Released: RCC (ROM Collection Checker) By SukkoPera

Tendold · 9 Ottobre 2006

Il nostro amato moderatore SukkoPera, ha rilasciato un utilissimo tool (ispirato a RomCenter e ClrMamePro) scritto in C, e compatibile con qualsiasi sitema operativo.
Grazie a questo programma, avremo la possibilità di gestire, rinominare e verificare l' autentica genuinità delle roms di diversi sistemi, tra i quali NDS e GBA.
N.B. I files .DAT non sono inclusi nell' archivio, quindi per il corretto funzionamento del programma dovrete inserirlo voi stessi.
Di seguito troverete l' estratto del readme, mentre a fondo news troverete il link per il download.

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RCC - ROM Collection Checker
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Those who collect ROMs for older computer systems out there know how much of a
pain it is: there are many dumps of every ROM, most of which are bad dumps or
hacked versions. Also, you often get a lot of duplicate files, which makes
things even worse.
Fortunately, Microsoft Windows users can use a couple tools to manage their
collection, such as RomCenter, ClrMamePro or the famous GoodTools. But nothing
similar exists for UN*X-like systems. All such programs (except the latter) use
a common database, made of so-called "DAT files", which basically are a list of
known ROM dumps, each with the correct name (well, actually naming is a big
issue) and some means of identifying the actual ROM, such as its CRC32, MD5 or
SHA1 digests.

RCC is a tool I wrote taking inspiration from the above-mentioned programs
(which I actually never saw). It is capable of reading DAT files in two
commonly available formats and to scan directories searching for ROMs. It can
also copy or move the found ROMs to another directory, while renaming them,
making life easier to collectors.

RCC is programmed in C, using the great glib library. Development is done under
GNU/Linux, but the program should run with no problems on other operating
systems, such as Microsoft Windows and Apple MacOS X. The program is released
under the GPL, so it is free software (as in "free speech", not as in "free
beer"). This gives every user many benefits, such as full access to the source
code and the rights to modify it to any degree. See the "Contributing" section
below and the COPYING file for further details.

People are welcome to use and test the program. Should you encounter any
bugs/crashes, you can send an e-mail to sukkopera@gmail.com.

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Compatibility
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When using RCC, everything depends on how good is the DAT file it is being fed.
There are definitely too many DATs-making groups out there, so I don't know
which ones to recommend. Use those you find most comfortable with.

RCC can read DAT files in the following formats:
- RomCenter format
- ClrMamePro format

I actually wrote RCC for my own needs, so I can't say it is fully compatible
with these formats. For instance, at the moment it can only read ClrMamePro
DATs which have a single ROM per entry, which means that MAME DATs are not
supported at the moment. Also, it sometimes has problems reading DAT files with
Windows line-terminators, so please run the DATs through the popular dos2unix
utility.

Testing has been done with the PocketHeaven GBA releases list
(http://releases.pocketheaven.com), the no-intro MSX DAT
(http://www.gbadat.altervista.org).

Feel free to mail me if you have any other problems with any DAT file.

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Usage
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Basic usage goes like this:

rcc -d -i

This will scan for all known ROMs according to . If
you want to move such ROMs to another directory, try:

rcc -d -m

You can also use "-c" instead of "-m" if you prefer copying the ROMs. If you
add the "-z" option, the ROMs will be zipped, each in its own file. The last
option you might find useful is "-u": with it, you will also get a list of
files which don't correspond to any known ROM.

Some notes:
- You can specify more than one DAT at the same time, simply using the "-d"
option several times.
- The program always recurses in all subdirectories of root_directory.
- The program also scans all ZIP archives found in root_directory and its
subdirectories.
- ROMs found in ZIP archives will always be copied, never moved.
- At the moment, ROM mathing is only done using their CRC32 (no MD5 yet).
- The program will NEVER overwrite any existing file in destination_directory.
- There is no explicit way of finding duplicate ROMs. But because the program
never overwrites a file when doing its output, you can just copy/move all ROMs
to another directory, and only one copy of them will be copied/moved.
- Try "rcc --help" to get a full list of options.

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Prerequisites
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RCC uses the great glib for many things and the famouse zlib for access to ZIP
archives. Therefore you will need:
- glib >= 2.0 (http://www.gtk.org)
- zlib (http://www.zlib.net)

This is no big pain, as these libraries are very popular on UN*X systems, and
they are usually shipped with major distributions. Remember that to compile
things, you also need the "-dev" packages.

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Installation
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See INSTALL.

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Contributing
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RCC is free software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL),
which basically means that you can get the sources and modify them as much as
you like, as long as you release all your modifications under the same license.
Although, even though the license does not require it, I would be glad if you
mailed me any modifications you do, so that we can keep a single version of the
program around, which means less confusion for the users .

Indeed, if you have a lot of ideas about the program, you are welcome to join
the development team. Feel free to mail me for any info.

We also need packages for more GNU/Linux distributions: SuSE, RedHat/Fedora,
Mandrake, etc..., and testing on other UNIX flavours, such as the various BSD
systems, Solaris, etc...
Clicca per allargare...

Enjoy...

Download: RCC (ROM Collection Checker) By SukkoPera

SukkoPera · 14 Ottobre 2006

È cambiato l'URL per il download: http://www.sukkology.net/software/rcc-0.3.tar.gz

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