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Retool: a better filter tool for Redump and No-Intro DAT files.
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[v2] Feature request - Ability to deprioritize compilations? #241

Closed retroNUC closed 1 year ago

retroNUC commented 1 year ago

Reading through changelogs and new documentation, the new compilation behaviour for v2 seems to be prioritizing compilations for the purposes of being the most 'optimal' in terms of number of files / data size in a 1G1R set.

However, this does go against my personal preference of individual games where possible (the behaviour from v1, I believe), which is much preferred when the set ends up being used in a frontend where it scrapes metadata / screenshots / etc. It seemed to be most people's preference when going through compilation-related bugs from v1 as well, with most logging issues to ask for removal of compilations.

Tracing through the logic, hopefully it would just be an option in the frontend to skip processing rule REF0072: Looking for this ideal combination: ...

unexpectedpanda commented 1 year ago

Compilations are always tricky work (straight up removal ended up not really working), but yes, this is on my to do list.

I'm aware there are preferences for single titles to take into account patches and retro achievements too.

unexpectedpanda commented 1 year ago

Individual titles are now preferred over compilations as of v2 beta 8.

Take in mind individual titles aren't always selected. If there's a compilation that offers a title with a higher primary region or primary language, or has a higher clone list priority, it is selected instead.