Daeval Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 (edited) I'm wondering what other people use to organize their GBA roms. I've checked out goodGBA and GBA-Renamer and both seem like good programs, but they both have some flaws. GoodGBA's (and really all the good tools) only real flaw is its comprehensive nature. I'd like to be able to eliminate certain tags from the lists when it determines what I'm missing. For example, I don't really care to have all the hacked versions of each game. I'd like it to not count those for purposes of completeness, similar to the way it handles baddumps. (Edit: I think I found a way to do this.. I'll report back if it works..) Update: For the few of you who both a)cared and b)didn't know, you CAN do this in GoodGBA. You have to set "n" after the type you'd like to ignore in the.cfg file, as it is after overdumps and baddumps in the list. This makes goodgba near ideal in my opinion, but every site I've found seems to use GBA-R so I'm still curious what others use and why. GBA-Renamer doesn't have this problem, as it only supports official releases. However, the other side of the coin is that it doesn't support Public Domain games or a lot of the other oddities. In addition, GBA-R doesn't tell the difference between a "good" version of a rom and a hacked version. I'll get dupes in GBA-R that show up as [!] and [h2] in GoodGBA. I've also seen compilations that look like they're built with GBA-R that have patches and box-shots built into the.zip files, which is something the good tools don't do. I'm not sure it's GBA-R doing this either, however, as I can't find this functionality. So, what do you use? And what, if anything, do you do about the gripes above? Edited August 20, 2004 by Daeval Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sybarite Paladin AxL Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 umm question, what are all this "Good" things like I've seen GoodNes or something like that, but I don't get what they are! enlighten me plz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 (edited) umm question, what are all this "Good" things like I've seen GoodNes or something like that, but I don't get what they are! enlighten me plzGoodXXX databases (plus, it's a rom checking tool too) contain the info of all the dumped games of that particular system. Basically, you can make sure that your romsets are the properly-dumped ones. Goodsets are for console systems and handhelds basically. Edited October 18, 2004 by Agozer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sybarite Paladin AxL Posted October 25, 2004 Share Posted October 25, 2004 so it's a program right?linky? i'm pretty sure it isn't against board rules... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted October 25, 2004 Share Posted October 25, 2004 You can get all the rom auditing tools you might need from http://www.zophar.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sybarite Paladin AxL Posted October 25, 2004 Share Posted October 25, 2004 gee thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evlcookie Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 GBA-R goes by "scene releases and numbers them".. which is why there are numbers infront of the rom name and why it only *really* supports "official" releases by groups. Ren just throws every god damn known pos for gba into 1 "thing" I use clrmamepro dat done by pocketheaven for my renaming, since i just stick with scene releases. and wow.. old.. haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 and wow.. old.. hahaTruth to the max. Guess what that means? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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