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Calling any interested coders: rom management...and something more
demeth:
--- Quote ---Perhaps you're having trouble understanding my english: any torrent client can download roms.
What I'm asking for is an app that would download and replace only the contents of your directory.
--- End quote ---
However, ANY torrent client can download ANYthing. Bittorrent was initially used to offload the distribution of Linux isos, a perfectly reasonable approach given the hosting and funding situation at the time. He could (and did) argue that what the nasty users did was none of his concern. Hence, it was never created for the expressed purpose of infringing copyright, but that would be the case here; There's no gray area to speak off, it's pitch black -- hence, putting the developer at considerable risk. Emulation (given the current legal precendence) survives on the compatibility/curatorship role -- we need it to save outdated software requiring outdated or extinct hardware, and even that won't save you in every country. Thus, when it comes to satisfying some inherent need for collecting and managing every single little rom out there, you're on your own.
Gray_Area:
Well, anyways:
The initial content of this thread had to do with rom management. Everyone got side-tracked on the latter *BONUS* bit. So, why can't there be a three clicks and you're done manager?
qwench:
Maybe because it is over complicated ?
Many many cases to handle :
roms merged ? split ? unmerged ?
bios as well ?
and samples ?
chd in folder ? in zip ?
How to identify samples (they have no crc and no size) ? by their name ? confusing, or extension ? wav ? and now flc, mp3 and more ?
And identifying chd ? calculating sha-1 on the xGb files ? too long, getting it on the header ? which version ? v1 ? 2,3,4,5,... ?
Roms in a folder ? in nothing ? in a zip ? a 7z ? what next ?
Roms ? chd ? samples ? bios ? devices ? and next ? console ? computer ?
Main set or clone or bios or device or sample ?
What about roms inconsistencies ? Games with 5 times the same crc and different names ? merged roms not found in main set ? roms with Same crc in main and clone, but different names ? or same name with different crc?
How to identify roms with no crc ? sha-1? md5? or... ?
Moving roms ? from zip to 7z, zip to folder, folder to zip, folder to folder, zip to zip......
and more more more....
Good luck ;)
Gray_Area:
Is anyone else getting the idea somebody is back?
qwench:
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on February 14, 2012, 02:46:54 am ---- you click on a button called 'exe' or 'target' or 'target exe'
- you click another button called 'dir' or 'directory' or 'target directory'
- you press another button called 'fix'
And, hey, all your romz is correct!
--- End quote ---
In romcenter:
- you click file/open and select your exe
- you click file/add directory
- you select directory and click 'fix'
And, hey, all your romz are correct!
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