Rom2Xlobby "create your roms databases" www

by **Stimpson J. Cat** on Mon Jun 26, 2006 7:19 pm

Is there any way to keep it from downloading covers? Or to make it assign images you already have?

I have a subdirectory of each of my emulators called "snap", which has covers for all my games in it. In each case, the images just have the same name as the rom, but with an image extension. It would be nice to be able to get it to generate the database using the images I already have.

Stimpy

by **dgemily** on Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:48 pm

not with rom2xlobby, but you can edit the databases or look at the xlobby scan with meta-masks.

by **Marbles_00** on Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:57 pm

Hey dgemily,

I seem to be having a problem using rom2xlobby for anything other than MAME roms. I've set it up for MAME, Sega Genesis, N64, and SNES roms. It only finds the ones for MAME. No Error, just reports back 0 roms for all the other emulators. The Genesis and SNES are mainly in .zip format (a couple of the SNES types are .smc (I think)). The N64 are either in .v64 or .z64 format with one with a .rom extension.

Any help on what I'm doing wrong would be appreciated as it is a royal pain to enter all these manually.

Thanks in advance.

by **dgemily** on Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:44 pm

I just tried on N64, snes and mame roms and it's works well for me....
for mame and zinc, rom2xlobby use the roms name to indentify your roms (so don't rename these roms or try to correct their names) but for you marbles_00, this works...
for others platforms : N64, SNES,NES ..... rom2xlobby use ucon64 to identify, so may be you have a problem with it....

can you try this:

create 2 batchs in the rom2xlobby directory, with:

ucon64 "D:\Emulateurs\romsnes" >SNESresult.txt

and

ucon64 "D:\Emulateurs\romN64" >N64result.txt

change the roms path, save these .bat and execute those.
then it will create 2 .txt files : N64result.txt and SNESresult.txt

can you send me or post those files ?

later

by **Marbles_00** on Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:33 am

Ahhh, I think I see the problem, when I tried to run the .bat files, I get the following error:

Code: Select all: C:\Windows\Himem.sys"C:\ProgramBad command or file name Bad command or file name

.

In each text file created, the following is indicated:

Code: Select all: Cannot execute C:\EMULATORS\ROM2XLOBBY\UCON64.EXE

I found out that the ucon64 calls up autoexec.nt and config.nt (variants to autoexec.bat and config.sys in the old DOS days). In config.nt, I noticed the following line:

Code: Select all: device=%SystemRoot%\system32\himem.sys

I also did a search for himem.sys and it does reside in the System32 directory. Since the error was indicating that it could not find himem.sys in the c:\windows, what I tried was to place the himem.sys file in the windows root (c:\windows) and changed the config.nt file to:

Code: Select all: Device=c:\windows\himem.sys

But that didn't work. :cry:

Hmmm, a little lost on what to try now. Hope you or someone can help.

by **dgemily** on Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:13 am

sorry, but for the moment, I have no idea how to fix your problem, maybe we have to check with ucon64 support.....

by **Marbles_00** on Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:57 pm

Well, I checked the version of ucon64 that came with rom2xlobby by typing in:

Code: Select all: ucon64 -version

and it reported this back:

Code: Select all: version: 2.0.0 (Jan 7 2005) platform: MSDOS endianess: little debug: no parallel port backup unit support: yes USB port backup unit support: no ANSI colors enabled: yes gzip and zip support: yes configuration file (present): C:\DOCUME~1\user\ucon64.cfg discmage DLL: C:\DOCUME~1\user\discmage.dxe discmage enabled: no discmage version: not available configuration directory: C:\DOCUME~1\user DAT file directory: C:\DOCUME~1\user entries in DATabase: 0 DATbase enabled: yes

So I ended up downloading a Windows version of ucon64 and did a version check and this is what came up:

Code: Select all: version: 2.0.0 (Jan 7 2005) platform: Win32 (MinGW) endianess: little debug: no parallel port backup unit support: yes USB port backup unit support: no ANSI colors enabled: yes gzip and zip support: yes configuration file (present): C:\Documents and Settings\user\.ucon64rc discmage DLL: C:\Documents and Settings\user\discmage.dll discmage enabled: no discmage version: not available configuration directory: C:\Documents and Settings\user DAT file directory: C:\Documents and Settings\user entries in DATabase: 0 DATbase enabled: yes

I'm going to try out the Windows version as I'm hoping that it will use windows memory resources/management as opposed to trying to load DOS memory management.

The only other problem is that there are three different window versions of ucon64 that can be downloaded from their website. I only downloaded the first one, but it could be that one of the other ones could be more suited. So there is still some trial and error ahead.

I'll let you know how it works.

by **dgemily** on Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:20 pm

Marbles_00 wrote:I'll let you know how it works.

hope it will.... and yep, let me know :wink:

by **dgemily** on Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:07 pm

look at this post: http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=23398#23398

maybe it can help you...

by **Marbles_00** on Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:27 pm

I tried the Win32 version of ucon64 on a different computer (here at work....shhh!!! don't tell anyone). The first time through it complained that it could not find the ucon64.out file. I ended up generating that file with the DOS version of ucon64 (the one that came with rom2xlobby), I then tried the Win32 version again and it worked on that computer.

So now I figure that .out file is "GOLDEN", so I'm taking it home to try on my computer tonight....fingers crossed.

Oh I did skim over that a while back but figured it was only dealing with XP 64bit version (which wouldn't pertain to us lonely Win2k dudes

...so I thought).

More updates to come.

by **badubo** on Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:33 pm

ucon64.out is nothing more that a temporary file generated by rom2xlobby (in fact this is the dump of the output console of ucon64

I ended up generating that file with the DOS version of ucon64 (the one that came with rom2xlobby), I then tried the Win32 version again and it worked on that computer.

what you tested is only to reuse a previous result (from the dos version). So, it will always give to you the same database.
So now the question, is why the output of the console is not dumped....

by **badubo** on Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:01 pm

Can you try this exe with the win32 version?

http://france.xlobby.com/plugins/Rom2Xlobby_Win32.zip

by **dgemily** on Sat Aug 19, 2006 7:26 pm

badubo, it's ok for me using win32 version of ucon ....
I tried on all platforms with a lot of roms and I get the same result than rom2xlobby with the dos version...

here is rom2xlobby pack using the win32 version of ucon64: rom2xlobby_fulluconwin32.zip

later

by **Marbles_00** on Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:21 am

badubo,

you were right about the .out file. Thanks for working on helping about this. N64 and SNES roms work now, but so far Sega Genisis...well...no go.

Just wondering, is the rom2xlobby.exe file looking for a specific version of ucon64? I tried to copy over three different Win versions, but none of them seemed to do anything but give me more headaches.

Thanks in advance.

by **dgemily** on Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:45 am

Marbles_00 wrote:Just wondering, is the rom2xlobby.exe file looking for a specific version of ucon64? I tried to copy over three different Win versions, but none of them seemed to do anything but give me more headaches.

did you try, with this pack : rom2xlobby_fulluconwin32.zip ?
I tried and it's work for sega genesis as well....