RomCenter v2.60

posted in Utility Release by spacetiger on Aug 7th, 2003

One of the leading utilities for repairing and sorting arcade ROMs is RomCenter. The latest version is compatible with Windows XP and has a long list of changes:

    GUI
  • Replace the 'split' and 'merge' check box by standart split, merge and un-merge radio button
  • Audit roms even if the game name is bad
  • Back button to go back to parent node (or backspace)
  • Arrow navigation in list view: left = parent node, right = child node
  • New parameters tab to handle new functions
  • New filter editbox in the toolbar. ex: display only verified gba games, or french snes..
  • Fix games parameters: select what a 'fix' must do
  • Select clone' function to select only clones in the focused node
  • Select Main' function to select only main games
  • Select no good dump known' function
  • Invert selection' to invert the current items selection
  • Create datafile of missing roms'
  • Create datafile of available roms'
  • Create datafile of selected roms'
  • Multiple drag and drop rom folder directly in the tree view
  • Replace 'crc' column by 'signature' column
  • Re-Activate move and copy button in scan window when changing datafiles
  • Swap 'remove useless roms' and '...files' in menu for consistency with contextual menus
  • Remove repeated system message when no cd is inserted
  • Display volume name of not-fixed paths
  • Fixed report bug when no paths added
  • Fixed parameters resolution when running a game
  • Change datutilx.exe to datutil.exe to use new versions
  • Fixed wrong icon in scan window (move/copy)
  • Refresh list after working in scan window

    Engine
  • Fixed some bugs in 'fix game', interface, offline cd..
  • Case handler: manual or automatic
  • Create dummy roms: create fake rom when no good dump are known
  • Option to ignore file extension proposed by a plug in
  • Support for non-hex signature
  • Fix message origin report when fixing corrupted zip
  • Skip lines beginnig with # in datafiles
  • Fix 'Invalide argument to date encode' message
  • Add 'bad date format' message

Go and get it at the Arcade Auditing Utilities section.

Thanks to Romany Saad for the news.