[Scummvm-devel] Another plugin question

[yotam barnoy]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Marcus Comstedt <marcus at mc.pp.se> wrote:

>
> Max Horn <max at quendi.de> writes:
>
> >> -- how often does one add games anyway?
> >
> > On the DC: Possibly every time you want to play, if I understand
> > correctly... :)
>
> Yes.  Every time ScummVM boots, or you swap discs on the initial
> screen, the disc is automatically scanned and the games added to
> a menu where you can select which game to run.
>
> Having a persistant database into which games are manually
> "added" makes no sense for a system with only removable media.
> (Besides, where would you save said database?  On a memory card,
>  which is itself removable?  Makes even less sense.)
>
>
>  // Marcus
>
>
Yeah those are some really annoying limitations. I guess what the DC could
do long term is load all the detection plugin code, and load the more
mainstream plugins into memory too. If a less popular game was chosen, you
ask to insert the original scummvm disc. This way all the engines can be
detected even once all the plugins are too big to be loaded into memory.

Yotam
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