Wikipedia Lists1.02 ***Only for version 1.02*** -Not included in the main file because my host only allows 300k per file.... just extract in ROMbrary folder.
Added Quick links feature: Search for selected wiki game at various websites
(see below for screen shots)
GameFaqs: Get FAQs for selected game
Game Ranking: Get reviews for selected game
Replacement Docs: Get manuals for selected game
Moby Games: Good for cover art and reviews of old games
Added menus, keyboard short cuts and status bar (thanks to
Cheetah
)
Check Update option
Color scheme cycling (ctrl+s)
NavBar cycling (ctrl+n)
Removed Auto-browse feature.
Tweaked wiki import routine for PS3 and Revolution. If you have an emu for any of those, email me.
Improved the search of roms files titles in wiki's list.
Display bugs fixed
Changing the NavBar set when the Bar pic was not visible made the program crash.
NavBar did not always fit window's width.
Saving and loading bugs fixed
The last platform of the last manufacturer was not loaded.
1.01 ROMbrary101.rar
Mostly cosmetic changes
Buttons can be changed in the settings panel [added 2 new sets]
When saving a color scheme, the button set is also saved.
ROMbrary is a school project I made. It's pretty much like your typical MP3 library but made for the ROM collector in mind. It sorts and displays your ROMS and emulators in one convenient place. From there, you can launch the games if the emulator used supports command lines. IT IS NOT AN EMULATOR, you will need to get these and the games(ROMS) on your own. It also have a built in internet explorer browser that navigates automatically to find walkthroughs, faqs, cover art, manuals and a bunch of info....
NOTE: I don't know if there are legal or copyright issues in automatically linking to wikipedia with a program or reading their HTML code. If you know something about that, please e-mail me Install:
Extract the ROMbrary.rar archive in a new folder with winrar .
Extract the Wikipedia lists in the same folder..
Launch the ROMbrary.exe file
These are not provided to shrink the download size. Most should be on your system already. If you get error messages concerning these files, you will have to download them from one of these sites:
This is the main window when the screwdriver button is clicked (shows settings panel):
Lists:
Manufacturer: The manufacturers YOU have entered
Click the +, - , e buttons to add, remove or rename a manufacturer.
Platforms: The platforms you have added to the selected manufacturer
Click the +, - , e buttons to add, remove or rename a paltform
Select a plaform and set the path to the directory where your roms are located. NOTE: all roms for a given platform must be in ONE folder.
+ : You can add a platform from the list or type it's name. The list is populated by the HTM files in the wikigameslists subfolder (see wikipedia's list)
Emulators: All the emulators you have added to a platform
Click the +, - , e buttons to add, remove or rename an emulator
Select an emulator and set the path to the emulator ".exe"
Double clicking an emulator in the list will lauch it.
ROMs list: Lists all the files in the specified ROMs directory.
Will list ALL files in the Roms folder.
You can filter the file types with the box above the list( to modify the extensions list edit the ext.txt file)
Double clicking a file will try to lauch the game with the selected emulator. NOTE: will work only if the emulator supports command lines like this:
emu.exe "c:\roms\game.xxx".
Right-clicking a file will add it to the favorites list
When a ROM is selected, the program tries to find it in wikipedia's list (See below).
It compares the rom file name to the names in wiki's list and select the best match found. So the quality of the match will depend on how your file is named
This is not perfect! I'm not working for google!I built my own routine from scratch. It's pretty basic but gave me good results so far.
I also get weird matches sometimes. I'd say +90% of the games are found.
If a game is not in wiki's list, it will still select the best match and it will be a totally different game.
The estimated quality of the match is displayed in the box to the left of the address bar. The greener the better.
The best match is selected in wiki's list
Favorites: Your favorites games for a given platform
To remove the selected favorite, right click in the favorites list.
Wikipedia 's list :Shows all the games available for a given platform at wikipedia.org
The program gets the list from a copy of a wikipedia's games list web page saved in the wikigameslists subfolder
Several lists are provided in the download section, just unrar it in the ROMbrary folder.
To update a list or add a new list:
Go to wikipedia and search for "List of NES games", "List of Coleco games" etc.
Save the web page in the wikigamelists folder and rename it to whatever you want it to appear in the "add platform list". (except for NES, AMIGA and LYNX, see below)
WARNING: This will work for all provided files in the wikipedia lists download. However, the format of these pages is not standard and might not work for new systems, the program might crash.
I made "special" import routines for NES, AMIGA and Lynx games lists wich have a different layout that the main routine could not process.
So when updating these lists, you will have to rename the htm files EXACTLY like they are in the downloaded archive. You will also see lots of crap in the wiki's list for these platforms: years, publishers names etc...
Use the quick links menu to browse to various sites and find info about the selected game (see below).
Address bar: Double click to browse to the address.
Save button: Saves your lists and paths to the DATA.txt file. You can manually edit this file, make sure you don't change the tags names, only one tag per line and keep the correct sequence:
[Manufacturer]
[Platform]
[RomPath]
[Emu]
[EmuPath]
[Emu]
[EmuPath]
..... as much [emu] [emuPath] as you need
[Fav]
[Fav]
......as much [Fav] as you need
[Platform] *new paltform
.....
[Manufacturer]*new manufacturer
....
Quick Links:
When a game is selected in the wiki's list, you can launch searches on 4 different web sites besides Wikipedia to get further info on that game.
When you click one on the site in the menu, the program will browse to the web site and make a search with the game's title.
GameFaqs:
Good for walkthrough and codes
GameRankings: Good for reviews
Replacement Docs: To get FULL instruction manuals in PDF. If you have Adobe Acrobat, it will open directly in the browser's window
**WARNING: Some manuals are very large and can take quite a while before downloading
Moby Games : Good for reviews of old games and cover art, lots of info.
For comments, bug reports and suggestions: rombrary@gmail.com
