theMK2k / MetropolisLauncher

A data-heavy Emulation & Gaming front-end for Windows
http://metropolis-launcher.net
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Soft Updates #42

Closed Cyorter closed 3 years ago

Cyorter commented 6 years ago

Another bad idea I think. I did think it would be amazing for people who already has Metropolis, to download a soft update. What are you talking about? Easy, not everybody have an very great internet (but well is better than nothing), and Metropolis is too large in size (even more than LaunchBox), and that's due to the moby.db and rombase.db. So an update that excludes these two files will result in a very smaller file than the normal updates. But the problem is also obvious, is that with every update of Metropolis Launcher, these files are also updated, and I didn't think that. I still think about an alternative update method, maybe its possible a patch, or something else. Because for example, hackroms uses IPS to patch their roms. I still think there's some possibilities for this.

At least when you're about to launch an update and there's not any updates to the db, launch the update without the db files and the full program (for new users).