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Hello

I favourited a bunch of the preloaded games like Quake, Doom, etc. But on reboot they don't appear in my favourites list.. Is there a setting that could be filtering them out that I've hit?

From the log I noticed that my favourite system is created and 2 games from nes and snes are added. Are the preloaded games not added because they haven't been added to their system yet? Or is this log typical behaviour..

Thank you

[1980/01/01 02:00:24.018] (INFO ) : [System] Gamelist load time: 1891ms
[1980/01/01 02:00:24.018] (INFO ) : [System] Creating favorite system
[1980/01/01 02:00:24.019] (WARN!) : [System]   Get 1 favorites for nes!
[1980/01/01 02:00:24.019] (WARN!) : [System]   Get 1 favorites for snes!
[1980/01/01 02:00:24.036] (WARN!) : [System] Add games from 2048 into Ports
[1980/01/01 02:00:24.037] (WARN!) : [System] Add games from cavestory into Ports
[1980/01/01 02:00:24.037] (WARN!) : [System] Add games from dinothawr into Ports
[1980/01/01 02:00:24.037] (WARN!) : [System] Add games from doom into Ports
[1980/01/01 02:00:24.037] (WARN!) : [System] Add games from mrboom into Ports
[1980/01/01 02:00:24.037] (WARN!) : [System] Add games from quake into Ports
[1980/01/01 02:00:24.037] (WARN!) : [System] Add games from rickdangerous into Ports
[1980/01/01 02:00:24.037] (WARN!) : [System] Add games from wolfenstein3d into Ports

Absolutely right, I would recommend your method for anyone who wants to fine tune their roms via the computer. My way just meant no need to get off the couch or get the keyboard out, hehe (lazy). It's also that bit easier because I didn't know what the code was for disabling SMC checks, which I learnt later was pcsx_rearmed_nosmccheck

@zing is there a list of all possible core options?

Hey, after some trial and error I learnt quite a lot that I'm not sure is fully documented..

So on PSX when you hotkey + b and change any settings* via quick menu > options the settings are written to the retroarch-core-options.cfg and saved. You don't need to create a game config or save game overrides, it is written and saved and won't default back on next boot.

So this is the method for setting these options for all psx games. But to answer my original question, to disable SMC checks per rom you will need to start the rom, hotkey + b, disable SMC checks, save game config file (seen at the the top of quick menu > options), then you can change SMC checks back to your desired psx default setting. Exit the rom, open another psx rom to confirm that SMC checks are how you want them, exit rom then open the first rom that you saved a config file for and ensure the setting is correct.

thanks @zing

*only tested the two high resolution settings and the SMC checks setting.

Hello all!

pcsx_rearmed_nosmccheck = "enabled"

Is Disabling/Enabling SMC checks available per psx rom? On psx when I when I disable SMC checks for a particular rom, I then go into overrides and hit save game overrides.

My understanding is that because its a quick-menu option, it should save in:
.config/retroarch/config/[core-name]/[rom-name].cfg
But instead, it creates an entire core config file that applies to all psx roms.

So, am I right in assuming that SMC checks are not able for setting per rom, using the save game overrides option?

Thanks!