diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e76bfe3deb..21b89b8b72 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -58,7 +58,11 @@ ifeq ($(findstring Haiku,$(OS)),)
 	LIBS = -lm
 endif
 
-DEFINES = -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DHAVE_SCREENSHOTS
+ifndef GLOBAL_CONFIG_DIR
+    GLOBAL_CONFIG_DIR = /etc
+endif
+
+DEFINES = -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DHAVE_SCREENSHOTS -DGLOBAL_CONFIG_DIR='"$(GLOBAL_CONFIG_DIR)"'
 
 ifeq ($(REENTRANT_TEST), 1)
    DEFINES += -Dmain=retroarch_main
@@ -389,11 +393,11 @@ tools/input_common_joyconfig.o: input/input_common.c
 
 install: $(TARGET)
 	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin 2>/dev/null || /bin/true
-	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/etc 2>/dev/null || /bin/true
+	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(GLOBAL_CONFIG_DIR) 2>/dev/null || /bin/true
 	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/man/man1 2>/dev/null || /bin/true
 	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/pixmaps 2>/dev/null || /bin/true
 	install -m755 $(TARGET) $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin 
-	install -m644 retroarch.cfg $(DESTDIR)/etc/retroarch.cfg
+	install -m644 retroarch.cfg $(DESTDIR)$(GLOBAL_CONFIG_DIR)/retroarch.cfg
 	install -m644 docs/retroarch.1 $(DESTDIR)$(MAN_DIR)
 	install -m644 docs/retroarch-joyconfig.1 $(DESTDIR)$(MAN_DIR)
 	install -m755 retroarch-zip $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin
@@ -404,7 +408,7 @@ uninstall:
 	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/retroarch-joyconfig
 	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/retrolaunch
 	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/retroarch-zip
-	rm -f $(DESTDIR)/etc/retroarch.cfg
+	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(GLOBAL_CONFIG_DIR)/retroarch.cfg
 	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/man/man1/retroarch.1
 	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/man/man1/retroarch-joyconfig.1
 	rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/share/pixmaps/retroarch.png
diff --git a/qb/config.libs.sh b/qb/config.libs.sh
index e2da00cc4e..57eb0bc74a 100644
--- a/qb/config.libs.sh
+++ b/qb/config.libs.sh
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ check_macro NEON __ARM_NEON__
 add_define_make OS "$OS"
 
 # Creates config.mk and config.h.
+add_define_make GLOBAL_CONFIG_DIR "$GLOBAL_CONFIG_DIR"
 VARS="RGUI ALSA OSS OSS_BSD OSS_LIB AL RSOUND ROAR JACK COREAUDIO PULSE SDL OPENGL GLES VG EGL KMS GBM DRM DYLIB GETOPT_LONG THREADS CG LIBXML2 SDL_IMAGE ZLIB DYNAMIC FFMPEG AVCODEC AVFORMAT AVUTIL SWSCALE FREETYPE XVIDEO X11 XEXT XF86VM XINERAMA NETPLAY NETWORK_CMD STDIN_CMD COMMAND SOCKET_LEGACY FBO STRL PYTHON FFMPEG_ALLOC_CONTEXT3 FFMPEG_AVCODEC_OPEN2 FFMPEG_AVIO_OPEN FFMPEG_AVFORMAT_WRITE_HEADER FFMPEG_AVFORMAT_NEW_STREAM FFMPEG_AVCODEC_ENCODE_AUDIO2 FFMPEG_AVCODEC_ENCODE_VIDEO2 BSV_MOVIE VIDEOCORE NEON"
 create_config_make config.mk $VARS
 create_config_header config.h $VARS
diff --git a/qb/qb.libs.sh b/qb/qb.libs.sh
index f79487c441..9b24e117be 100644
--- a/qb/qb.libs.sh
+++ b/qb/qb.libs.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ cat /dev/null > "$MAKEFILE_DEFINES" > "$CONFIG_DEFINES"
 #cat /dev/null > "${MAKEFILE_DEFINES:=.MAKEFILE_DEFINES}" > "${CONFIG_DEFINES=.CONFIG_DEFINES}"
 
 [ "$PREFIX" ] || PREFIX="/usr/local"
+[ "$CONFIG_DIR" ] || CONFIG_DIR="/etc"
 
 add_define_header()
 { echo "$1=$2" >> "$CONFIG_DEFINES";}
diff --git a/qb/qb.params.sh b/qb/qb.params.sh
index 68070343e6..2ef9233891 100644
--- a/qb/qb.params.sh
+++ b/qb/qb.params.sh
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ LDFLAGS:    Linker flags
 
 General options:
 --prefix=\$path: Install path prefix
+--global-config-dir=\$path: System wide config file prefix
 --host=HOST: cross-compile to build programs to run on HOST
 --help: Show this help
 
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ parse_input() # Parse stuff :V
 	while [ "$1" ]; do
 		case "$1" in
 			--prefix=*) PREFIX=${1##--prefix=};;
+			--global-config-dir=*) GLOBAL_CONFIG_DIR=${1##--global-config-dir=};;
 			--host=*) CROSS_COMPILE=${1##--host=}-;;
 			--enable-*)
 				opt_exists "${1##--enable-}"
diff --git a/settings.c b/settings.c
index 1c9c33d1ef..de8ba5e81a 100644
--- a/settings.c
+++ b/settings.c
@@ -380,9 +380,12 @@ static config_file_t *open_default_config_file(void)
    // Try this as a last chance ...
    if (!conf)
    {
-      strlcpy(conf_path, "/etc/retroarch.cfg", sizeof(conf_path));
+      #ifndef GLOBAL_CONFIG_DIR
+        #define GLOBAL_CONFIG_DIR "/etc"
+	  #endif
+	  fill_pathname_join(conf_path, GLOBAL_CONFIG_DIR, "retroarch.cfg", sizeof(conf_path));
+      RARCH_LOG("Looking for config in: \"%s\".\n", conf_path);
       conf = config_file_new(conf_path);
-      RARCH_LOG("Looking for config in: \"/etc/retroarch.cfg\".\n");
    }
 
    if (conf)
diff --git a/tools/retrolaunch/retrolaunch b/tools/retrolaunch/retrolaunch
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..56b93b4462
Binary files /dev/null and b/tools/retrolaunch/retrolaunch differ