QoL improvements suggestions

[Yrouel]

Here's a few suggestions for small(ish) but nice enhancements:

If no custom path (-p) is specified and the path of the input rom is not on the microsd (no "Nintendo 3DS" folder detected) use /nds as default (and tell the user) and/or have a settings file to specify it once.
This will enable a really quick generation with just ./generator rom.nds

If no makerom/bannertool are in the folder try to use the ones installed in the system in the PATH

Local assets repository? Try to use local custom banner assets from the data folder (same existing folder structure) to streamline testing of new assets (this even if no -b and or -s options are specified) (also again tell te user)

Asset validation? This might be less trivial but it'll be nice to know with reasonable confidence if the image and/or the sound file are the correct size/format when creating a forwarder

[lifehackerhansol]

First one sounds "ok", atm it is doing exactly what Forwarder3-DS is doing. But I suppose doing /roms/nds isn't bad since TWiLight provides something like that by default.

I haven't thought about makerom/bannertool in PATH, but I provide one anyway so I'm not sure why it'd be necessary. Might stop macOS from complaining, maybe.

I've been thinking about local assets, should I disappear and my API dies. Perhaps as a sort of "cache". That one is on my to-do list.

For asset validation, I may do it with sound. For images I can just resize the hell out of them. Which is already being done unless the banner is pulled from the custom assets repo. I think how I'm doing is working though.

[Yrouel]

I thought Forwarder3-DS had a default path but perhaps I'm misremembering. Anyway having a default one basically means the process gets super streamlined (and yeah /roms/nds is tidier),

makerom/bannertool in PATH came in mind when I was trying the generator directly from a checkout.

Regarding local assets you also make a good point. I was thinking more from the point of view of making new ones it'll be easier to dump them in such local repo and have the generator pick them up automatically and also combined with point one will streamline this part of the process as well

I agree that asset validation is mostly for sound

[lifehackerhansol]

For now, I think we've reached feature parity with Forwarder3-DS. Custom path input is now possible in the GUI in the next release.

I will work on these points afterwards.