scottrice
commented
10 years ago I am all for the idea of having console specific ROMs folders. That is definitely something that can be done.
As for splitting up emulators and consoles, I want to keep them the way they are. There are two big reasons for this:
- You can reuse an emulator multiple times without copying all of the information again (example: Mednafen for NES, SNES, Gameboy, and Genesis).
- I can release an emulator 'starter pack'. This is my plan to fix how hard setting up Ice 2.0 is. 2.0 is great for people who already use emulators a bunch (and already have them configured exactly the way they want), but it is terrible for people who have never used an emulator before and just want to play Super Smash Bros in Steam. The 'starter pack' would download the most recent version of emulators, put them in a folder set by the user, and would generate an emulators.txt correctly configured with the downloaded emulators.
I really like the idea of letting people specify separate ROM folders for each console though. I will keep this issue open to track the progress of that feature.
saftle
shidarin
Steam Category Name="NES" Console Grid Category (http://consolegrid.com) ="Nintendo Entertainment System" Emulator Path="C:\Emulation\NES\Nestopia\Nestopia.exe" Emulator Launch Command="%rom%" Rom Path="C:\Emulation\NES\Roms\"
This removes the need for two files and removes a bit of the bloat in my opinion. I don't think it is necessary for Ice to know what the name of an emulator is, what the nickname is, etc. All that matters is what is being passed to Steam.
Also, I think it would be a great feature to specify console specific rom paths. I may have my PSX isos shared via a network drive in order to save space, but I may save my SNES games locally. This also again makes it to where Ice no longer needs to create a roms folder.