Hacking Rominator for NDS

[hankchill]

You may have heard these before, but being able to SRAM/sleep patch on the fly would be excellent.

Thanks for spending so much time on this, I appreciate it.

I guess you're talking about for GBA support right?

About that: I may not incorporate it just yet. The more I add into Rominator, the less stable it becomes, and I've been working very hard at recoding it to be completely stable. For now, until I get the NDS part just right, I will not add in GBA support as of yet. I may post up soon a screencast of the new Rominator though so you all can see where I am at

 

[Downloaderz]

can we please have a database update?

Ask and ye shall receive

(Actually, don't ask, because DB updates are a normal thing, so it's something that doesn't need to be requested

)

I didn't do the update last weekend because it was my birthday and I had a Rock Band party (minus the alcohol, we don't drink in our home), so I figured I deserved a week off

The database is online now though. I've also spent 12 hours yesterday crunching away at Rominator, and I plan to spend about another 9 today... let's see what I have for you guys

--Henry

Thanks for the latest db update, and looking forward to the next version with GBA support. A happy belated bday to you too, and you definately deserved the week off after all that you've done

 

[hankchill]

Thanks for the latest db update, and looking forward to the next version with GBA support. A happy belated bday to you too, and you definately deserved the week off after all that you've done

Thanks

I've made the teaser video, here's the link below:
http://www.hankchill.com/pictures/rominator2008teaser.mp4

If you can't play it, get the right codecs! Don't ask here. It's 15MB as well, so not dial-up friendly.

Enjoy

 

[Salamantis]

Thanks for the latest db update, and looking forward to the next version with GBA support. A happy belated bday to you too, and you definately deserved the week off after all that you've done

Thanks

I've made the teaser video, here's the link below:
http://www.hankchill.com/pictures/rominator2008teaser.mp4

If you can't play it, get the right codecs! Don't ask here. It's 15MB as well, so not dial-up friendly.

Enjoy

Man can't wait to beta test!

 

[resres]

Like a few people have stated already, I'm also having problems transferring roms. I disabled trimming, which helped get rid of one error, but another error still pops up. =p

But after watching that teaser, I think I'll just wait for that. =O

 

[Cline2]

Hi I love your program. everything works great only one problem I cant get this rom to identifying

I get error said

Extraction of "Over the Hedge - Hammy Goes Nuts.nds" failed. Creating destination file failed.

Other roms are ok except this. #639.

Thanks

 

[thefunkygibbon]

yeah I'm getting errors when trying to copy over any roms too.

still.. cant wait for 2008!

any chance you could implement some kind of screenshot/nfo downloading/db in it like NDSCRC? I only found that the other day and its great apart from it doesn't do the file management anywhere near as good as Rominator. would be awesome to have the best of both apps together.

 

[grahamtriggs]

is anyone else having problems renaming roms?

ever since I updated to 5.3.3 and the latest database update (can't say which one caused the issue, as I had done both since I last did a rename) - whenever I try to auto-rename a ROM that has been identified, it gives me an OutOfBoundsException

 

[sepinho]

is anyone else having problems renaming roms?

ever since I updated to 5.3.3 and the latest database update (can't say which one caused the issue, as I had done both since I last did a rename) - whenever I try to auto-rename a ROM that has been identified, it gives me an OutOfBoundsException

Same here! Has only affected three ROMs so far, so I have renamed them by hand, before I transferred them over to my flashcard. But in the long run, I'd very much love to have Rominator take care of that again.

 

[Damademan3]

i upgraded and all i get its errors. But as i understand he has fixes in the next big release. Its not hard to just rename by yourself but i understand how you would want it done by a program.

 

[TechnoCat]

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[Downloaderz]

Thanks for the latest db update, and looking forward to the next version with GBA support. A happy belated bday to you too, and you definately deserved the week off after all that you've done

Thanks

I've made the teaser video, here's the link below:
http://www.hankchill.com/pictures/rominator2008teaser.mp4

If you can't play it, get the right codecs! Don't ask here. It's 15MB as well, so not dial-up friendly.

Enjoy

Fantastic preview, I am now anticipating it even more.

Just a few questions though:
1) Do we have the option to show the game info on the main window like it is on v5.3.2?
2) I cant seem to locate the action button, is it now in the edit menu? Can we now select roms and right click it to rename them all? At the moment, it seems like we can only right click a single rom.

I love most of the new features i.e. view modes, homebrew/unknown icons

 

[TechnoCat]

Hank, have you considered keeping a dev blog with an rss feed option? Or do you have one and i don't know about it yet.

 

[hankchill]

Hank, have you considered keeping a dev blog with an rss feed option? Or do you have one and i don't know about it yet.

No. I think blogs are useless

Plus I don't have the time for it. I'd rather waste valuable energy actually doing something

Mind you, when I'm not so busy I may get my domain up and running and provide the latest updates there... but again, so busy.

Oh, and please take the video down from YouTube. I didn't put it up there for a reason. Not only do I want to keep Rominator to GBAtemp, but YouTube is low quality; you cannot see in detail what is happening. I'd rather not have a public video floating on the world's #1 retard dumping ground.

QUOTE1) Do we have the option to show the game info on the main window like it is on v5.3.2?
2) I cant seem to locate the action button, is it now in the edit menu? Can we now select roms and right click it to rename them all? At the moment, it seems like we can only right click a single rom.

1) No. The information will be permanently in a separate window, due to the amount of information about a single game. However, as you saw, you're more than able to set the view options to see game information in the list, such as header, country, publisher, etc.
2) The action button is no more. It all runs off contextual clicks. Now what do you mean you can only right click a single rom? I right click multiple all the time. The way it works is when you right click, it registers a left click in a listbox as well and then brings up the menu, so on the last game you select, hold Shift and right click it -- It'll select everything in between. I don't like the behaviour but it's something I may have no control over. We shall see.

Regards,
--Henry

 

[Downloaderz]

Thanks for your replies, Hankchill.

I guess using the view modes will work too, and thanks for your help with the menu (shift+right click), never realised that could do it.

 

[Tikker]

will the next version support networked drives?

 

[MyauChanDesu]

why does it say box art not available?

EDIT:

found the box art manager thingy~

but do i have to download them one by one?

 

[Downloaderz]

You can highlight them and download all instead.

 

[LordMelkor]

When's the next database update? i wanna add "the world ends with you" =_=

 

[redx113]

Hi Hank,

I have been using your program for several months now. Today I updated the app and got the latest database update. Upon trying to auto-rename selected I am getting this crash everytime. Anytime how to fix. This is the crash error

I am using XP SP2 with the latest patches.

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edit well nevermind. If this happens to anyone else. Remove the rominator data folder in both where you extracted and application data. Works fine after starting fresh.