MSX ROM Librarian released

Enlighted (6443)

17-03-2020, 01:27

Thanks for this utiliy. You did a job beyond my expectations.

MSX ROM Librarian allows us to rename the Rom files with short name to use on MSX or long name to classify them. It can rename all your files at one time. Long names also indicate whether the dump was performed incorrectly and the version number as possible. Please send your comments if any information is missing in database.

Note: Be careful because bad dumps and overdumped Roms will not have a short name.

By АIеks

Paladin (983)

17-03-2020, 15:43

SHA victory on the mind. All ROMs have long been classic in emulators. There is very little left

By OeiOeiVogeltje

Paragon (1439)

19-03-2020, 02:56

isnt this similar to this?

By Pencioner

Scribe (1612)

19-03-2020, 09:34

@OeiOeiVogeltje Yes, though i think it is more easy to use and have more featuresand a GUI. At the time Vampier posted the script ROM librarian was already in mature stage of development but release was delayed because of personal (family) things and lack of time. Actually, the option of "copying files to folder instead of renaming" makes it work exactly like Vampier's script

BTW, it is also written in Python and uses the YAML database (thanks @gdx!). Executables were created with pyinstaller. I will publish sources when i have time to split common logic of GUI and console version into module (now it a copy-paste from one file to another with some changes, which is not good, i would feel shame if i post this code). If anybody wants to have a look at source before that happens just drop me a message and i will send it by email :)

By tfh

Prophet (3430)

19-03-2020, 10:30

Maybe it's an idea to have a look to combine these efforts and especially the databases? The GUI is probably easier to use for a lot of people compared to the scripts Vampier made, but his database seems to be way more complete. It would be nice to have the best of both worlds

Vampier's Database has also been used for the BetterMSX collection, which is a big improvement over the old GoodMSX collection.

By gdx

Enlighted (6443)

19-03-2020, 11:31

Vampier's list is oriented to MSX emulators (especially OpenMSX). Mine is more adapted for real MSX users. It can rename files with short names.

I recently work a little with Vampier to improve the number of listed Roms and indicate the bad dumps and better differentiate Roms versions. Actually Rom Librarian does it better.

The two lists have greatly benefited from this collaboration.

About long name, they are named differenly with Rom Librarian because I prefere put original full title (with alphabetic characters) following by English title or translation if known. Vampier started his list long before me and at that time, a lot of Korean and Japanese titles were not yet known well. He corrects that quickly however.

I do not put the year or the ROM arrival number nor publisher (except to differentiate from another version). I think is not necessary for the usage on MSX. I put these details in a text file in the archive. In addition I only indicate the Rom mapper type when it was modified, and the version and main specifics as much as possible.

Vampier's list indicate the Rom mapper type when it is not auto-detected by OpenMSX.

I indicate the language in game too with (A), (D), (F), (G), (I), (J), (K), (P), (S), ... for Arabic, Duch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, ...

By tfh

Prophet (3430)

19-03-2020, 11:31

gdx wrote:

Vampier's list is oriented to MSX emulators (especially OpenMSX). Mine is more adapted for real MSX users. It can rename files with short names.

I recently work a little with Vampier to improve the number of listed Roms and indicate the bad dumps and better differentiate Roms versions. Actually Rom Librarian does it better.

The two lists have greatly benefited from this collaboration.

About long name, they are named differenly with Rom Librarian because I prefere put original full title (with alphabetic characters) following by English title or translation if known. Vampier started his list long before me and at that time, a lot of Korean and Japanese titles were not yet known well. He corrects that quickly however.

I do not put the year or the ROM arrival number nor publisher (except to differentiate from another version). I think is not necessary for the usage on MSX. I put these details in a text file in the archive. In addition I only indicate the Rom mapper type when it was modified, and the version and main specifics as much as possible.

Vampier's list indicate the Rom mapper type when it is not auto-detected by OpenMSX.

I indicate the language in game too.

All this information could be in one database and idealy you could configure how the names are outputted. But thats just my 2 cents

By Pencioner

Scribe (1612)

19-03-2020, 12:14

tfh wrote:

All this information could be in one database and idealy you could configure how the names are outputted. But thats just my 2 cents

I actually thought about adding more info to ROM Librarian database later (publisher and year, maybe mapper type as well) and add a db viewer to GUI - i guess that would be nice addition. But not sure when i have time for it. I have started working on new Carnivore 2 manager with better UI (filemanager-like) and it will keep me busy for a while

By tfh

Prophet (3430)

19-03-2020, 12:29

Pencioner wrote:

tfh wrote:

All this information could be in one database and idealy you could configure how the names are outputted. But thats just my 2 cents

I actually thought about adding more info to ROM Librarian database later (publisher and year, maybe mapper type as well) and add a db viewer to GUI - i guess that would be nice addition. But not sure when i have time for it. I have started working on new Carnivore 2 manager with better UI (filemanager-like) and it will keep me busy for a while

Hmmm, A combination of your programm and the databases of the OpenMSX team, GDX & GenerationMSX. That would be ultimate of course. One can always dream
But... Nice initiative and easy to work with... Well done

By tfh

Prophet (3430)

20-03-2020, 08:48

@GDX,
Would it be possible for you to send me an e-mail? it's in my profile.

