Postby Exophase » Fri Jul 22, 2016 5:41 pm
Thanks xperia64.
I was hesitant to provide any directions for editing the database manually because you can't get the game code without using an external tool like a hex editor or another emulator. Right now DraStic only displays the game title in the load game dialog, and even then it doesn't clearly delimit the space padding which can be confusing. And since I don't have the ROM hack myself I couldn't say what the values are either.
We could make these printed more clearly, but what might be best is to have the emulator pop up a message if the game isn't in the database and have the user pick a save type/size, possibly with the option to add it to the database. But that would require knowing what those are supposed to be.
The emulator could also use heuristics to guess the save size like DeSmuME does, but I'm not a huge fan of that since it isn't guaranteed to work and with ROM hacks in particular who knows what they'll do.