Friday, November 26, 2004

	Thursday, November 25, 2004

• Updated verify DATs: New CPS2 DATs have been released for both ClrMamePro and ROMCenter, and are now up to date with the latest version of MAME. You will find them on our Downloads page. - cyrussd • ClrMamePro 3.50: Roman released a new ClrMamePro for us to enjoy. Here is a list of what's new, and what he think we should know: Added Set-Subfolder support. This includes full scanner/rebuilder/merger/dir2dat set-subfolder support for zipped and unzipped sets. Set-Subfolders? Yes...you can have folderstructures for rom/samples/diskimages now...something like: rom (name namcopac.6j size 4096 crc 7a36fe55 sha1 01b) rom (name sub1pacman.5e size 4096 crc 0c944964 sha1 06e) rom (name sub1pacman.5f size 4096 crc 958fedf9 sha1 4a9) rom (name sub1sub282s123.7f size 32 crc 2fc650bd sha1 8d02) rom (name sub1sub282s126.4a size 256 crc 3eb3a8e4 sha1 1909) Added: profiler->clear cache button Misc: improved diskimage unneeded/wrong placed detection Misc: dir2dat doesn't include 0-byte files Misc: rebuilder beep is now a gobal setting Misc: some minor changes to cache load/save and backupfolder routines and some minor text changes Misc: replaced official buttonbar (old one is available in the buttons folder) Misc: changed backup behaviour. Only zip backup'ed files if they were in a zip before. This prevents unneeded chd files from being zipped Misc: changed rebuilder display from "x rebuilt | y skipped" to "x matched" since a match doesn't necessarily mean the file is being created. Fixed: fixmessagebox doubles the character & Fixed: rebuilder backup option wasn't used when working with zipped files. It used the settings backup..tsk tsk tsk Fixed: some uncatched exceptions in chd reading routines Some things you should know: You can use / or in the datfile. There is no subfolder limit in the datfile....this is limited by your OS. The character '`' (chr(96) iirc) is used internally. If you're using it in a rom/sample/etc name, it'll be converted to "'". You can't have empty folders statements. Tough luck... You can have equal files (same crc32 and/or same name) in different folders. Of course this can cause some trouble when a namechange happens. Set-Subfolder support is NOT the same as rompath-subfolder support. Think about it...you'll easily see the differences. Since samples don't have size or any hashvalue stored, clrmamepro's name check isn't used for samples. Now combined with samples in a subfolders, you can run into a missing sample subwav / unneeded sample wav issues. Some zipprograms add some special folder entry for subfolders. ClrMamePro doesn't and can optionally mark these space- asting structures as unneeded. The extra structure is NOT needed and is NOT zip standard anyway. Since it's the first release with set-subfolder support...test it if you find something suspicious, lemme know. I can't see all possible sideeffects by now so it's your own risk to use it Grab it from the Downloads page - lux_92886

	Saturday, November 20, 2004

• New XOR: Release 116: Street Fighter Zero 3 (Japan 980904). Raz has given us another release. This makes two within a 3 month period! It's good to see the CPS2 scene is still moving. Get your hot little hands on it from our Downloads page. - lux_92886 • Kawaks 1.50: Raz has releasesd a new Kawaks also to keep it up to date with the latest ROM name changes etc. Here is a list of what's new: New drivers: D&D: Tower of Doom (Japan 940125) Street Fighter Zero 3 (Japan 980904) Street Fighter II' - C.E. (Hack M1-M7) Street Fighter II' - C.E. (Turyu) Street Fighter II' - H.F. (World 921209) Ninja Combat (set 2) 2020 Super Baseball (set 2) V Liner Combat (set 2) Ghostlop (prototype) Renamed MSHJ to MSHJR1. Renamed DDTODJ to DDTOTJR1. Renamed VHUNTJR1 to VHUNTJR2. Changed 2020 Super Baseball to match MAME. Changed Street Fighter Alpha to match MAME. Changed Cyberbots sets to match MAME. Changed Dynasty Wars World and Japan ROMs and names to match MAME 086u4. Added a kludge to stop Johns megasmasher super move in AOF2 to freeze. Fixed the graphic glitches in the game ending text with kof99 when you beat the game using the team with Ryo,Robert,Yuri and Takuma in. Grab it from our Downloads page - lux_92886

	Friday, November 12, 2004

• ClrMame 3.45 and 3.45a: Yeah they came out. But since no one visits this page anymore, no one cared to post about it. Here is a list of what's new: 3.45a (09-Nov-2004) misc: no textlimit for rebuilder source/destination combobox added: profiler (popupmenu) Garbage Collection...kills unused fsc/cmp/scn/log files 3.45 (09-Nov-2004) added: scanner/rebuilder quickjump to scanner/rebuilder added: save fix-datfile (incomplete sets only) added: warningswindow -> move file to folder... added: rebuilder source/destination history added: rebuilder advanced option: remove empty source subfolder misc: profiler info shows missing roms, too and % of completeness misc: have/miss list last folder is stored by profile now (not globally) misc: rechecked replacement of illegal chars in names/descriptions misc: Profiler->Add Datfile Filebrowser accepts multiple selections Grab it from our Downloads page. - lux_92886