drpetersonfernandes/SimpleLauncher release5.0.0

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Refactored GameLauncher Architecture

• Replaced the monolithic conditional structure with a flexible, strategy-based pattern that dramatically improves extensibility for new emulators and platforms.
• Created emulator-specific configuration handlers (e.g., AresConfigHandler, XeniaConfigHandler, RaineConfigHandler) that manage pre-launch configuration dialogs and dynamically modify emulator settings files.
• Implemented launch strategy pattern (e.g., ChdToCueStrategy, XisoMountStrategy, ZipMountStrategy, DefaultLaunchStrategy) to handle diverse launch scenarios—including ISO mounting, archive extraction, format conversion, and direct execution—with clean, maintainable code.
• Integrated format conversion services for CHD-to-CUE/BIN, CHD-to-ISO, and RVZ-to-ISO transformations, expanding compatibility across emulators. For example, it can convert a CHD file to CUE/BIN on the fly if the emulator does not support CHD.

Configuration Injection Service

• Built a centralized service that programmatically injects settings into emulator configuration files.
• Supports 20+ emulators: Ares, Azahar, Blastem, Cemu, Daphne, Dolphin, DuckStation, Flycast, MAME, Mednafen, Mesen, PCSX2, Raine, Redream, RetroArch, RPCS3, Sega Model 2, Stella, Supermodel, Xenia, and Yumir.
• Xenia integration mirrors Xenia Manager's internal configuration injection functionality.

Enhanced RetroAchievements Integration

• Automatically injects RetroAchievements credentials into PCSX2, DuckStation, PPSSPP, Dolphin, Flycast, BizHawk, and RetroArch.
• Added RetroAchievements filter in MainWindow to quickly identify and display probable supported titles.
• Refined game hashing algorithms across multiple systems for accurate achievement tracking.

UI Enhancements

• Unified UI busy-state handling throughout the application to provide consistent blocking behavior and progress feedback across all major windows (MainWindow, Favorites, Search, etc.).

Code Quality Improvements

• Enhanced error handling for XML corruption.
• Fixed potential deadlocks in play history updates.
• Centralized system.xml load, edit, and delete operations into the SystemManager class.