When developing or maintaining cheat codes for multiple games it can be a real nuisance that the filenames only show the SONY game ID codes, which are not very user-friendly. Memorizing more than a few of them can be a real chore, and it would be much easier to handle a lot of them if the filenames also contained the human-readable titles, appended after the game ID string.
Thus the cheat file for "Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness [US]", which is currently named "ULUS10308.ini" could instead be renamed "ULUS10308 Disgaea - Afternoon of Darkness (US).ini", or simply "ULUS10308 Disgaea 1.ini" for those who like brief names.
Very little should need to be changed in the program code in order to implement this, as it just requires changing the simple filename usage into a wildcard usage, allowing arbitrary wildcard strings between the first 9 character string and the ".ini" extension.
I had a similar problem some time ago with the PCSX2 emulator (even worse though, as they use game CRCs instead of fixed game IDs), and solved it by adding some wildcard code to a custom version of it, and this worked fine for all of my games, so the method is thoroughly tested. It just needs reimplementation for PPSSPP and the various platforms it is to run on. I'm not sure what platform independent libs you use for this development, but I am sure that some wildcard method can be implemented for all platforms.
The actual addition of these extra strings would be entirely optional and up to the user, though it might be a nice perk to also do it automatically in extracting cheats from a "cheat.db" file. Though in that case some care needs to be taken to convert any title characters that would be invalid in filenames. (colon, slash, backslash etc) This automatic addition of titles in extraction should be seen as a separate suggestion though, as the wildcard usage as such is the main thing here.
Best regards: dlanor
Thus the cheat file for "Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness [US]", which is currently named "ULUS10308.ini" could instead be renamed "ULUS10308 Disgaea - Afternoon of Darkness (US).ini", or simply "ULUS10308 Disgaea 1.ini" for those who like brief names.
Very little should need to be changed in the program code in order to implement this, as it just requires changing the simple filename usage into a wildcard usage, allowing arbitrary wildcard strings between the first 9 character string and the ".ini" extension.
I had a similar problem some time ago with the PCSX2 emulator (even worse though, as they use game CRCs instead of fixed game IDs), and solved it by adding some wildcard code to a custom version of it, and this worked fine for all of my games, so the method is thoroughly tested. It just needs reimplementation for PPSSPP and the various platforms it is to run on. I'm not sure what platform independent libs you use for this development, but I am sure that some wildcard method can be implemented for all platforms.
The actual addition of these extra strings would be entirely optional and up to the user, though it might be a nice perk to also do it automatically in extracting cheats from a "cheat.db" file. Though in that case some care needs to be taken to convert any title characters that would be invalid in filenames. (colon, slash, backslash etc) This automatic addition of titles in extraction should be seen as a separate suggestion though, as the wildcard usage as such is the main thing here.
Best regards: dlanor