Add screenshots to folder named <gamename> inside screenshots folder
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Description
Description
Please make the screenshots for any game go into a folder with its name or some identifier inside the Screenshots folder in RetroArch. It is useful to find one picture inside said folder when user takes lots of them in different games. Also helps if user have set screenshots when awarding cheevos.
Expected behavior
screenshots
-Persona 3 PORTABLE (USA) (or some game name)
--p3pscreenshot-date1.png
--p3pscreenshot-date2.png
-Tekken 3 (USA)
--tekken-date1.png
Actual behavior
screenshots
-p3pscreenshot-date1.png
-p3pscreenshot-date2.png
-tekken-date1.png
Steps to reproduce the bug
- Open any game in RetroArch.
- Take a screenshot with RetroArch's inbuilt function.
- Repeat above for more games.
- Close game and RetroArch.
- Locate the screenshot folder in storage (in Android it is /storage/emulated/0/RetroArch/screenshots)
Environment information
- OS: Windows/Linux/Android
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No source file or test is named. Start by tracing RetroArch's built-in screenshot flow and how it selects the screenshots output folder across Windows, Linux, and Android. Done means screenshots are placed in a game-specific folder while preserving distinct filenames and working across the listed environments.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100