Can I have more than one Favorite folder?

[Mark32]

Is there a way to set up two favorite folders that can be used in GameEx one for myself and one for my girlfriend. The closest I got was to create a ini file in C:\Emulators\Mame32\CustomFolders. This gives me an extra folder but I have to populate it manually.

Is there anyway to do this?

[Brian Hoffman]

Is there a way to set up two favorite folders that can be used in GameEx one for myself and one for my girlfriend. The closest I got was to create a ini file in C:\Emulators\Mame32\CustomFolders. This gives me an extra folder but I have to populate it manually.

Is there anyway to do this?

You can use the gameex commandline option to use a diffrent gameex.ini

You can start with copying yours as a base... Making a Bat file to launch gameex using the second config.. Make all new favs and call it a day.

[shaunopp]

Is there a way to set up two favorite folders that can be used in GameEx one for myself and one for my girlfriend. The closest I got was to create a ini file in C:\Emulators\Mame32\CustomFolders. This gives me an extra folder but I have to populate it manually.

Is there anyway to do this?

Possible workaround, the GameEx documentation suggests that if your girlfriend's favorites aren't in line with yours to get a new one.

[Mark32]

Possible workaround, the GameEx documentation suggests that if your girlfriend's favorites aren't in line with yours to get a new one.

Some how I though someone would suggest that.

[bkenobi]

I'm not sure that using an alternate ini file will help in this case. Unless I'm wrong (I haven't looked recently, so I could be), the favorites data is stored in the data.mdb file with all of the game data. If so, then you could only have a single list.

I'm not sure that's correct though since I just cleared all the data out and have all my favorites still there. Unfortunately for me, that's every game that I have due to a screw up I performed the other day

[Tempest]

Then you could have the option of swapping out the Data.mdb file with a script at startup. That way all games could be in seperate favorites. Not easy (impossible?) to do after GameEx is running though....

[bkenobi]

Hmmm, that's an option. In fact, it could be done with a hard link so you don't take any time to copy the file. Interesting thought though! And no, I don't think this would work once GameEx has started. You would probably need a script that closed GameEx, switched the database, then started GameEx again. This would be possible, but could create maintainability problems. It's worth playing with if someone had interest in really doing this.

NOTE: I think it would be better to have this incorporated into GameEx directly since this is a bit of an ugly, kludged solution.