[Suggestion] Soft-patching improvements
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Description
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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- c
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- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
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- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100