Feature Suggestion: Game Profiles

[Teddy]

I'm not sure if this would be a good suggestion or not, but I would like to see a feature in PCSX which, if the game has been played before, load up all the configuration settings for that game.

For example, say I'm playing Chrono Cross, but then I want to play Valkyrie Profile. Both games might need (or I migth want) different graphics configurations, sound, etc, but instead of changing, the emu would auto-change config for me.

Of course, I might just be a nut, and it does this already, or should...

I also decided to post here, becasue I noticed this forum has the fewest posts of the emus, and I always like rooting for the small guy. PCSX was my choice ages ago, I started using it by chance, since I didn't have any idea which to pick :)

Cheers

[Galway no Sora]

AFAIK, PCSX uses hardware acceleration with plugins configs. Meanwhile our PC hardware, one and another are different, also the OS. That's not impossible IMO to make it auto change without testing. The only one "no need to re-configure" tools I know is for ePSXe, but I dont know if that available for PCSX. It's called ePSXeCutor. It can save the configuration for each game, but you need to manually select which game you want to play.

[Kane]

Well there is a frontend for PCSX. IIRC, the BATARD tool (aka Emufrontend) will do it.

[ammoQ]

How do these tools know where each plugin saves its configuration? I guess it's hardcoded for the most common plugins. Should the PCSX team ever consider extending the PSEmu API, it might be a good idea to add a "save_to/load_from" interface, so the main emu can tell the plugins to save the current configuration to a certain config file - or load the configuration from a specified config file.

[Kane]

I think the save locations are obtainable from the plugin API....
Doesn't PCSX already use the PSEmuPro interface?

[ammoQ]

I think the save locations are obtainable from the plugin API....
Doesn't PCSX already use the PSEmuPro interface?
No (AFAIK not obtainable) and Yes (uses PSEmuPro).

[Kane]

Sorry, I misread your comment. You said extending not using. (Minor finalight moment)
I dunno then....
/me waits for Beta or Xev to answer.