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Getting Started

I am assuming you already have emulators installed and have games you want to run. To get started with RetroRoaming you need to add an emulator to it (Edit Emulator > Add Emulator in the menubar)

• Give the emulator a name e.g. 'Dosbox'
• Browse and Select the .exe or .bat files that starts the emulator
• Next it will ask for the default directory you keep your games in, which is not strictly needed, but when you add the games the screen will default to this location making it easier
• Add a game (Edit Game > Add Game in the menu Bar)
• Select the game you want the emulator to run.

You may now need to edit the 'options' field. This is currently just the full location of the game. That assumes you run the emulator passing just this as a parameter. That might be ok for a lot of Dosbox games, however there is a chance it will be more complicated than that.

At this point the field 'CMD it will run' is just that. If you copy and paste this into a command window, if it does not work it will not work in RetroRoaming

So a couple of examples to help from my 'Option' fields for 2 games:

Dosbox and Doom2 - I use a Dosdox configuration file for this game, so the option field looks like this: -conf "E:\Dos\dosboxconf\doom2-0.74-3.conf" "E:\Dos\DosGames\DOOM2\DOOM2.EXE"

"CMD it will run" looks like (Pasting this into a CMD prompt on my laptop will start the game): "E:\Program Files (x86)\DOSBox-0.74-3\DOSBox.exe" -conf "E:\Dos\dosboxconf\doom2-0.74-3.conf" "E:\Dos\DosGames\DOOM2\DOOM2.EXE"

Fuse and JetPac - I use Fuse to play this ZXSpectrum game, however by default the screen is too small, so I add an option to make this 3 times bigger (-g 3x). The option field looks like this: "E:\Dos\DosGames\Emu\Speccy\Games\JETPAC.Z80" -g 3x

"CMD it will run" looks like (Pasting this into a CMD prompt on my laptop will start the game): "E:\Program Files (x86)\Fuse\fuse.exe" "E:\Dos\DosGames\Emu\Speccy\Games\JETPAC.Z80" -g 3x

Remember to use the 'Notes' field to keep useful information. E.g. The Keys the game uses or tips. Also you need to press the 'Update' button when you have changed the 'Options' fields otherwise it will not remember you change.

Things to Note

• The 'CMD It Will run' is useful for trouble shooting, but you need to understand how each emulator works.
• You need to manually add each game, so if you have hundreds this is not very practical. However the application saves the emulator and games data in readable json file format (and editable if needed) in your profile under C:\Users\YOURPROFILE\AppData\Local\RetroRoaming. So it is possible to add them here if you are careful.
• When adding or amending if you are prompted for a file or folder and you do not want to change this, just cancel that screen. It will remain unchanged.
• To add file locations to the option field you can browse via 'File>Add File Location to options'(This is not part of the 'edit game' process)
• All aspects should be editable in RetroRoaming, i.e. you can rename and delete things
• Some emulators will not let you run a game from the command prompt directly. If that is the case you can use the 'Notes' field for each game to keep the details of how you start the game once the emulator is open (This can help, particularly if you need to remember key mappings)