Can I create Retroarch App Roms on the Steam Home Screen

[76561198089530220]

So I use the Retroarch app in Steam (not the Retroarch individual software added as a non-steam game) to stream to my steam link on my TV downstairs. It works great.

Instead of opening Steam, then Retroarch and selecting the game/rom to play, is there a way of creating shortcuts of my favourite roms on the steam home screen?

[Sir Dindon]

AFAIK there's no quick and easy way. You could:
- create a shortcut to Steam/steamapps/common/RetroArch/retroarch.exe and name it whatever you want, like SuperMetroid.exe
- add the shortcut to Steam
- edit the shortcut inside Steam and put this in target (adapting the paths):
"C:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\RetroArch\retroarch.exe" --load-menu-on-error -L C:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\RetroArch\cores\snes9x_libretro.dll "D:\Games\Roms\Super Metroid.sfc"

Put the filename in "double quote" if there's any space in it like I did for "Super Metroid.sfc".

But you need to do this for each game and Steam won't track your RetroArch playtime.

[AirborneMuffins]

You're best bet would probably be to utilize RA's favorites feature.
Outside of that, you could probably add the rom files to steam as non-steam games, and set windows to launch those types of files with RA.
(Edit: NVM Steam only allows exe files.)

[LettersFrom]

Why is there not a guide made for this, it was really helpful

[Crazycarlostnt]

you can use steam rom manager to sort all of the games into steam for you in a few clicks instead of individually. the only thing is that by doing this it will no longer track retro archs playtime when opening the games from the shortcuts

[Crazycarlostnt]

Originally posted by Crazycarlostnt:

you can use steam rom manager to sort all of the games into steam for you in a few clicks instead of individually. the only thing is that by doing this it will no longer track retro archs playtime when opening the games from the shortcuts

https://steamgriddb.github.io/steam-rom-manager/