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Title: SNES Rom Headers
Post by: JHansonJr on April 08, 2009, 04:05:22 pm

I am currently attempting to change the rom's name in the header in each of my SNES roms. I can not find a tool that will allow me to do so. All I can find are tools that would allow me to remove/add a header, and most of those programs are confusing to start with.

Are there any programs that will allow me to do this? I have access to WinXP, Mac OS X, and Mac OS 9.
I would also prefer something that is more simple, as I am in no way a programmer.

THX.

Title: Re: SNES Rom Headers
Post by: Space Fractal on April 08, 2009, 07:37:27 pm

why do you need that? Any frontends do just show the roms you have in the folder by using the filename (romsets by GoodTools or Tosec). The headers wont been used by a frontend and hence not needed to do anything with the header.

Title: Re: SNES Rom Headers
Post by: JHansonJr on April 08, 2009, 10:25:11 pm

I am using some roms on an emulator for Dreamcast. The roms are listed by the name in their header, and some of the names are disgustingly unorganized. I am making the disc for my son (7-y/o), and I'd like it to be easy for him to navigate.

Title: Re: SNES Rom Headers
Post by: daywane on April 08, 2009, 11:13:20 pm

SNES games are not that great on a dream cast are they?
PS2 is OK but Dreamcast  :dunno
EMU'S and Dreamcast and I do not get along very well
NES on PS1 is great. ( It Might Be NES)

Title: Re: SNES Rom Headers
Post by: JHansonJr on April 09, 2009, 12:09:24 am

SNES games are great on dreamcast. I have many emulators running on my dreamcast, but still trying to find a good PC Engine/Turbo Grafx emulator.

Kind of the same with my cabinet. Still trying to find a Turbo Grafx emulator that works with MaLa, and without a mouse.

Title: Re: SNES Rom Headers
Post by: JHansonJr on April 09, 2009, 05:05:51 pm

So, I'm guessing that renaming the Headers would be near impossible?

Title: Re: SNES Rom Headers
Post by: Space Fractal on April 09, 2009, 05:35:27 pm

Male have a keyboard hook feature, which should been exit MagicEngine when pressing ESCAPE, so no mouse is required there.

I mean there was some dos based editors seen at zophar.net, but how it is to day not really sure. If there is a document about these headers, it should been pretty easy to create a batch based tool do edit all roms based on the filename (pretty much that you see with ID3 tools today).

I remember I have tried a SNES on my Dreamcast to with many yaers ago, but not in fullspeed, even its a nice machine and you dosent need a bootchip to use homebrew software.