Test build: Library Folders, sort your games into folders

[spencercnorton]

Indigo can now show the folders in /games, if you want it to. This is a test build of that: Indigo 2.2.0 with one new setting, Library Folders. It isn't a release yet, so try it and tell us how it feels.

What's new

• Settings › Setup › Library › Library Folders. It is Off by default, and with it off the Library is exactly as in 2.2.0: one list of every game in /games.
• On, the Library shows your folders as cards beside your games. A opens a folder and B goes back up one (from /games, B goes back to Home). The heading names the folder you are in, such as RACING / CLASSICS.
• Two levels deep. A folder in a folder is the last level, and it shows every game below it too, so no game is ever out of reach.
• A folder named like a game, Title [GAMEID], is still one game.
• A folder with no games in it just shows the way back.
• It works in every Library Layout: Horizontal, Vertical, Grid and Spotlight.

Above: /games with a Racing folder; inside Racing, its Classics folder; and inside Racing / Classics, a game there and one from a folder below it.

Above: folders in Vertical, Grid, Spotlight and Horizontal. A long heading keeps its end, so the folder you are in always shows.

Install

Download: Indigo-ci-1bf8bf10.zip (6.3 MB)

It installs exactly like a release: unzip it, select everything in the folder and drag it onto the root of your SD card. On a Mac, hold Option as you drop and choose Merge. Your settings carry over. To go back, install the 2.2.0 release the same way.

Then turn it on: Settings › Setup › Library › Library Folders › On, then B and B to save.

Sort your games

/games/Pikmin.iso
/games/Nintendo/Super Mario Sunshine [GMSE01]/game.iso
/games/Nintendo/Zelda/The Wind Waker.iso
/games/Nintendo/Zelda/Older/Ocarina of Time.iso

Here /games shows Pikmin and a Nintendo folder. Nintendo shows Super Mario Sunshine and a Zelda folder, and Zelda shows both The Wind Waker and Ocarina of Time.

• Keep a game's two discs in the same folder.
• While Library Folders is on, it sets Flatten directory itself. Turn Library Folders off and your own value comes back.

What would help

• How it feels: opening a folder and going back, on your card or drive. Please say what you use (SD2SP2, SD Gecko, GC Loader, ...) and roughly how many games you have.
• Anything off: something confusing, a game that doesn't show up where you expect, anything that looks wrong. A photo of the screen helps.

Reply here with what you find.

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Test build from the test/library-folders branch, commit 1bf8bf1 (System Information › About Indigo shows it). SHA-256 of the zip: 49f11b82058f510ec8d8dc3f2c48e0a3dfd00118bb7f21c072913b20d4933e0f. The pull request is #72. The pictures are from the Dolphin emulator, with made-up demo games.