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[Suggestion] Soft-patching improvements

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Recently Multi soft-patching was added through #11792

While it's a great feature, having patch files with random names is not convenient, we can't identify which patch is what.

1- I suggest that every character after the patch extension (.ips / .ips1 / .ups / .ups2 ...) would be ignored so that we can add a custom name after it, like that :

Castlevania - Harmony of Dissonance (USA).gba
Castlevania - Harmony of Dissonance (USA).ips-no-blue_outlines
Castlevania - Harmony of Dissonance (USA).ips1-music-overhaul

@eadmaster @Sanaki

2- Also, I take this opportunity to remind of that feature request #10135 which would make roms management way easier. I 'm suprised that RA doesn't feature this manual patch selection menu when it forces us to duplicates rom files + save files just for translations or small hacks.

Thanks to all contributors for considering this.

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Research direction

Review the multi soft-patching implementation introduced by #11792, then compare it with the requested suffix examples in this issue. The related manual patch-selection request is tracked in #10135; completion would require an agreed scope for both recognizable patch names and that selection workflow.

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Tech stack
c
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
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5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
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Newbie friendliness
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