Hi!
I am using the PS3 version of RetroArch and i fucking love it! Big ups! There is one small area that needs some improvements though.
As MAME uses the filenames to identify the games we can’t rename the files. As it is it can be hard to identify the games with the cryptic balonfgt.zip filenames. How about adding a small database to the MAME core so that balonfgt.zip will be displayed like Balloon Fight (Bootleg) instead? That would make the MAME core a lot nicer to use!
Yeah, that would be nice, but I don’t think it’s feasible, unfortunately. It would require baking the database into RetroArch itself, rather than the core, and RetroArch supports a number of different MAME/FBA versions, so we would need to bake in a database for each one and have to be able to differentiate between ROMs for each version, which would, in turn, require checksumming each file, which would then make directory listings take forever, and so on.
I agree it would definitely be a welcome feature, though.
Maybe we can do something like core info files for roms to prettify the list?