Hacking Rominator for NDS

[nds_gamerz]

i'm getting an error code 1050 when trying to search, drag and drop games to flash card and when trying to do just something else i forgot. this happen last night and the site was down so i couldn't post. does anyone know what that means?


edit: well i just deleted the whole program and started from scratch and it works now. i guess i kepted updating my roms so much yesterday that it couldn't keep up with the games i had and just kept on crashing.

 

[buzzyon]

I'm having trouble copying games to my flash card when they are in .zip format. I keep getting "Error! There has been an internal error while trimming the rom." I disabled the automatically trim rom option but then I get "Error! There was an error while copying the rom to flash. It is possible that your rom or flash drive was ejected or the rom does not exist anymore." This only happens when the games are zipped. Great program btw.

 

[hankchill]

Dare I quote myself?

"I will no longer be responding to bug report threads on the message board. Please use Rominator Feedback or Suggestions to submit any issues you are having. Any further reports on the thread here will be ignored."

Well, it's not verbatim, but it's basically what I said.

 

[juggy]

i am running v 5.1 windows and there seems to be features missing - i can go to the rominator tool box to view box art
but other than that i don't have any box art and no details on the relaese - just the ipact and #
It doesn't look anything like the screenshot
is there a setting i have to change?

oh so dumb - sliding window i couldn't find - i sorted it out thanks for the great app!

 

[iritegood]

Hey everyone,

If you haven't seen the competition thread, I've released a piece of software exclusive to you guys, called Rominator for Nintendo DS. It's a fully functional rom manager with a bunch of cool features:

• Organize all of your game dumps in the area of your choice
• Drag & Drop right into the window
• Optional auto-renaming of your games (Including rom number, country, and release group)
• Optional Rom Trimming upon flashing (Safe Trim Included)
• Database updatable online through the program anytime
• Organize your games into as many lists as you want -- Just make a list, and from your Games list drag and drop as many games as you want onto your user-made list.
• Smart-List system - Create a list with specific criteria that will update when your rom library updates
• Detailed view of the game -- including internal name, cartridge code, icon, and box art
• Copy your games straight to your flash card
• Flash card organization - manage and delete roms
• Sub-Directory scanning -- keep your roms in their original folder
• Multiple colourful themes
• Save Game Association
• Fast-Find to quickly find the game you're looking for
• RomeR Functions: Modify Rom Information
• Create a queue list of roms and flash the list straight to your card
• Patch Trainers into roms on the fly
• Icon Collection Database -- Store all of your favourite icons
• And more!

You can download it below:
Rominator - For Mac OS X/Intel
Rominator - Windows
Rominator - Linux

Screenshot:

One thing I'd like to mention:
Rominator has actually cost me money to develop. In order to bring some great features to you guys, I've had to make a choice, whether or not to purchase the extra plugins for added functionality. I bit the bullet and purchased them, even though all the software I write is freeware. I don't expect anything in return for the work I've done, but if you want to help, you're more than welcome to donate something to support the development of Rominator, if you really like it. Donations can be sent in the form of PayPal to: henry -at- hankchill -dot- com

Feedback is always appreciated.

Regards,
--Henry


i am running v 5.1 windows and there seems to be features missing - i can go to the rominator tool box to view box art
but other than that i don't have any box art and no details on the relaese - just the ipact and #
It doesn't look anything like the screenshot
is there a setting i have to change?

Click file -> update
That screenshot is old, the newest version looks different. Features have been moved around.

 

[juggy]

I'm having trouble copying games to my flash card when they are in .zip format. I keep getting "Error! There has been an internal error while trimming the rom." I disabled the automatically trim rom option but then I get "Error! There was an error while copying the rom to flash. It is possible that your rom or flash drive was ejected or the rom does not exist anymore." This only happens when the games are zipped. Great program btw.Â

I Get this as well - can't seem to use rominator to transfer games to the ds

mine are zip'd and i have tried with trimming turned on and off

 

[suprneb]

i deleted the rominator program but i cant delete "._Rominator for Windows.exe" because it says that it is being used by another program?

 

[IBNobody]

I'm having trouble copying games to my flash card when they are in .zip format. I keep getting "Error! There has been an internal error while trimming the rom." I disabled the automatically trim rom option but then I get "Error! There was an error while copying the rom to flash. It is possible that your rom or flash drive was ejected or the rom does not exist anymore." This only happens when the games are zipped. Great program btw.Â

I Get this as well - can't seem to use rominator to transfer games to the ds

mine are zip'd and i have tried with trimming turned on and off

Henry knows about this. He's going to look into it once he gets a chance. Just be sure to file a bug report.

 

[rhyguy]

i deleted the rominator program but i cant delete "._Rominator for Windows.exe" because it says that it is being used by another program?

