Hey guys!

I've uploaded a boxart.rsd to my website, it contains all of the box art (up to 0896, I think) ... Feel free to download it if you like, that way you'll have pre-loaded boxart for every release!

Many thanks to Hank for the great app, and for sending the full boxart.rsd file!

Download boxart.rsd here!

 

Hey Hank,

I was wondering if you could maybe check your database for these games:

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Roms Owned: 888
Roms Missing: 18
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0065 - Tiger Woods PGA Tour (E) (M3)
0094 - Akumajou Dracula - Sougetsu no Juujika (J) (v1.1)
0195 - Simple DS Series Vol. 2 - The Billiards (J) (v1.1)
0288 - King Kong (E) (M10)
0310 - Minna no Mahjong DS (J) (v1.1)
0326 - Touch Dictionary (K) (v1.1)
0413 - Tetris DS (E) (M5)
0457 - Brain Training - How Old Is Your Brain? (E) (M6)
0483 - Bokujou Monogatari - Colobockle Station (J)
0495 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (E) (M5)
0496 - Touch Dictionary (K) (v1.2)
0497 - Monster House (U) (M2)
0601 - Scooby-Doo! Who's Watching Who? (U)
0702 - Eragon (E) (M5)
0703 - Asphalt Urban GT 2 (E) (M5)
0810 - Brick 'Em All (E)
0815 - Scooby-Doo! Who's Watching Who? (E)
0844 - PES 6 (Pro Evolution Soccer) (E) (M5) (v1.1)

I actually have them all, but ROMinator doesn't recognize them. I've tried downloading second and third copies for maybe five or six of them, but every time I try to add one to my game list, it says 'there is no info in the database for this ROM' ... Any ideas?

 

Hey Hank!

Thanks for the updates!

I found one more game that seems to be incorrectly identified in the database: 0582 (NTR-AMPE-USA) ... In ROMinator it shows up with the correct box art, but the name shows as "Shikakui Atama wo Maruku Suru - DS Kanji no Shou" which is actually the name for ROM # 0584. Therefore, when I try to rename the ROMs using "%t - %c" it gives me an error when it gets to 0584, because it's incorrectly naming 0582 with 0584's name.

Hope that makes sense. Anyway, thanks again for your hard work. This program is shaping up to be the best ROM manager out there!! Good job!

mavis

 

Theme Park box art is broken, only showing a small portion of the top image, just to let you know

 

I really like this, congrats to Hank on a fine piece of coding. I've used a few rom checkers / sorters / managers over the years and this one looks very promisiing.

Here's a few things i'd like to see included:

- view of box back art and nfo file
- resizable (scalable?) window
- zip/rar support
- sorted / stored files stored compressed.

- make this program a portable app - i.e. not use any registry or the like so that it can be used on any machine (i want to be able to put it on a USB pen and take it to work but have nothing stored on my work pc, just stored in it's own directory on the pen.

All in all though, excellent work.... thankyou very much :-)

 

Saw the 3.0 teaser. Looking great. Can't wait tell its out.

How does the cheat work? does it patch the rom?

 

Actually, I don't care about ZIP support (I have all 917 ROMs unzipped in one big folder) but your comment about loading quickly caught my eye. I would LOVE to see a database-style approach to file management - as it is now, ROMinator takes a VERY long time to scan all 917 ROMs, and it has to re-scan every time I switch to a different smart list, etc. It would be great if ROMinator stored my file data somehow, so that it didn't have to re-scan every time I open the program or switch game lists. Any chance of that happening in the future?

 

I agree with keeping untrimmed/unpatched roms. I only keep clean unpatched backups for the same reason. This is why Rominator will trim or patch your game as it's flashing to the card, leaving the original untouched.

And you're right, not everyone has huge HDD's, my laptop only has 80GB

Regards.

 

I still have my 40MB drive from my old Mac SE/30

And on top of that, I still have my Atari that required 5.5" floppys to run the OS.

Not like they're useful though I'm actually thinking of picking up a 500GB drive. I think it's only $150.

Regards.

 

Just a quick query ... I've added a couple of roms to my HDD but when I click to sort my name column, the roms I've added stay at the bottom of the list either way I have the name sorting. Any ideas?

Edit: I've noticed that the roms I've added are roms I've manually named prior to them having a proper release name in the database, I think that has something to do with it. When I view my roms on my R4, the other roms seem to have a space in the name before the title, then the roms I've manually added don't. Sounds confusing! Example:

Tetris DS (Rominator renamed)
Yoshis Island (Rominator renamed)
Garfields Nightmare (Manually renamed, then Rominator)
Theme Park (As with Garfield)