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[Feature] Option to put Resources/Assets with Roms
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. If I move away from RomM at some point in the future, I would love for all of my resources and assets to be grouped with my roms.
Currently, assets and resources get put into arbitrary folders where it's unreasonable to expect a user to be able to navigate/use said files outside of the RomM application.
Describe the solution you'd like Add an option to keep RomM assets and resources in the same folder as the rom to which they belong. That way if I lose access to RomM for some reason, I don't lose access to my art/saves.
This is an option Jellyfin has, and I love keeping everything related to one piece of media all in the same folder.
Describe alternatives you've considered I don't see another way to handle this.
Additional context I would also like to see "notes" stored as a txt file or similar, for the same reasons as listed above.
That way if I lose access to RomM for some reason
what do you mean by this, like a database corruption?
Thanks for your response!
If RomM is abandoned (or something like that), and I want to move to another platform.
It's really nice to be allowed to dictate this part of the library structure, so these files become more useful for everyone, regardless of RomM status. That's personally a big part of what I'm looking for in "Rom Manager", not just a "Rom Frontend". Does that make sense?
ah in that case, i'm working on an export feature that's compatible with ES-DE gamelist.xml, and will export metadata along with all the images and saves/states. would that do the trick?
Thanks for chatting about this with me!
I'm glad you're working on that! In the case that RomM fails in some unpredictable way, I assume that export feature will also be broken, right?
I think the RomM is great! But I want it to add to my system, not be something that is required to access my data. The simple solution there IMO is to keep all (available) data and files related to a rom in the same directory as that rom.
I my example below, you can see my factorio files are spread across 4 directories. I understand how that might have happened during development of this project, but why not give users the option to store their data in an alternate (and I would argue superior) way?
so i'll admit this is a good idea, but given how much work this would be to support in the long run, and the fact that you can backup your DB and files in any number of ways, we're not going to take on this work.