vb"/> <Cmd hidden="true" name="RetroArch [mednafen_vb_libretro.dll]" value="-f -L cores\mednafen_vb_libretro.dll "%path\%file%ext"" extensions=".vb,.vboy"/> </Emu> </System>
Save then start mGalaxy_Runway to create a new 'VirtualBoy' system, you will see that a new emulator is available
To finish, please come back here and report that everything is working as it should so that I can add this update with the next version!! ;)

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is it possible to set a wallpaper for each Console
No, it isnt!
Title: Re: Adding A New Application - Virtual Boy
Post by: PrettyPrincess on October 20, 2017, 09:37:15 PM: Thanks Mr. Galaxy. It works fine. But don't forget to include the .zip extension too. All of my roms are in .zip format and I had to edit the last line.

extensions=".vb,.vboy,.zip"

Now, I can play all of my blinding, red Virtual Boy games. :-*
Title: Re: Adding A New Application - Virtual Boy
Post by: mgalaxy on October 21, 2017, 03:59:29 AM: Quote
don't forget to include the .zip extension too
Thanks for pointing this out! It'l be done ;)