uCON64 v1.9.5

posted in Utility Release by outsider on Aug 17th, 2001

uCON64 is a tool to modify video game ROMs and to transfer ROMs to the different backup units/emulators that exist. Here's what's new:
  • after the update release of 1.9.4 i had a closer look at my sources and realized that my style heavily changed since 1.9.3 the result is that i had to make more changes in the source starting from ucon64.c Gilligan wrote a nice routine to read out NeoGeo Pocket roms (added) reorganized the whole source uCON64 is from now on cartridge only/CD based console systems will be supported in another project (see: ucon64.sourceforge.net)
  • added Gameboy Advance support
  • added (GBA) -n change ROM name; $FILE=NEWNAME
  • added (GBA) -logo restore ROM logo character data 0x04-0x9F
  • added (GBA) -chk fix ROM checksum
  • added (GB/GameGear/NES) -gg apply GameGenie code (permanent)
  • added (GB/GameGear/NES/GEN/SNES) -gge encode GameGenie code
  • added (GB/GameGear/NES/GEN/SNES) -gge decode GameGenie code
  • added (LYNX) -lyx convert to LYX/RAW (strip 64 Bytes LNX header)
  • added (LYNX) -lnx convert to LNX (uses default values for the header)
  • added (LYNX) -n change ROM name (LNX only); $FILE=NEWNAME
  • added (LYNX) -nrot set no rotation (LNX only)
  • added (LYNX) -rotl set rotation left (LNX only)
  • added (LYNX) -rotr set rotation right (LNX only)
  • added (LYNX) -b0 change Bank0 kBytes size (LNX only); $FILE={0,64,128,256,512}
  • added (LYNX) -b1 change Bank1 kBytes size (LNX only); $FILE={0,64,128,256,512}
  • added -idppf change PPF FILE_ID.DIZ (2.0); $ROM=PATCHFILE $FILE=FILE_ID.DIZ
  • added -strip strip Bytes from end of ROM; $FILE=VALUE
  • added -e emulate/run ROM (check INSTALL and $HOME/.ucon64rc for more)
  • added (GBA) -sram patch ROM for SRAM saving
  • added (GBA) -crp slow down Flash Advance Linker access for ROM (crash patch)
  • added (GBA) -strip strip Bytes from end of ROM (use -ispad before); $FILE=VALUE
  • added (GBA) -xfal send/receive to/from Flash Advance Linker; $FILE=PORT Download it at the General Utilities for Unix/Linux page. Thanks to Dirk for the news