Game List Options (GLO)
Make actions on your game list
Presentation
Game List Options (GLO menu) is a tool for performing actions for the selected game or for the entire list.
Press Y in a game list then from this menu you can choose the RetroArch core, download the image cover of your game (WiFi/MMP required), launch a Netplay session, reset your game (to skip the last save state), filter the list of games with a keyword,...
Thanks to GLO menu flexibility, you can even add your own scripts here!
Usage
GLO Menu is a native application of Onion, it is installed by default.
When in a game list, press Y to open GLO (this action can be reassigned in Tweaks) | GLO - specific options for the selected game or the entire list | Use the "Game core" option to change core per game |
Scripts available in Onion
- Reset game: load game without save state, useful to start a game from beginning
- Game core: set custom Retroarch core per game, useful to switch from mGBA to gPSP for example
- Filter list: use a keyword to filter the list
- Refresh roms: refresh the list’s game cache, useful when you have added some games
- Custom scripts:
- Random game: added by Random Game app - launches a random game from the list
- Set time: added by Clock app - quick access to setting date and time
- WiFi scripts: (Miyoo Mini Plus only)
- Scraper: Download image covers for your games. More details here
- Netplay: Launch or join a multiplayer game. More details here
Advanced
GLO Menu allows you to create your own scripts.
The GLO scripts are located in sdcard/App/romscripts
.
The existing scripts are a great source of inspiration for your future script. Here some examples:
- Scraper script: good example to use rom path
- Random game script: good example to get the current section
- Netplay script: good example for dynamic labels entry in GLO menu
Some useful variables:
require_networking=1
: will show this GLO entry only on the MMP which is equipped of WiFi%LIST%
: is the name of the current system (for example GENESIS)$1
: will contain the full path of the selected rom$2
: will contain the full path of the current emulator