Must rom folder names follow a standard?
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Must I follow the wiki to name folders like "nes", "snes", "vectrix" instead of "Nintendo Entertainment System", "Super Nintendo", "GCE Vectrix", etc.? I have a RP system and a LaunchBox system and the LB folder names are more descriptive. Additionally, it would make sense to keep my roms in the folders of the same names across builds.
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@flightrisk That's not a wiki standard/convention, it's the way the folders are set-up with the emulators, Runcommand and Emulationstation's configuration file.. These folders are created by the emulators' package installation and configured for the other components to find and use them, so you don't need to create them manually and renaming them would break a few things.
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the folders are set in away that is also easier for people to work from.
Spaces in filenames gets a bit tricky when writing code, and the shorter names make things alittle easier.
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I guess I will either change RocketLauncher/LaunchBox to the RP standard, or just have two separate folder structures. I can remember that "snes" is "super nintendo" ;) I do love the RP setup. Nothing beats the combination of RP, ES and RA for simplicity and features. I know I can do a few more things with RL/LB/BB/RA... but it's a lot more complicated!
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@flightrisk this is super old but symlinks are your friends
if you open terminal inside your retropie roms folder you could link your current setup and make a symlink that will work with retropie like
ln -s "/home/user/downloads/Super Nintendo Entertainment System" "/home/user/retropie/roms/snes"
ln -s makes a link between your source and your new fake symlinked folder
inside first quote is where ever your nicely named folder is and the second quote is where you want the new fake folder and as you see its names snes so retropie will use think it accessing a folder names snes but when it goes to snes the system forwards it to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System folder. idk i thought i would share as this is what i do to link to my other hard drive and it works awesome one folder for all systems to access i just make symlinks and all is well
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