Developed a less involved way to populate games for MiSTer (powershell)
Over the past couple of months, I developed Game Populator, a PowerShell based utility for preparing and copying game libraries tailored to the MiSTer environment. The idea behind this project was really just a more simple way for me to not have to manually copy files from multiple sources whenever preparing a drive (SMB share) for the MiSTer environment.
If you keep your downloads/backups in another location in another format or archived, this utility can be mapped to those locations and then copied to either a SMB share or an external USB drive. Whenever there is a console refresh or you have new files to add, you don't need to manually copy from multiple different locations.
After going through all the public console cores, I believe that everything possible is here to configure. If there is a new public released console, the repository will be updated. Additionally, if there is a public console or feature set that isn't included, let me know so that it can be possibly added.
Also has:
- Region support (based on file name)
- Folder subsetting at 256 files (changeable)
- HTGDB type naming scheme for add-ons like hacks, [T-En], etc.
If you have time, check it out - https://github.com/cosmickatamari/game-populator