a BIG idea for a future release

[bedfford]

The basic of this idea is a convert RomCenter into a more complete suite of roms manager, adding some tools for manage art files.

Every time I update my roms ( creating renamig & deleting ), I remenber the necessity of have a tool to reflect this changes to other files: art files and more important: files inside MAME's CFG, NVRAM folders.

This task must be only by name search & comparison between the rom file and his corresponding art files ( art files, cfg & nv ).

A more complete report tool is essential, specially for search missing art files.

Replacing the INFO column by several "flags" columns ( only Y or N field, except the duplicated column ) may help to sort in a better way rom's problems: inconplete, missing, duplicated, unknow, art 1 file exist, art 2 file exist, ..., CFG file exist & NV file exist.

Also a more powerfull filter for search and manage roms by using CATVER or CATLIST files. This can help to separate roms with status of "Game don't working" or search games by genre.

Thanks for read this, and I waiting for the next non-beta RC !!

[RomCenter]

Thank you for the ideas. I will use them in my current work on romcenter.
Final v2.70 will be release soon, as not much bugs appear in beta 4...