selecting games through a choice of icons

[davereap]

hi... Ive got dolphin working well, however I am trying to get it setup with three options, to use one of three choices of paths for the iso's or wads, with each choice being obtained by clicking on a different dolphin icon which then runs the program from a separate folder ...
however each time I try to swap, the path seems to be whatever I last used...

can I select somewhere the location where it will save the configuration for each instance of the program.. so they are saved separately

further explanation as its all a bit confusing...
I want three dolphin icons on the desktop.. with each one pulling up a different set of games or wads.... ie one for favourite games, one for all the games, one for all the wads..

any ideas...????

[Dan_Tsukasa]

Dolphins directory preferences are global, you can't have lets say 4 dolphin installs all pointing at different directories.

I don't understand why you'd want a separate dolphin for just wads or fav games though, do you have such a large number of games that its necessary?

I do actually think Dolphin itself could do with a search option so you can filter titles on the main screen, but I don't think many people have so many games that this would be a necessity.

[KHg8m3r]

This is quite doable, you just need to be creative n how you set it all up, of which I may have an idea.

But first, upgrade to the latest dev builds from here: https://dolphin-emu.org/download/ as they're faster and more accurate than 4.0.

Now, onto your question. I can think of 2 ways to do this:
1) set up Steam Big Picture with Dolphin and use different categories for your games. Kinda like how I have mine set up:

My Steam Big Picture: (Show Spoiler)

2) do some trickery with how you set up the folders, of which I have a rough idea on how to do. If you don't want to go the first route then I will figure out the details on this.