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Title: GoodSNES Help
Post by: djll on September 06, 2003, 04:56:12 pm

I'm sure a lot of you pros here are experienced with the Good Tools.  I'm trying to collect a complete SNES set to put in my cabinet and I *think* I have them all, there is only one problem:

When I run GoodSNES it says that I have 3892 of 3900 ROMs.  GoodSNES creates a text file showing which ROMs you are missing.  When I open that text file it shows no files that I am missing and all it says is:

You are missing 0 of 4892 known Nintendo Super NES/Famicom ROMS (0.999.6 BETA)

I'm wondering where the error is?  I'm a perfectionist and want every ROM.  If I find out which ROMs I'm missing I can get them immediately.

Does anyone have any insight on this?

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re:GoodSNES Help
Post by: TalkingOctopus on September 06, 2003, 06:08:52 pm

I think you meant 4892 out of 4900.

On a side note, the good tools do identify all of the roms floating around, but you do NOT need all of the roms to have a complete super nintendo game set.  There are countless dupes and bad dumps.  Navigating through 4900 similar roms on a front end would be very obnoxious.  I have 800 SNES roms and cannot imagine why anyone would need 4000 more.

Sorry I could not figure out which 8 you're missing.  The same thing happened in my goodsnes results.   Perhaps it is a goodsnes bug?

Title: Re:GoodSNES Help
Post by: liquid8 on September 07, 2003, 10:47:01 am

Run a check  with Romcenter and see what you get..

LiQuiD8

Title: Re:GoodSNES Help
Post by: djll on September 07, 2003, 12:36:58 pm

Quote from: liquid8 on September 07, 2003, 10:47:01 am

Run a check  with Romcenter and see what you get..

LiQuiD8

nfortunately ROMCenter doesn't have the latest DAT for the SNES collection... It seems like the guy who did the DATs for ROMCenter has sorta stopped or something.

Title: Re:GoodSNES Help
Post by: liquid8 on September 09, 2003, 12:06:12 pm

I haven't used it but you should be able to use logiqx's Datutil to convert the clrmame dat to a romcenter dat. Grab it at www.logiqx.com

LiQuiD8

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It is possible to convert dats between ClrMamePro and RomCenter with ease. The
most simple way to convert from one format to the other is like this:

datutil <datfile>

This will convert a ClrMamePro dat (listinfo) to a RomCenter datafile or
a RomCenter datafile to a ClrMamePro dat. The new dat is called 'datutil.dat'.
If you want to specify a different output filename, use the '-o' option.

e.g. datutil -o clrmame.dat romcenter.dat

This would convert romcenter.dat, saving the new file as clrmame.dat.
There is also a '-a' option to append to an existing file. This is especially
useful when converting/extracting individual games (explained later).

Title: Re:GoodSNES Help
Post by: djll on September 09, 2003, 10:00:40 pm

Thanks liquid.  The only problem is the Good Tools don't use dat files.

Hmm...

Title: Re:GoodSNES Help
Post by: liquid8 on September 10, 2003, 05:23:54 pm

ahh.. my bad.. I thought you said you were using Clrmame.. that has 999.6, have you tried it there?

LiQuiD8