Homebrew Oldies Others Homebrew app Introducing: Evercade Collection Builder

[rossbusters]

I am not "sponsored" in any way. EverSD just happens to be the only commercial product [that I've found] which means a website with decent stock photos/renders of it exists. I needed a thumbnail that got the point across and I'm no artist, what can I say... Maybe one day a person with PCB design experience will bring a new product to the market and there will be another product name to throw around. Then it won't be as one-sided, like with the saying, "I need to Xerox a document"...

Post automatically merged: Oct 27, 2023

The easy solution to that IMHO is to either create and store your own jsons for the first 14 carts that this statement is true for or just keep an internal name database for the ROMs on those 14 carts. Sure, It will be a PITA for you on day one to create it, but it's not like that situation would ever present itself again in the future. A simple text file with "romName, friendlyName" would cover you. If my calculations are correct, there are 160 games across those 14 carts you would need to do this for.

If there is any info I can provide you with to help you reach your goal, just let me know. Maybe in exchange you would consider letting me "beta test" the fruits of your labor? No obligation of course. I just like playing with new toys.

Hi. Awesome job. Is there any way of using it without the VS to backup carts?

 

[esmith13]

Hi. Awesome job. Is there any way of using it without the VS to backup carts?

Patched Super Pockets can make backups too.

 

[rossbusters]

Patched Super Pockets can make backups too.

Oh really may I ask how to do that please?

 

[esmith13]

Oh really may I ask how to do that please?

You have to patch your Super Pocket, like I said. The software to make backups is added by the patcher. If you aren't patched, don't know how to patch or need help with using that stuff you should ask in the EverSD Discord server where they give support for that stuff. None of that is part of Collection Builder. My software just makes use of the backups that patcher allows you to create.

EverSD Discord Server: https://eversd.com/discord

 

[esmith13]

Evercade Collection Builder v3.1b has been released!

• ECB now has a filtering & favorites function to allow displaying only chosen carts on screen
• The NeoGeo Arcade 1 cartrisge has an option to use the bonus cover art in ECB
• An ANSI color bug was finally squashed that messed up script coloring when adding a cart that didn't yet have assets available

Link to the EverSD discord & full changelog are in the first post.


NOTE:
All previous version of ECB are now considered defunct.
Support & assets will only be provided for v3.0b and newer.

 

[esmith13]

Evercade Collection Builder v3.2b has been released!

• ECB now detects if Neo Geo Arcade 2 and 3 are added to the collection and asks at the end of execution if you want to replace the standard art with the bonus/flip side art.
• You are now asked at the beginning of execution if you want to change optional cover arts for cartridges already in your collection. This will allow you to swap back and forth between standard and special edition/bonus artwork.
• Resolved a minor bug when trying to set custom (favorites) as your cartridge display filter when you have no favorites defined in the "_custom_filter.txt" file.

Link to the EverSD discord & full changelog are in the first post.