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A games-first hub for emulation.
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Inconsistent rom scanning #32

Closed Jammintk closed 8 months ago

Jammintk commented 8 months ago

ROM scanning is pretty inconsistent for me. NES/SNES/N64/GB/GBC/GBA/Dreamcast/PSX/PS2 all scan in fine, but I have folders full of games for other supported platforms. Genesis/Gamecube/NDS.

Maybe offering a manual option in settings in a future release for "add games by platform" with a directory entry field and a platform selector to add games not in expected folders would be a good failsafe for the auto-scan missing things.

Is EmuHub looking for games with specific extensions? Everything I have is stored in .zip. I'm also using pretty standard directory names for the platforms that aren't scanning in (megadrive/gcn/nds)

ryandavidmercado commented 8 months ago

Hi @Jammintk !

By default systems scan in the directory of their ID; you can check EmuHubConfig/defaults/systems.yml to see all the default systems and their configurations.

That explains GameCube & Megadrive; their IDs are "gc" and "genesis", respectively.

Think I'll add alternative directory scanning to the roadmap since this is a pretty reasonable request. In the meantime, you can specify romdir manually in EmuHubConfig/systems.yml (not the defaults one! user overrides and extensions go in the main EmuHubConfig directory):

- id: gc
  romdir: /full/path/to/gamecube
- id: genesis
  romdir: /full/path/to/megadrive

As for NDS, looks like I missed .zip in the fileExtensions for it! Will add in next release but you can add it in the same systems.yml file as your romdirs in the meantime:

- id: nds
  fileExtensions:
    - .zip
ryandavidmercado commented 8 months ago

Closing due to lack of response; will add a new issue for adding alternative scan directories.