Restart and try, if that doesnt work, ctrl alt del and close all the processes in your username in except for taskmanager and explorer.exe and try again

 

[dividend]

Anyone else having this problem? For Brain Age, Cake Mania, Cooking Mama, Tetris, and WarioWare, the icons in Rominator 5.1 are there, but scrambled. However, when I click on Edit Internal Data, the icons are fine. I've tried various sources for each rom (untrimmed as well as trimmed with NDSTokyoTrim). The icons show up fine on my DS, it's just the main window in Rominator, they are scrambled. Not that big of a deal, but I thought I'd point it out. I'm using Vista. Here's a screen shot:

[img=http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/9653/rominatorssbg5.th.jpg]

 

[hankchill]

Anyone else having this problem? For Brain Age, Cake Mania, Cooking Mama, Tetris, and WarioWare, the icons in Rominator 5.1 are there, but scrambled. However, when I click on Edit Internal Data, the icons are fine. I've tried various sources for each rom (untrimmed as well as trimmed with NDSTokyoTrim). The icons show up fine on my DS, it's just the main window in Rominator, they are scrambled. Not that big of a deal, but I thought I'd point it out. I'm using Vista. Here's a screen shot:

[img=http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/9653/rominatorssbg5.th.jpg]

If anyone's icons ever get scrambled, just go into the Rominator Data folder and delete the cache.rsd file, and then relaunch Rominator. This has fixed the problem. It seems to be a Windows bug that I'll have to look in to.

 

[sumpm1]

Hi folks. Has anyone else gotten Rominator 5.1 to work with zip files? I filed a bug report, but got no email reply. I have all of my roms zipped after I renamed all of them with Rominator. Now Rominator doesn't recognize ANY of my zipped roms.

Edit: I took a couple of those zip files and changed their file extension to .rz and they are now recognized. Obviously, I don't want to use the .rz compression format since it is unknown and incompatible to winrar and other popular apps.

 

[hankchill]

Hi folks. Has anyone else gotten Rominator 5.1 to work with zip files? I filed a bug report, but got no email reply. I have all of my roms zipped after I renamed all of them with Rominator. Now Rominator doesn't recognize ANY of  my zipped roms.

Edit: I took a couple of those zip files and changed their file extension to .rz and they are now recognized. Obviously, I don't want to use the .rz compression format since it is unknown and incompatible to winrar and other popular apps.

You guys seriously don't listen at all, do you?

I mentioned in a post not too long ago that I am looking into it, stop reporting, you won't get a response.

If you change the extension to .rz and try to uncompress it, you'll just end up with a corrupt game. Simple as that.

.rz is not supposed to be known with winrar or winzip or any other apps - It was designed for use with Rominator and built specifically for usage with DS games, unlike the other compressions.

 

[starstremr]

which version is this one mine doesnt look like this

 

[hankchill]

which version is this one mine doesnt look like this

It's been mentioned multiple times, that was version 4.

 

[starstremr]

Also when i close Rominator 5.1 in windows XP Pro SP2 i get this

 

[shinji257]

Looks like your rsd files for rominator are corrupted. Delete them and try loading Rominator again. I will state that I do not get that crash at all here and I am also running XP SP2.

 

[starstremr]

ok i figured out what it was if you hit the red close X in the upper right corner it crashes but if you exit out through files then it is fine.

 

[Logan]

Apologies if this has been covered before, I'm just looking for a yes or no answer on this one.

All my roms are zipped and rominator won't pull the game icons for zipped roms correct?

So for the yes and no question - do I really have to unzip every rom, update rominator thus updating the game icons, then rezip every rom again!?

If the answer is yes, my next question, does someone have a zipped file of all the game icons I can download please!?

Many thanks

 

[hankchill]

Apologies if this has been covered before, I'm just looking for a yes or no answer on this one.

All my roms are zipped and rominator won't pull the game icons for zipped roms correct?

So for the yes and no question - do I really have to unzip every rom, update rominator thus updating the game icons, then rezip every rom again!?

If the answer is yes, my next question, does someone have a zipped file of all the game icons I can download please!?

Many thanks

No, you do not have to do that.

Bring your Zipped game into Rominator, click on it, and in the actions select 'Identify'. If the rom is the only thing in there, it will be recognized immediately. However, for the next release I will make the recognition a little more robust, so even if you have multiple files in the zip, it'll be able to pick out the NDS game... Just don't have 2 NDS files in a zip, you will confuse it

I'll be programming most of today on Rominator so I'll hopefully have a release tonight. I've taken everyone's suggestions and bug reports and am working on them right now

--Henry

EDIT: Been working on it for 7 hours straight. Phew!

I've taken a lot of the requests and pretty much added most of them in... some of them still remain, but I'll save that for the next revision. A bunch of bugs were fixed as well -- The bug that did not let you flash Zip files over in Windows has been fixed as well. There have been enough changes to warrant calling this v5.2

Update and Changelog will be released tonight.