Content Downloader: Allow downloading to "system" directory
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Description
The Content Downloader provides a number of content files. There are some bios-related files listed in there, and it would be great to have RetroArch download System files to the System/bios directory.
Perhaps there's a naming scheme we add to the files to determine whether or not they go into the System folder?
For example... Wolfenstein 3D has a ecwolf.pk3 which should be in the system/bios directory. We could move it to the following folder:
Content Downloader > Wolfenstein 3D > System > ecwolf.pk3
When RetroArch downloads it, since "System" is in the path, have it download to the System directory?
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Research direction
Start at the Content Downloader entry point and trace how content paths are mapped to download destinations. Determine how a System path should select the system/bios directory without changing other downloads; done means the Wolfenstein 3D ecwolf.pk3 example is placed there and existing destinations continue to work.
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- c
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