But I have been working on GLManager quite a bit.
Seems like as soon as I get a feature finished, I think of another one to add.
Here is a current snapshot:
I have changed the search function a bit. I have also added a list that shows the roms you have that are not listed in the GLaunch emulator's list.
You can click on the tab called "Roms not in list" and it will show roms that are in your roms folder, but are not on your list.
From here you can test the rom, if it works add it to the list. If it doesnt work, you can add it to an "ignore list", so that the next time you click on the "Roms not in list" tab, the ignored roms will not be shown.
I will also have a button to display the ignored roms list, and a button to add them back to the "Roms not in list"' list. (This is what the buttons on the right of the screenshot above will be for.)
Just want everyone to know that I am still working on this project, and I hope to finish it up next month.
Till then, I appreciate any comments or suggestions you have for me.
Contact me at kenrager@hotmail.com
2 comments:
Hi. I like your program so far. I've been using GL for about a year now and really love it. I know a couple of things I'd like it to do that maybe you could add:
1. The option to add new roms from a floppy or USB. Currently it only allows new roms added from a CD. For me I only add one or 2 at a time and it is a waste of a CD to burn them onto one. (CD-RW's don't always work in older CD drives)
2. Will your program have a way to save the changes made on the game list so that when you add a new rom and re-run the "scan" it doesn't default back to the original config?
I found out the hard way that it doesn't remember and I have to go back through my entire list and change them all back again.
Hi ig-88.
Thanks for the input.
To answer your questions:
(1) Glmanager will be able to add new roms from a floppy or cd, and Im pretty sure from a usb device. I will have to check that out.
The roms will be added by copying the rom to the mame\roms folder on the hard drive.
GLmanager should do this for you in a very easy way.
The new rom is added to the GLaunch emulator list, and if the rom isnt already in the roms folder, it will be copied to it.
(2) GLmanager displays what is on your GLaunch list. If you make any changes, when you exit GLmanager, you will be asked if you want to save it.
If you save it, the changes you made are saved to the GLaunch list.
The GLaunch files affected by GLmanager are the .rom and .map files.
Example (for mame): mame.map (This is the list you see in GLaunch).
mame.rom (This is the list or roms that GLaunch "cross references").
About using the "scan" program that is included with GLaunch (I think it is called mamescan.exe):
I never could get that program to do right. Everytime I trie dto use it it would mess up my whole list, so I dont use it. Before writing GLManager, I create dthe mame.map and mame.rom files by hand, which is very hard if you have a lot of roms.
So I am writing GLmanager to take some of the work out of setting up GLaunch.
I think you will like it.
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