Multiple ROMs - Githubissues

avivace commented 6 years ago

How should we support more ROM files? An array of ROM objects, where a single ROM entry is described by:

Also, allow the emulator to change to ROM to play

tobiasvl commented 6 years ago

What games is this applicable to?

avivace commented 6 years ago

[sha1,sha256, md5] hashes - everything
name - in case of multiple roms for game
path - this is just a post-computable value, since the path is deterministic given romname+gameslug
version - in case of multiple roms for game
description - in case of multiple roms for game, why are there more files and in which they differ

Multiple roms per entry can happen in this scenarios:

In active development game (should we care? just have the last build and link to the repository for more details)
Old entries with a lot of builds circulating
Demo entry including more parts

avivace commented 6 years ago

Also, how to flag the default ROM? (The one automatically played when opening the page?)

avivace commented 5 years ago

gbdev / database