ES-DE (EmulationStation) Apple2GS using Mame softwarelists

I believe Apple2gs integration can be improved if Mame's softwarelist is used. That way, and after properly configuring UI assigns both in Retroarch and mame core one can use multiple disk games without need to browse your computer's files at all. This approach is very usefull since .m3u playlist can't be used with Mame systems.

There are several steps neccesary:

- Copy mame \hash folder into \Emulators\RetroArch-Win64\system\mame\
- Modify es_systems.xml adding:

command label="MAME - Test"%EMULATOR_RETROARCH% -L %CORE_RETROARCH%\mame_libretro.dll "**apple2gs %BASENAME% -rompath \"%GAMEDIRRAW%;%ROMPATH%\apple2gs\" -gameio joy"

- Copy Mame Apple2GS softwarelist folders (apple2gs_flop_clcracked, apple2gs_flop_misc and apple2gs_flop_orig) into \Roms\Apple2gs

That way mame core will automatically configure the Apple2gs system and insert the disks automatically in its virtual drives.

In my case I used the Apple2GS hashes to temporary rename the shortname ROM files to the proper ones so I could scrape the games. Then I renamed them back to the short ones and modified the media files and gamelist.xml to match them using a script. This is essential since Mame needs the expected filename in order to made the softwarelist work.

Видео ES-DE (EmulationStation) Apple2GS using Mame softwarelists канала Daniel V.