a goot tool question

[ulaoulao]

I have to ask first, can I ask about goodgba? I have a question about that program not the roms.

[Genome]

^ yes you can good (programs) is talked about often on here (at least mentioned)

[hagbard]

I have to ask first, can I ask about goodgba? I have a question about that program not the roms.
As Genome said, yes, you can

[ulaoulao]

well if at any point its not to be talk about I understand.

goodgba 2.01 is missing roms. That is all I will say. I cant get tosec working, and rom doctor seems to hate me. I need a full rom renamer for my gba that knows more roms then goodgba 2.01, is there one? If tosec is better I wll register on their site to download it.

[alcoatjez]

GoodGBA has not been updated for a very long time. TOSEC has no GBA. You can use the No-Intro dat (http://gbadat.altervista.org). You will need ClrMame (http://www.clrmame.com) or RomCenter (http://www.romcenter.com) to use it. ClrMame is better IMHO, but RomCenter is easier to use.
Good luck :)

[ulaoulao]

I have ClrMame for mame, and I lik it. So I just needs the No-Intro dats. Ill give it a go.

[alcoatjez]

Normally it is updated within a couple of days after new releases.

[Genome]

okay so im retarded what does the good and all the others alco actually do.
i know it makes a list of all the games. but other than that does it really do anything amazing?

[alcoatjez]

Goodtools and the datfiles check and rename the ROMs you have. In this way you can see which ROMs you have and which ones you're missing. Some can also fix your ROMs. I'm a collector (about 400GB of ROMs), so this is very important to me. If you take f.e. the No-Intro dats, they only contain perfect dumps of commercial games. In this way they will be preserved when the original consoles are gone.

[ulaoulao]

I'm just the same as, alcoatjez. I too are a collector. I could not live without ClrMame are the good tools.

alcoatjez? will the No-Intro dat's work with goodmerge? rather, will romcenter or ClrMame(this is a no I 100% on) make a have file so I can use it with goodmerge. At least I think thats all I need. Goodmerge has up to date xmdb files.

[alcoatjez]

You can make a have.txt file with all your ClrMame dats. But in the No-Intro sets there are not so many similar files. For example in GoodSnes you would have Final Fantasy VI (J) and perhaps about 6 versions which differ only a few bytes. In the No-Intro dat you would only have Final Fantasy VI (J). Therefore GoodMerging your No-Intro sets does not have the big advantages as with the GoodSets.

[ulaoulao]

I didnt think ClrMame would do this. I have not play'd with it yet. But also would not have a clue how. I'm guessing its in the scanner options. If you have a write up some where please let me know.

[alcoatjez]

Scan your set. Afterwards, right-click on the scanner window and choose 'Miss/have list'.

[ulaoulao]

You-Da-Man.

[Genome]

Goodtools and the datfiles check and rename the ROMs you have. In this way you can see which ROMs you have and which ones you're missing. Some can also fix your ROMs. I'm a collector (about 400GB of ROMs), so this is very important to me. If you take f.e. the No-Intro dats, they only contain perfect dumps of commercial games. In this way they will be preserved when the original consoles are gone.

:confused: :confused: :confused: wow i considered myself a collector but im only at 25 gb or so. we should discuss this in more closed quarters though. assuming you want to i'll pm you.

[alcoatjez]

assuming you want to i'll pm you.

No problem at all ;)

[ulaoulao]

alcoatjez, is that zipped or Goodmerged?

[alcoatjez]

assuming you want to i'll pm you.

Assuming you want to empty your PM box (it's full :D)


alcoatjez, is that zipped or Goodmerged?

All my ROMs are zipped. I don't use GoodMerge, since I don't really collect Goodsets. I have almost all of them, but I rather use No-Intro sets.

[ulaoulao]

the reason I asked is that I had 600 gig, before 7z ing all of them. Now I just use qplay to play them and I get to keep them all 7z'd up. So its only 70 gig or so. Godda love that compression.

[alcoatjez]

Yes, but since the No-Intro sets do not contain so much similar files (hacked, fixed, translated) they don't GoodMerge so good. No-Intro only contains commercially released ROMs.

[ulaoulao]

I see your point ;)

thx.