UI Suggestion: Load Game interface filter/search and other enhancement opportunities about bsnes HOT 4 OPEN

Under Settings → Emulator, there's an option "Use native file dialogs", which will make "Load Game" bring up the same file-picker dialog that every other application uses. I'm pretty sure the only reason not to use native file dialogs is because the custom ones let you override whether to emulate a PAL or NTSC SNES instead of auto-detecting. That's a pretty niche feature, and I wonder if it would be better to put that option somewhere else, and always use native file dialogs.

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I think the motivation is mostly being able to pick a .sfc/ folder, not just a .sfc file.

Still pretty niche, though. Does anyone except byuu use that? Does bsnes even still support it?

(I believe adding PAL/NTSC override is possible in the native file pickers on most OSes, though I suspect cramming that into hiro would be a mess.)

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That's the motivation for higan, but I recall being frustrated that bsnes couldn't pick a .sfc/ folder, so I don't think that's the case here.

I have no idea how complex it would be to add a custom Auto/NTSC/PAL control to native file-pickers, but if it's not too complex I'd take a PR for that.

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According to #44, native file-picker dialogs always use NTSC instead of Auto, limiting their usefulness somewhat. We'd need to fix that before considering dropping custom file-picker support.

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