Adding a media source containing GoodMerge games

In order for this feature to work correctly you need to select the GoodMerge category when setting up the media source in addition to selecting the appropriate platform category. You also need to ensure that your emulator has been configured to support the file extensions of your GoodMerge games.

The screen below shows selecting the categories for a media source containing Nintendo 64 GoodMerge games.

Starting GoodMerge games

If you have configured your media source correctly, the first time you start a GoodMerge game you will be shown a dialog allowing you to choose which version of the game to start. The selection will then be extracted and started.

The selection will be saved and the selected version will be automatically started in future. If you want to change the saved selection you can do so by selecting _Choose GoodMerge file _from the game's context menu.

Caching of extracted games

GoodMerge games are extracted to a folder named MP2GoodMergeCache in the current user's temp directory, this is usually the path c:\Users\\[User]\AppData\Local\Temp\MP2GoodMergeCache.

Before extracting a game the plugin checks if the chosen file already exists in this directory, if it does extraction is skipped and the existing file is started.

You can clear this directory (causing the games to be re-extracted the next time they are started) by selecting Clear GoodMerge cache under Settings->Plugins->Emulators->Advanced.