Offer new subcategories for Rom hacks

[thelamer]

I have not determined the exact method for menu presentation, but a user should be able to upload a single source file for popular hack scenes (smw pokemon squirrel etc) and the generation of that sub menu should be fully automated we can push a full list of art assets and bps/other.

FIle can be patched in browser before being sent to the RA cores using https://github.com/marcrobledo/RomPatcher.js in a buffer.

The maintenance of these lists should be centralized around this repo to begin with, as far as I can tell there is no good raw feeds for ingesting them and we will need to make custom artwork and caps for them.

[nixxou]

Oh, great, for me, something like this would be a really nice improvement. I have a lots of rom, especially on SNES where i use mods (difficulty mods, translations...)

It's just my personal opinion, from an user standpoint, but in case that can be of any help, that's how i would love to have it :

I don't see the point on patching on the fly, it's so much easier and flexible to let the user provide rom duplicated in 7z files.
The 7z file will keep the same size, regardless of the number of version of the rom you put inside. My secret of mana 7z file that i show bellow weight less than 2MB.
And more flexible, because sometime a different version don't mean a patch, but just another region version. (Or you got patch from US version, and some for regional lang for EU version like french, so even with a system to select patch, you will end up with multiples version of the same rom)
I'm not sure how to make it work thought, server side or client side maybe with Libarchivejs ?

So for each game you put all your rom from the same 7z file, like this :

You rename your 7z file using the name of the main goodrom you want to use, in my exemple, i play in french, so i will use "Secret of Mana (F).7z"

Emulatorjs try to recognize the rom and get the art data from the CRC of "Secret of Mana (F).smc" within the 7z file. So 6BE4CA95 and that all fine, there is a match in no intro :

<game name="Secret of Mana (France)">
	<description>Secret of Mana (France)</description>
	<rom name="Secret of Mana (France).sfc" size="2097152" crc="6be4ca95" md5="35afb723a7a1166d894549519d78622c" sha1="d5601be19de691e58edd55194e10496c77e464e5" serial="!none"/>
</game>

If there is no match, just try one per one each rom CRC until you got one.

Near the logo, you put a little icon, like maybe something like that to alert the user there is multiple version of the game available :

If you press X on the controller, the game start as usual, and it launch Secret of Mana (F).scm (since my 7z is named Secret of Mana (F).7z). -if there is no rom that match your 7z filename, just launch the first one-
If you press Y on the controller, in the tv screen, instead of the video, you have a list of the roms, one by line, that you can select with up and down, choose the one you want to launch and press X to start.

[nixxou]

I revise my position, i didn't know about such extensives ressources like romhacking.net, i still think multirom 7z support would be great (especially if you implement on-the-fly patching, because most patch apply to US version, so for EU players, that mean keeping multiple version of the game), but i can totally see your point about a centralized repo and on the fly patching.

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