Romcenter

RomCenter wrote:I'm leaving tomorow for 12 days.

Hopefully on vacation.

Anyway, have a nice time, whatever you do.

some have red x's on them so do not why is this and what can i do to fix them? These are called "bad dumps". People have tried to extract (dumped) the original rom contents into files but the whole process has not been successful (yet), either because the roms are encrypted with an algorithm that h...

RomCenter wrote:No, you can't. But it could be a new option in a future version.

Yup, that might be useful. Since the games are playable without the samples, it would be nice to be able to see them in green somehow.

2 Eric, a question about samples in MAME: What if one does not not have/wish to include samples in the roms at all? For example, i have no samples at all. Still, RC shows in red all roms that contain samples. Can i somehow tell RC to ignore missing samples so the roms will be colored in green inste...

RomCenter wrote:As soon as the translation file is ok, I will publish the final version.

Great news Eric. Thanks for the info.

AFAIK, there are no plans for releasing version 3 very soon. Eric has not said anything about releasing a new version next week anyway ;) . It seems there are still a few things to be done so i wouldn't expect a final version in the very near future. Also, it seems that the checks and the resulting ...

RomCenter wrote:I'm not sure it concerns a lot of people. Anyway, I add it to the todo list.

Yes, it will probably concern only me(!) If it's not too much trouble, i'd appreciate it, thanks. It's not that important of course...

The "open path in explorer" does not call a particular explorer. It just tell windows to open the path. It will open with the default one. Yes, assuming you have replaced the default "Windows explorer" with another one everywhere in Windows. I'm not talking about this, i'm just talking about using ...

Hi Eric I've taken a quick look at the new beta and i have a few "first-look" comments. 1. Maximize RC window, then close and restart RC. Even though the window is maximized when it starts the second time, it does not cover the whole screen. rc3b2max.png 2. Load a database from the menu. At that poi...

Yup. Also the Links page is not working and the Downloads page is still displaying the News page (in my PC, with Firefox at least). I don't know if this is supposed to work like this though...

I'M running RomCenter 2.71 and it tell me I have 25 bad Roms but MAME 0.123 tell me I have 17 bad Roms can someone make RomCenter see if it is Best Available to make it Yellow and not Red it makes it hard for me to see witch ones really do not work :) thanks in Advance. Hello Please try checking yo...

Ini file move to "userappdata" windows directory. But you can put it elsewhere by editing the file romcenter/startup.ini Thanks for the info. Maybe there could be another dialog in the settings which lets one edit it from the UI? Hmmm, this could prove to be messy. If RC gives the user the ability ...

Yes, since no registry or external dll are used, you can easily build a zipped version. :) I was thinking more of you releasing such a version, along with the "installer" one. There may be people who prefer to simply unpack files instead of installing them (i'm one of them! :) ). It's not a big dea...

Great news. Thanks Eric. I have an installation question. Since RC is more portable now than in the past, do you think a "zipped" RC version is possible (without the installer - like the alpha releases)? Settings (which now are placed in AppData folder - great) could exist in the zip under a "data" ...

Funny. The same thing happens if you run RC under linux using wine (take a look at this thread).

Hello

Try to confirm that those roms you have are compatible with that mame version (0.62). Perhaps they need a slightly older or younger mame. The next step would be to search around for rom sites or try the newsgroups (alt.binaries.emulators.mame).

The creation of a startup.ini is very different that to store the romcenter.ini in 'program files'. This startup.ini will only store the path to the data folder. If you want to change that path, you will have to confirm to vista that you really want to do it. And that's all. romcenter.ini is update...

Hi Eric I have not forgotten this, it just requires some time to re-setup the removable trays in both PCs (which i had removed) and do the test. Unfortunately i'm currently swamped by a zillion other things (you know, deadlines hunting me and other similar stuff) so this is probably something i will...

Hi

I had also made similar comments in this thread. I support "%APPDATA%\romcenter" as the folder to store RC's settings (instead of "My Documents") and i would also like to be able to use RC's installation folder to store romcenter.ini.

RomCenter wrote:If I post an update to romcenter.exe which displays the device id when inserted, do you have the possibility to do some test ?

Yes but i'll probably do them in the weekend.

I don't know if the routine that gets the device id is different in RC3 than what it was in RC2. I should clarify here that i've noticed this behavior in RC2 (at least about 6 months ago). Specifically, i had a 3.5" HDD connected (using a removable tray) directly to the motherboard and i used the HD...

I understand the general idea is to protect the user from making a mistake but if the user knows what he is doing (or think he does ) then it complicates things. It could be enabled by default but have an ini option to disable it.

If I simply remove the id and only keep the name, does it solves the problem ? Hi Eric Yes, it would probably make things simpler. I wonder, what's the reason for having this validation? In Windows you can assign fixed drive letters to removable disks so there is little chance of making a mistake. ...

Hello Each rom path is located on a disk (CD, HDD, Flash-disk, etc). For RC2, each connected disk on a PC has a unique ID which is stored in romcenter.ini along with the rom path at the moment you open it. If the rom path is on a removable disk then each time you reconnect it on the PC, it receives ...

Ahh, thanks. but why can't I delete when it is selected from the parent node so I can select all? Whenever I try to delete one, it says "Operation completed successfully" in an error window with the "red X" image. When it returns, the rom image is still there. Hi Ikono I'm not really sure if what y...

Ahh, thanks. but why can't I delete when it is selected from the parent node so I can select all? I can't be sure but i assume the reason is because you may have several open rom paths containing the files. In that case what should happen? Should they be deleted from all rom paths? You probably don...

i can not add the rom directory on my hd to rom center is there any way to put in in the ini file so i can have it read my roms? First you have to select your datafile in the list (combobox) that appears in the toolbar in order to be able to add a rompath. If you have done that, try drag-n-drop fro...

- IMHO instead of using %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\romcenter to store RC's settings files, %APPDATA%\romcenter should be used. It seems more appropriate. After some thought, having the settings under either those locations does not seem very convenient. I have RC along with MAME roms on a portable ...

Hi Ikono.

Try them under a Rom path, not under the "Games Database" path.

First of all, my congrats for the excellent work in the visual part of RC. With all the new icons is seems a lot better. Here are some (mostly visual) comments on RC3.00a5, generated after testing it under Win2K. - The height of the header of the files list should be at least 3 pixels larger because...