Changing Arcade ROM Titles

ROMs for Final Burn Alpha and MAME have to have a specific title to work.  But that title looks ugly and is sometimes hard to tell what it is.  WiiFlow doesn't provide custom titles for plugin ROM games.  But here's a trick by Maxternal that allows you to change them to your liking.

In the plugin .ini file look for these two lines (filetypes and arguments):

filetypes=.zip

arguments={device}:/{path}/{name}

Let's say you have  a ROM named blktiger.zip in sd:/ROMS like this:

sd:/ROMS/blktiger.zip

Now create a dummy file (0 byte file) with the name you want it to be (ex. Black Tiger).  Here's how - Use a text editor such as notepad++ or whatever and create a new TXT file with no text and name it the name you want. The extension doesn't matter (.txt is fine).

Put it in a subfolder of ROMS with the same name as the game (blktiger without the extension) so you'd end up with

sd:/ROMS/blktiger.zip

AND

sd:/ROMS/blktiger/Black Tiger.txt

and change the plugin INI file so that it says

filetypes=.txt

arguments={device}:/{path}.zip

WiiFlow will now use the name of the TXT file as the title but still launch the correct rom ZIP file.

The cover name must be the name of the TXT file with extension plus .png (ex. Black Tiger.txt.png).

Don't forget to do Reload Cache after you make any changes.

Thanks, Maxternal for the workaround.