Additional Apps Bulk Adding

Additional Apps are a great way of having different versions of the same ROM under the same entry. That's perfect for things such as Romhacks, fan translations and retranslations and many other things.

As of right now, the process of adding additional apps to a game is very manual. It'd be nice to have an automated way of doing it to large amounts of files.

Some suggestions on how it could work: Option A) Drag and drop multiple files onto a game on Launchbox - Launchbox would ask if you want to add each of them as a different "additional app" for that game. The filename would be used as the additional app title by default.

Option B) Drag and drop a folder onto a game on Launchbox - same as above, but each file on the folder would be a different additional app.

Option C) Import "Additional Apps" folder: you would point Launchbox to a folder containing multiple additional apps for multiple games. The folder structure would look something like this:

[AdditionalAppsFolder]/[SystemName]/[GameTitle]/[File]

Ex.: ../Additional Apps/Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Mega Man X/Mega Man X - Hard Type.sfc ../Additional Apps/Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Mega Man X/Mega Man X - Soft Type.sfc ../Additional Apps/Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Mega Man X/Mega Man X MSU1.sfc ../Additional Apps/Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Mario World/Super Mario World Redrawn.sfc ../Additional Apps/Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Mario World/Kaizo Mario.sfc

By Importing the "Additional Apps" folder, each file would be added as an additional app to their respective games (it would match the folder title with the game title that's already imported to Launchbox). That way, you'd be able to import your entire romhack collection very fast, and have them all them be easily accessible from a single entry on Launchbox.

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