emuControlCenter - first screens

[ecc]

Hi,
im writing a tool called ecc emuContolCenter. Its a tool to manage your roms and show you things like screenshots, rom-informations and dat-informations. It can parse headers of all rom-types, if a parser is written. I will show infos at http://www.camya.com within the next few days.

The tool is 80% done... and running without big errors.

Overview-Screen

Details


At this moment, i create a new datformat for ecc:
Here you can read the thread. Comment are welcomed!

For ecc, i will add a new format for dat-transfer. I call this format ecc_dat.
Comments are recommed!

Here you can see a first RFC-Release of the DAT-Fomat:

# ecc dat-file for mediadetection
# version 0.0.1
# date 2006/05/11

[ECC_DAT_INFO]
name			= Gameboy Advanced
ecc_ident		= ECC_DAT_GBA
release_version	= 0.0.1
release_date	= 2006/05/11
release_state	= alpha
comment			= Visit camya for the newest dat-file
author			= ecc
website			= http://www.camya.de/
email			= e@mail.de

[MEDIA]

# demodata
# name;extension;crc32;running;buggy;county;languages;trainer;introhack;hardware;usermod;free;doublettes
# varchar;varchar;crc32;int;bool;int[|n];int[|n];bool;bool;int[|n];bool;bool;crc32[|n]
#
# demodata description
# name;			varchar		real title of the media
# extension;	varchar		extension e.g. gba of the media
# crc32;		crc32		media crc32 checksum
# running;		bool		0=running | 1=not running
# buggy;		bool		0=ok | 1=has bugs
# county;		int[|]		Pipe-Seperated Coutries (Source [MEDIA_COUNTRY])
# languages;	int[|]		Pipe-Seperated supported languages of the media (Source [MEDIA_LANGUAGES])
# trainer;		bool		0=no trainer | 1-n=includes a trainer
# introhack;	bool		0=no intro | 1=intro hack added to the media
# hardware;		int[|]		Pipe-Seperated Special hardware used in this media (Source [MEDIA_HARDWARE])
# usermod;		bool		0=no | 1=yes User-Modification e.g. user-translations
# free;			bool		0=no freeware | 1=freeware eg publicdomain (PD)
# category		int			type of game  (Source [MEDIA_CATEGORY])
# doublettes	crc32[|]	Pipe-Seperated crc32-checksums of equal games

Super Mario Advance 2 - Super Mario World;gba;5206880A;1;0;1;2;0;0;0;0;0;1;3D2B51F0
Super Mario Advance 2 - Super Mario World;gba;3D2B51F0;1;0;3;2;0;0;0;0;0;1;5206880A
Golden Sun;gba;1053DCE4;1;0;3;1;0;0;0;0;3;E1FB68E8
Golden Sun;gba;E1FB68E8;1;0;1;2;0;0;0;0;3;1053DCE4
Golden Sun 2 - Die Vergessene Epoche;gba;D981D889;1;0;3;1;0;0;0;0;0;5;671EE52A|1717CDED
Golden Sun 2;gba;671EE52A;1;0;1;2;0;0;0;0;0;5;D981D889|1717CDED
Golden Sun 2;gba;1717CDED;1;0;2;4;0;1;0;0;0;5;D981D889|671EE52A

The date behind the values in the dat-files are stored in a ini file in the emuControlCenter and maybe look like that.

# general data

[MEDIA_COUNTRY]
0	= No country version
1	= USA
2	= Japan
3	= Europa

[MEDIA_LANGUAGES]
0	= Keine Sprache
1	= Deutsch
2	= Englisch
4	= Japanisch
5	= Schwedisch
6	= Dänisch
7	= Französisch
8	= Spanisch
9	= Koreanisch
10	= Chinesisch
11	= Italienisch

[MEDIA_CATEGORY]
0	= keine Kategorie zugewiesen
1	= Jump and Run
2	= Action adventure
3	= Sport

# special data e.g. for gameboy advanced in a special ini

[MEDIA_HARDWARE]
0	= keine spezielle Hardware
1	= Solarsensor
2	= Tilt-Sensor

Any comments to this format?


regards,
andreas

[Lefteris_D]

This seems like a very good project and the DAT file format seems to be heading the right way.

What I really want to know is if it's going to cover just Nintendo games and what systems(NES? SNES? N64?).

[ecc]

Hi Lefteris_D,

ecc could cover all single-file roms at this moment.
Ive tested it with the following roms:

Super Nintendo - Inclusive HI/LO_Rom check and additional Header-Detection
Gameboy Advanced
Gameboy Color
Gameboy
N-64
Neo-Geo-Pocket
mp3 id3

but all single-file roms are ok. Maybe sometimes, i will add multipart-roms...

Some roms are harder (snes, because of some headers), some easier to parse. I can add parser very easy. The parser can parse only the checksums, but also all Header-Informations like country-code, developer, internal-checksums aso.

Regards,
Andreas

[ecc]

Hi,

i´ve updated my homepage: More informations about emuControlCenter take a look at:

http://www.camya.com/ecc/

Regards,
Andreas

[montpics]

Any english translation for that page? (As I can't understand that kind of language.)

[ecc]

Hi,
at this moment, i have not done any translation, because of my very strange english :-) The page contains informations about the features of ecc.

Regards,
Andreas

[ecc]

ecc now Supports:

Nintendo:
Gameboy
Gameboy Color
Gameboy Advanced
N64
Super Nintendo
SNK
NeoGeoPocket

I´v updated the screenshot.



more infos http://www.camya.com/ecc/

Regards,
ecc

[cloud4004]

Nice... Always great to see new emulation programs in the works.

[ecc]

New Screenshot

www.camya.com/ecc/

[ecc]

I´ve updated the screens of ecc. Take a look!

Regards,
ecc