Feature Request - Ability to search for ROMs

[smidley]

It would be nice to either be able to search for individual ROM files, or ROM packs.

[lad1337]

Wouldn't roms just be a few new platforms, like nes snes and sega mega drive? And all we would need is adding the platforms and categories for the indexers ... Plus adding the rom file types to the post processor type list ( which should be a global thing by the way/ maybe even a setting, like list of file extensions for platform x )

[smidley]

Yea, that's all we would need I think. Not sure if searching for ROM packs is any different though.

[lad1337]

Just thinking laud here: I am thinking of creating a parser plugin type... The default one would have a simple dynamic regex( as in the game name is combined with the regex... This would be a configurable string which would mean you could create more versions of said regex ... And maybe a multiple select for the platform it should be used on...( a scoring system for choosing the best parser for said game should also be used. Like the less platforms for a parser the higher the score) We could ship gamez with a few pre configured parser plugin configurations (all the same plugin but different instances) but others would still be able to create more or more complicated parsers as separate plugins... Now the indexer plugins should not use the plugins but rather send all results back ( as its done now already ) and then we filter the list of downloads in one place (as it is done already for the blacklisted words)

I will make some improvements to the plugin type class loading (making it dynamic instead of hard coded classes) Since I am lazy writing docs I would like to have a system in place that checks each plugin for restricted class attributes ... I guess by checking the values before and after init this will only done once during boot/restart