Retroarch: Can't add games from recently played tab to favorites.

[CaptainCoward]

Description

Adding content from the "recently played" playlist to the "favorites" doesn't work.

Expected behavior

Game getting added to Favorites

Actual behavior

It says "has been added to favorites" but won't show up in favorites playlist

Steps to reproduce the bug

Just try to add content from the recently played playlist to favorites.

Version/Commit

Windows 10 x64
1.6.9 f0becad9d

[hyarsan]

Yeah, the same happens with the other playlists too.

[orbea]

Can you bisect this?

[Ryunam]

I can confirm this too. The "Add to Favorites" option under each individual entry (both for Playlists and History) is not producing any effect.

[alfrix]

@Orbea This seems because the option needs a core loaded to actually write that core to the favorites playlist, that option should not try to add a core, because it's not guaranteed that the loaded core is correct, load a core and you can add to favorites anything with the current core.
The playlist option should add DETECT and be done with it.

[RobLoach]

Added the following to ~/.config/retroarch/content_favorites.lpl...

~/.config/retroarch/downloads/Floppy Bird.chailove
Floppy Bird
DETECT
DETECT

When you go to run the game, it says "No cores available". May need to detect what core could be used when adding?
https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/blob/master/command.c#L2317-L2342

[alfrix]

@RobLoach it works for me, but the sintax should be:

~/.config/retroarch/downloads/Floppy Bird.chailove
Floppy Bird
DETECT
DETECT
DETECT
DETECT

As in:

File
Name
Core
Core Name
CRC
Playlist Name

Note: i have tested on windows

[gouchi]

I confirm that the core needs to be loaded so that you can add it to the favorite tab.

[slacknk]

Don't add to Fav. from RetroArchUI in Linux distro:
Slackware64-14.2 / RetroArch-1.7.5 (build from _SBo)

[orbea]

Closing in favor of the more specific issue https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/6909.