Romcenter 4.2.0 beta 3 (now 64b !)

[RomCenter]

Rc64 4.2.0.beta 3.7z

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This is a 64b beta version. All plugins are currently not functional because still in 32b.

Gui version:

- Upgrade dialogs and zip packages
- Upgrade 7z dll

Command line:

- Fix update command line, return exit code
- Fix several null references errors in cmd line and rc
- Handle 'path too long' error
- Handle db format error
- Fix upper db extensions not recognized

[smoklokok]

If there are non functional why you post them?

[Wanderer]

If there are non functional why you post them?

The plan is to have both a 32-bit and a 64-bit version. So far, the plugins have not been converted, they will be though.

[RomCenter]

They should not be included. If they are, it's a mistake. I will check that.

Plugins code are public, if someone want to build them in 64b.
https://github.com/ebolefeysot/RomcenterPlugins

[smoklokok]

They should not be included. If they are, it's a mistake. I will check that.

Plugins code are public, if someone want to build them in 64b.
https://github.com/ebolefeysot/RomcenterPlugins

Thanks I will take a pick at it.

[jessicajones]

I'm now testing romcenter 4.2.0 beta 3 but I found a very big bug I think.

Please look at screenshot! All games having one or more files that have no dump available are reported as "incomplete" (orange) while the files don't exist, so the game runs fine in mame.
They should be "complete" (green)

This bug is also in the previous version (in all versions I used).
Can you please fix it because in this way many many games are wrongly reported as "incomplete" (orange).
There should be a test in the code for files having no dump (this is indicated in the XML )

example:

<rom name="pal16r6.16d" size="260" status="nodump" region="plds" offset="200" />
<rom name="pal20l8.8h" size="324" status="nodump" region="plds" offset="400" />


https://ibb.co/7y6h82H

This tool is fantastic!!!

[MELERIX]

Romcenter 4.2.0 beta 3 fails to import DB from Arcade64 0.249: https://arcade.mameworld.info/arcade249.7z



if you click "yes" this happens...

[geesehoward79]

Romcenter 4.2.0 beta 3 fails to import DB from Arcade64 0.249: https://arcade.mameworld.info/arcade249.7z



if you click "yes" this happens...

Its a emu bug, not romcenter related.

[SFX Group]

Think ive seen this, when creating a dump of ROMS required had to check that "no dump available", so i suppose should be green if the game works.

[djdoubt03]

Is romcenter dead?

[SFX Group]

Its slow on development for sure, however we have no idea as to why... at least 2 factors are involved.

- Covid changing the planet and how people work
- MAME was kinda bulldozed over abit, very hard to find anything new for MAME.

I really liked the software, however for a few years ive had issues when dealing with such as a large amount of data, from past posts it appears many issues were from the 32bit code, re-writing all that to 64bit likely isnt a nice challenge and really doesn't offer anything new, only different code that does the same thing on a 64bit system.

I come here ever 3 months in the hopes to see new version, i am stuck with unable to check the games i have and have duplicates i need to merge to make sure i dont loose data with a copy / paste.

[MELERIX]

maybe he should make Romcenter open source and put it in GitHub.

[SFX Group]

Given theres been no updates i had to relook at other managers, we moved to Rom Vault, its 64bit, alot of documenation, works very different than RC but does work. Given the newer hardware i now have and real fast SSDs ive managed to organise all my ROMS in under a day.

It appears the internet listed Rom Center as abandoned, which spurred the move for me to look at other managers. Its a shame given we started to use this over 20 years ago...