[Feature] ROM patching thought UI

[binarygeek119]

rom patching would be useful to those of us that play rom hacks/translations.

i think a sub page in the game details "Rom Hacks" then it would list in the original rom details with all the hacked roms of that game.

"Super Mario 64" = "Super Mario 64 - Star Road"

i think a auto name would work. filename + patch/hack name = filename - patch/hack.rom

and auto move the rom into a folder then in that folder a subfolder hacks

|rom
| Super Mario 64
| Hacks
| Super Mario 64 -Star Road.rom
| Super Mario 64.rom
| nextgame.rom
| etc

[XargonWan]

I already made an analisys of this issue here, feel free to get inspired or implement it in the same way: RetroMan-project/core#30

[velmirslac]

Integration with RomPatcher.js might make this easier.

[gantoine]

Support for #228 would be nice-to-have before attempting to implement this. I worry about patching large ROMs in JS, since it would mean patching them fully in RAM. It seems someone has written a little python utility for this, although I haven't tried it yet.

[binarygeek119]

I would add from dlc and patch this folder structure

roms/ps3

• dlc
  -- game1/dlc1
  -- game1/dlc2
• patches
  -- game1
  -- game2
• game1.ps3
• game2.ps3
• hacks
  -- game1.total_conversion.n64
  -- game2.new_level.n64
• translations
  -- game1.jpn2eng.nes
  -- game2.spanish2eng.nes

In the webui in the game details add hack/patch then select what type of hack/patch

Patch

• official (from dev)
• unofficial (community made) [example: Skyrim unofficial patch v2]
  Hacks
• total conversation [example: GTA vice City to bttf hill valley]
• minor hack
  -- added content, new feature, character/vehicle mod (check boxs)
  Translations
• Japanese to English (jpn2eng)
• Spanish to English (span2eng)
• Spanish to Japanese (span2jpn)

[gantoine]

Going to close this as won't due, due to its low priority and the fact that other tools can do this way better then we ever could. https://github.com/emmercm/igir