> Hi,
>
> How are you supposed to launch a game from a softlist now? Before 0.162 I'd do e.g:
> mess genesis sonic
>
> But that doesn't seem to work anymore.
>
>
> mame genesis sonic
>
> "sonic" approximately matches the following
> supported software items (best match first):
>
>
> EDIT: It does work, but you need the hash folder, silly me.
it had always needed the hash folder, otherwise the emulator cannot foresee what "sonic" is 
also, while we absolutely encourage to use the shortcut "mame system game" to launch emulation with simple systems, you shall be aware that such usage limits you in some situations, and you might want to keep in mind that there also exists the more complete command line "mame genesis -cart sonic"
In particular, you shall be aware that
1. the former syntax does not allow you to lock multiple games through a passthru cart (e.g. Sonic & Knuckles + Sonic or the Game Genie), while the latter syntax gives you such a possibility (with "mame genesis -cart sk -cart2 sonic")
2. with computer games spanning on multiple disks, the emulator will try to load as many disks as possible in the floppy drive because this is the most convenient solution with many systems (so e.g. a 8-disk game in a system with 2 drives will have its first 2 disks mounted), but in some cases the game might expect you to only mount the first disk in drive 1 and then wait for more precise instructions... in this case you can overcome the wrong assumption by using "mame system -flop1 game"
3. the media switch allows you to play also games which are not in the softlist, like homebrew games and translated games, by launching "mame genesis -cart C:/mygamepath/myTranslatedGame.bin"
that said, have fun 
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