By gdx

Enlighted (6443)

20-03-2020, 09:21

Sent but:

Quote:

DNS Error: 2828350 DNS type 'mx' lookup of spamfile-hunter.com responded with code NXDOMAIN Domain name not found: spamfile-hunter.com

By tfh

Prophet (3430)

20-03-2020, 09:44

gdx wrote:

Sent but:

Quote:

DNS Error: 2828350 DNS type 'mx' lookup of spamfile-hunter.com responded with code NXDOMAIN Domain name not found: spamfile-hunter.com

You should remove the NO & SPAM from the e-mail address on my profile ;-)

By Pencioner

Scribe (1612)

23-11-2020, 16:39

Database was updated (thanks @gdx!), download newer version here

By tfh

Prophet (3430)

09-09-2021, 22:41

Is there a place where we can find a new version with updated database?

By gdx

Enlighted (6443)

10-09-2021, 02:15

A new version should be released soon.

By tfh

Prophet (3430)

10-09-2021, 07:48

gdx wrote:

A new version should be released soon.

Nice, thanks!

By Pencioner

Scribe (1612)

10-09-2021, 10:46

i will release new version when i'm back from business trip, please wait for a week (i don't have anything for it on my company laptop, sorry), new DB is ready, thanks to @gdx

By tfh

Prophet (3430)

10-09-2021, 12:38

Take your time! There is no hurry

By Pencioner

Scribe (1612)

19-09-2021, 16:05

New release 1.0.4 - updated with latest database

By tfh

Prophet (3430)

19-09-2021, 16:32

Pencioner wrote:

New release 1.0.4 - updated with latest database

Thanks :) I've ended up with 3937 files. How many entries are there in the database?

By Pencioner

Scribe (1612)

19-09-2021, 19:58

4681 but there is some sega stuff and some bad dumps in it (not complete sega db of course, my guess is that ones which work with MMM are also included, but you should ask @gdx to clarify, i do not know exactly)

By gdx

Enlighted (6443)

20-09-2021, 02:28

There are about 219 bad dumps, 16 demo & 207 roms for SG-1000 indexed.

Thanks to Pencioner for this nice tool.

It would be nice if OpenMSX indicated the bad dumps. I can give the list.

By Pencioner

Scribe (1612)

10-01-2022, 12:14

New release 1.0.5 - updated with latest database

By Sylvester

Hero (593)

10-01-2022, 13:46

nice, what about:

Quote:

For Linux and MacOS users - the sources will be prepared and released on BitBucket soon.

??

By Stakker

Expert (65)

28-02-2022, 19:37

Would be awesome to have a Mac port :-)

By gdx

Enlighted (6443)

01-03-2022, 12:35

tfh wrote:

Maybe it's an idea to have a look to combine these efforts and especially the databases

It's already done. We have several time helped each other improve our list but since Vampier's family has hugely suffered because of covid-19, I no longer have contact.

By tfh

Prophet (3430)

26-04-2023, 17:02

Any update on this?

By Pencioner

Scribe (1612)

26-04-2023, 19:06

@tfh I'm working on update of UI. DB format has been changed (now it includes more info so there are plans for a browsing of the info feature as well, but in this update the folders to sort roms were also introduced), this requires some changes in code, not so simple as previous updates which has only data updated. Please wait a little bit The database itself is available on gdx's github though

By gdx

Enlighted (6443)

10-06-2023, 11:44

After serveral months of hard work, the database is ready for the requested updates.

https://github.com/gdx-msx/MSX-Roms-List

An update of the application without adding new feature would be a good thing at first because many Roms have been added since.

By gdx

Enlighted (6443)

17-07-2023, 09:46

Bad news, there will be no more update of Rom Librarian. Pencioner is giving up on development.

Pencioner advises me to appeal for someone to continue the development (Python) but I don't think anyone devote to continuing it. Therefore, unless by chance someone devotes himself, I am no longer continuing the list because it is no longer compatible with Rom Librarian and no one seems to be of interest for another use.
I added too many entries to back to the previous format, so the project is probably dead.

By tfh

Prophet (3430)

17-07-2023, 11:44

Sad to hear!

By Pencioner

Scribe (1612)

17-07-2023, 12:27

@gdx i will try to find time for one more releaze, so your recent work wouldn't feel like a waste of time, sorry for that

but the question - is anyone up to pick it up? i will support you until you get familiar with the code

By Uninteresting

Champion (366)

17-07-2023, 16:33

Do you have a link to the source code somewhere? I'd like to see what the source code looks like first (and which GUI library you've used).

I'm somewhat doubtful of my ability to take such a big role in a community project (having never contributed to those), or how much energy I will have for it after my vacation ends.

By Pencioner

Scribe (1612)

18-07-2023, 20:16

@Uninteresting i will clean up and prepare code and publish, so you can have a look. GUI library used is appJar

By Uninteresting

Champion (366)

18-07-2023, 20:21

Okay, never heard of that. I've used traitsUI (unfortunately) and PyQt only, but appJar doesn't look too bad.

By gdx

Enlighted (6443)

26-07-2023, 10:41

Can I continue the list with confidence?

By Pencioner

Scribe (1612)

26-07-2023, 20:07

Yes, if you don't change the db structure again. I will have python changes ready this weekend

By Pencioner

Scribe (1612)

31-07-2023, 23:51

Version 1.1.0

sorry for delay btw

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