Add ROMs directly to Steam for launching

[icenine451]

A user reported:

I've been able to manage to launch specific roms via the CLI as flatpak run --command=dolphin-emu-wrapper net.retrodeck.retrodeck -e "/run/media/mmcblk0p1/retrodeck/roms/wii/Super Mario Galaxy 2 (USA) (En,Fr,Es).rvz" -b this makes possible to add them directly to the steam library

It may be possible to configure Steam ROM Manager to launch games directly through Steam using the RetroDECK flatpak.

[XargonWan]

Continuation of this: https://github.com/XargonWan/RetroDECK/issues/80

[Lx32]

Could be possible to add a game menu entry that permits to add the selected game to steam? Just like the custom "Retrodeck configurator" in the global menu.

[XargonWan]

This would need some resarch and maybe some C++ expert to deeply patch ES-DE. Not impossible tho.

We would need to gather the data that the menu is gathering when the selected game is launched and then the resoulting string (that is a bash command) should be passed to tho bash.

But with this method we may skip some important parts such a possible per-launch script that we may introduce in the future.

Another option should be integrate a cli to es-de to ask it to launch a specific game. But the C++ skills here should be even higher and at the moment none in the crew got these skills afaik.

[Lx32]

    read_dom () {
        local IFS=\>
        read -d \< ENTITY CONTENT
    }
    for system in PATH
    do
        while read_dom; do
            if [[ $ENTITY = "/game" ]]; then
                if [[ $fav = "true" ]]; then
                    echo $name
                fi
                name=""
                path=""
                fav=""
            elif [[ $ENTITY = "favorite" ]]; then
                fav=$CONTENT
            elif [[ $ENTITY = "path" ]]; then
                path=$CONTENT
            elif [[ $ENTITY = "name" ]]; then
                name=$CONTENT
            fi
        done < "$system/gamelist.xml"
    done

This is a simple bash script that I tried to integrate in the configurator. It parses the gamelist.xml file and gives he favorite games. I have only to fix the installation PATH, at the moment is hard coded, and then try to build the shortcut.vdf file for steam. I know that this will be only a temp fix but it is just to have the features, then can be refined by somebody.

[XargonWan]

Steps:

• [x] Add favorites to Steam (without auto deletion)
• [x] Initial Configurator Integration
• [x] Read alternate emulator data, game first, then system
• [x] Sync favorites to Steam (with deletion)
• [ ] Godot Integration
• [ ] Scrape the games on Steam (BoilR)

[XargonWan]

Some info were here: https://github.com/XargonWan/RetroDECK/issues/600