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Game runners

Gregory Cabral De Los Santos edited this page Apr 26, 2026 · 2 revisions

The game runners is a feature introduced on v1.0.33, this functionality allows you to run games through an external application that its not a emulator, such as launchers and retroarch, currently the supported runners are Heroic and RetroArch

Heroic Games Launcher

In order to use it you have to first setup heroic with the following

Retroarch

In order to make it work properly you first have to install cores and then configure retroarch as the emulator for the specified console, using the "Retroarch parameters" button will display a command builder that will allow you to run the games with a especific core, if not specified, Yamata will use the first matching core for the specified console This is a demo of how to setup it https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/62eec314-e71a-4ffd-89a9-d1721e05c903

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