Additional/custom fields for game details

[By6r9]

Game details window lacks some fields.

For LaunchBox parity:
Region, Version, Age Rating, Added, Modified, Last Played, Play Count, Source, Status, Play Mode, Series, Alternate Name
Game Manual Path, Game Music Path, Game Video Path

For MAME/Arcade emulators:
Clone of, Romset, Status, Graphics status, Sound status, Mechanical machine, Rotation/Screen Orientation, Display Count, Display Type, AltRomname, AltTilte, Buttons (and some more...)

[Snorrp]

Yuss, how far along would you say these are.

[JosefNemec]

@Snorrp Not sooner than 4.0, which is at least a month away.

[Snorrp]

Ah that's not too bad, you work at a good pace.

[curdh]

Maybe it could exist an optional field to set the shortcut name? Just to avoid problems when a game's name have special characters like ":"

[JosefNemec]

What problem is there with shortcuts? I don't think it's a worth it to create separate field just for shortcut name, but we should fix any issues with shortcut creation if there are any.

[curdh]

Yes i agree. The problem is when a game's name has special characters, the shortcut changes it for another character. For example a shortcut for "Half-Life 2: Episode One" will result in "Half-Life 2_ Episode One".
I didn't wanted to create another issue for this so i thought it could be "fixed" with a custom field.

[JosefNemec]

Please open new issue for it, it will be easy to fix.

[JosefNemec]

I'm going to add following fields as part of this issue:
Added
Modified
Last Played
Play Count
Series
Version
Age Rating
Region

These will be added as part of #273:
Rating
Critic Rating
Community Rating

And "Status" as part of #281

Full support for custom fields will be done as part of #502

"Game Manual Path" will be done in #503 (we also need an option to actually utilize it in Playnite from game menus)

"Game Music Path" and "Game Video Path" will be done as part of #358

And finally "Play Mode" can be supplied with tags based on what I saw how it's used in LaunchBox.

I'm going to leave out all fields for MAME/Arcade because they feel way too specific and it doesn't make much sense to include them for now since we don't have any specific integration for MAME or other arcade emulators.

[JosefNemec]

I forgot about "Source", what is it used for?

[By6r9]

Status = Whatever you want to use it for (Complete, Missing Artwork, etc.)
Source = Meant to be Steam, Digital Download, Physical Disc, etc., but again, whatever you want to use it for

https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/29689-please-explain-these-fields/
Closest thing in Playnite would be 'Provider', which is not editable now.

[By6r9]

I realized that I missed another important field - Disc number for games released on multiple discs. I guess it could be added with #159, but it is worth mentioning, so you can plan Game Details layout ahead.
There are also 5¼-inch floppies, with Side A and Side B.
TOSEC naming scheme mix both those things, so you get things like:

Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar (1986)(Origin Systems)(Disk 1 of 2 Side A)[cr ECA]
Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar (1986)(Origin Systems)(Disk 1 of 2 Side B)
Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar (1986)(Origin Systems)(Disk 2 of 2 Side A)
Ultima IV - Quest of the Avatar (1986)(Origin Systems)(Disk 2 of 2 Side B)

[JosefNemec]

Released in 4.0