Gb-studio: [Feature] ROM builds should use game name and titlescreen as "thumbnail"

[timsamoff]

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Feature.

• What is the current behavior?

1. Building ROMs outputs files with the name "game."

2, Viewing a ROM in an emulator, such as OpenEmu, shows a rainbow thumbnail.

• If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce and if possible a minimal demo of the problem

Build a ROM and view it in OpenEmu.

• What is the expected behavior?

The ROM would have the name of the game and the emulator thumbnail would be the titlescreen of the game.

• What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

The current behavior will create a lot of games called "game," all with the same thumbnail.

• Please tell us about your environment:

  • Version: 1.0.0
  • Platform: macOS

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(I changed the name of my ROM files manually.)

[chrismaltby]

Set the ROM filename to match the project name is a good idea.
Unfortunately it won't be possible to set the OpenEmu thumbnail, it's my understanding those images come from a private video game artwork library, though you're able to manually set your own.

[timsamoff]

Set the ROM filename to match the project name is a good idea.
Unfortunately it won't be possible to set the OpenEmu thumbnail, it's my understanding those images come from a private video game artwork library, though you're able to manually set your own.

@chrismaltby: What if we could specify a Background as the "cover art" for the game and when a ROM was built, it would copy that file as a PNG to the rom directory?

That way, when players download the game, they will get everything needed for the variety of emulators out there.

(Just a thought.)