For ROM hacking purposes, it is often convenient to extract a game into a filesystem tree, so you can quickly replace files without rebuilding the entire ISO.
Dolphin supports setting custom DVD root and Apploader, then manually starting main.dol (or whatever it's called). However, this adds two setting that must be changed per-game. In addition, main.dol probably does not show up in the ISO list (definitely not by the actual game name), and must be manually selected using the Open File dialog.
Is there an option to allow "game folders" to be treated as normal games, and listed with them (with a title prefix/suffix)? Example: "Zelda Wind Waker (extracted)" or "(extracted) Zelda Wind Waker".
You could either use "wit" folder layout, which has metadata, apploader, headers, filesystem, etc. in different subfolders. Or you could also support Dolphin's native extraction layout (flatter than WIT).
However, the file selection dialog probably does not support opening folders as files. To fix this problem, you could instead use text files with a custom extension, holding the relative/absolute path of the DVD root, etc. These files are treated as the actual game (open dialog, game list).
Dolphin supports setting custom DVD root and Apploader, then manually starting main.dol (or whatever it's called). However, this adds two setting that must be changed per-game. In addition, main.dol probably does not show up in the ISO list (definitely not by the actual game name), and must be manually selected using the Open File dialog.
Is there an option to allow "game folders" to be treated as normal games, and listed with them (with a title prefix/suffix)? Example: "Zelda Wind Waker (extracted)" or "(extracted) Zelda Wind Waker".
You could either use "wit" folder layout, which has metadata, apploader, headers, filesystem, etc. in different subfolders. Or you could also support Dolphin's native extraction layout (flatter than WIT).
However, the file selection dialog probably does not support opening folders as files. To fix this problem, you could instead use text files with a custom extension, holding the relative/absolute path of the DVD root, etc. These files are treated as the actual game (open dialog, game list).
I no longer actively use Dolphin or visit the forums. My blog went down years ago with the Heliohost HDD crash. I'm active in famitracker.org discord now.
