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Title: ShotReporter: Check for missing Shots
Post by: liquid8 on August 26, 2003, 12:05:05 am: http://www25.brinkster.com/firecrackerfe/

This is hopefully a useful utility for those that are creating screenshot packages, as well as anyone that wants to see what shots they may be missing.

Slapped this together real quick.. so it may still throw an error or two out there. Let me know if you want and I will fix it.

It is written in VB.Net, so the .Net Framework is required. If you do not already have this installed, you will need to download it.. I know, irritating, but you'll need it eventually anyways.

Download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=262D25E3-F589-4842-8157-034D1E7CF3A3&displaylang=en

Any questions, comments, complaints...

LiQuiD8
liquid8d@hotmail.com
Title: Re:ShotReporter: Check for missing Shots
Post by: Howard_Casto on August 26, 2003, 12:39:26 am: The work is appreciated, but there is a far easier way. Open both your rom folders and your aw folder. If the filenumbers don't match then you are missing shots. Also my aw renaming utility alredy counts the number of aw pieces you have compared to the total number of roms. ;)
Title: Re:ShotReporter: Check for missing Shots
Post by: Minwah on August 26, 2003, 05:37:13 am: Quote from: Howard_Casto on August 26, 2003, 12:39:26 am
The work is appreciated, but there is a far easier way. Open both your rom folders and your aw folder. If the filenumbers don't match then you are missing shots. Also my aw renaming utility alredy counts the number of aw pieces you have compared to the total number of roms. ;)

If I understand correctly, Liquid8's program shows up exactly which artwork files are missing tho - rather than just how many.

I'll give it a try when I get home...
Title: Re:ShotReporter: Check for missing Shots
Post by: stuzza on August 26, 2003, 06:00:42 am: Great Program! Just what I was after. I suppose now I'll have to go and find all my missing snaps.... ;D
Title: Re:ShotReporter: Check for missing Shots
Post by: Demon-Seed on August 26, 2003, 01:05:49 pm: Hey
Where can on dl the full or almost full MAME flyers and snaps? crashes site is great for SNAPS BUT flyers?
Title: Re:ShotReporter: Check for missing Shots
Post by: CM on August 26, 2003, 01:42:26 pm: Quote from: Demon-Seed on August 26, 2003, 01:05:49 pm
Hey
Where can on dl the full or almost full MAME flyers and snaps? crashes site is great for SNAPS BUT flyers?

There's this http://www.arcadeflyers.com/ (http://www.arcadeflyers.com/)
Title: Re:ShotReporter: Check for missing Shots
Post by: Demon-Seed on August 26, 2003, 05:28:49 pm: Hi
Ok I went there and too dl u need to sign up or make an account for that bs.. is there any place i can get them and NOT do that? good site though
Title: Re:ShotReporter: Check for missing Shots
Post by: Krynos on August 26, 2003, 06:10:30 pm: I've been looking for a complete or close to it snaps download... sounds like you know where one is, could you tell me?

I did about 200 by hand.. it will take forever to do the rest...

- Krynos
Title: Re:ShotReporter: Check for missing Shots
Post by: Minwah on August 26, 2003, 07:04:17 pm: I just gave it a try - works great :)

One request if you fancy it:

I don't bother to have snaps of clones, if they are the same as the parent - eg 1942 (set 1), 1942 (set 2), 1942 (set 3) are all visually the same (more or less). In fact, I dislike having different snaps for each clone. Of course some clones are worth having the different shot, if there are Japanese clones with different title screens or whatever...

Anyway, it would be great if there were a tickbox or something that would allow you to get it to ignore missing clone images, if the parent's image is there. So my 1500odd missing snaps would be greatly reduced!

What do you think?
Title: Re:ShotReporter: Check for missing Shots
Post by: Krynos on August 26, 2003, 07:15:08 pm: Nevermind :) Found full set of snaps and all is well with the world again!

- Krynos
Title: Re:ShotReporter: Check for missing Shots
Post by: TalkingOctopus on August 26, 2003, 11:03:46 pm: This is great - a big help, and knowing the names of which ones you are missing is much better than knowing how many you are missing.

Nice Work!
Title: Re:ShotReporter: Check for missing Shots
Post by: liquid8 on August 26, 2003, 11:23:43 pm: Glad the utility is useful :) i was starting to wonder how everyone could tell if they had done all the shots for a specific country..were you just manually going through the whole list? Now you can filter to search for specifics with good-named files. Forgot to mention - it looks for .png,.jpg,.gif, and .bmp - just in case you may have files in other formats..

I didn't really think about clones, that would be useful.. I don't really use Mame that much.. what should I use to check clone names, mameinfo.dat? I wanted to eventually do a info dat file for consoles with clone info, so I would like to get that working.

LiQuiD8
Title: Re:ShotReporter: Check for missing Shots
Post by: Minwah on August 27, 2003, 02:02:39 pm: Quote from: liquid8 on August 26, 2003, 11:23:43 pm
I didn't really think about clones, that would be useful.. I don't really use Mame that much.. what should I use to check clone names, mameinfo.dat? I wanted to eventually do a info dat file for consoles with clone info, so I would like to get that working.

You could use 'mame -listinfo'. Your program wouldn't really need to do this - if you plan to support dat files in the future you could allow the user to make the dat using mame -listinfo > mame.dat, it isn't difficult. If you plan making console dats, make sure they are in the same format (clrmame style).

Good thinking about the other image formats :). Maybe add PCX to the list though as ZSNES uses this format.