![]() The navigation pointer jumps to the first match.The user presses RetroPad ‘X’ (or keyboard ‘/’, or Material UI’s search icon), and enters a search term.After this, you might have to restart.īefore, RetroArch’s inbuilt ‘search’ function was woefully inadequate: NOTE: It should be mentioned that in the future, if you want the metadata to be updated automatically in existing versions of RetroArch, you should go to ‘Online Updater’ and select ‘Update Databases’. Now only 3 entries are shown that matches this criteria (name has ‘super’ in the title, AND is from a specific developer, AND was released in the year 1993, AND was released in region ‘Europe’). We go to ‘Additional Filters’, ‘Region’, ‘Europe’). There’s now only 6 entries shown that matches this criteria (name has ‘super’ in the title, AND is from a specific developer, AND was released in the year 1993). We go to ‘Additional Filters’ again, and this time we select ‘By Release Year’, ‘1993’. Let’s add another filter to narrow down the search even more.Now out of 219 entries, only 25 entries are still shown that matches this criteria (name has ‘super’ in the title, AND is from a specific developer) We go to ‘Additional Filters’, and select a developer of choice. We will now filter the entries by a specific developer to narrow down our search.Type in ‘super’, will list all entries in your collection that has ‘super’ in the name.Here are some of them: Granular filtering Here is a good example of the kind of powerful context-sensitive filtering that is possible with the Explore view. There are tons of ways you can use the Explore view to find what you want. The metadata is currently a bit on the incomplete side, but you can expect us to add more and more metadata to the Libretro database as we go along. It will not show entries that haven’t yet been added to your collection. ![]() The ‘Explore’ view only shows the content that has been added to your playlists. ![]() Origin (country of origin that the game was developed in).System (game console/platform that the game released on).It allows you to search / find content based on criteria such as: The Explore view takes advantage of the Libretro databases’ metadata history of content. Probably the highlight of this release – there is a new ‘Explore’ view for all playlists.
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