Circo

I focus on front-ends, it makes sense, and drama lol

There is also a poll for voting on your favorite front end, so far Gameex only has 1 vote so please guys express your support for your favorite FE

Very cool, feeling thirsty just watching it

I finally put together a step by step guide on how to properly make video snaps to submit to the EmuMovies project. It is a work in progress and I will keep tweaking it to make it more comprehensive but it takes you step by step on how to do it. Click on the link to view: EmuMovies Video Snap Creation Guide - Quick and Dirty Edition I have been getting more feedback lately from users who would like to help so I hope you guys find this useful. I'm giving up trade secrets here

I would like to announce the opening of the Official EmuMovies discussion forums. First of all I would like to express my thanks to Tom for his advice and urging You may notice some minor similarities to the GameEx forum (I went with the same provider). I actually had a forum back when the site first opened but it kept getting hacked and I just gave up, it's nice to have a secure hosted solution that I won't have to mess with. It's brand new and I am sure there will be changes made in the near future but we are now up and running. If you have an FTP account at EmuMovies please send me a PM once you have registered and I will adjust your access level. Currently this only gives you access to the premium users message board but I have bigger plans for this in the future. Thanks again Tom for encouraging me to announce this on your board. Thanks, Circo

I responded to your email, I can't find a record of a subscription under your email. Take a look and let me know thanks.

I just wanted to say that all ftp accounts have been sent out.

Sorry been pulled out of town all week and didnt have the internet access I was hoping for. Got a notification on my phone of the thread here and thought I should respond. I will be setting up accts tomorrow as soon as I fly in, sorry for the delay. Happy Gaming, Circo

the new server is up to date now. i saw that you sent an email yesterday but wasnt around. make sure that you look in the sq folders because thats what most sets are. if you are getting time-outs then switch your settings to active mode. i use cuteftp so cant answer questions about your client.

I have known seedbad since high school and he has killed himself over this theme lol. I will also be using wood for some of my new pages on emumovies in a couple of weeks so there will be plenty of youtube demos too

I am slowly using fatmatch to audit and rename the sets over at emumovies, and though it can be a bit tedious and slow on the large sets it does get the job done well. (Slow and Tedious is nothing against the software it just is what it is, a wonderful program really) I can recommend nothing else.

and if you are a registered gameex user you get a pretty hefty discount as well.

I think thats because many of the model 2 games or in Non Working status within Mame, try setting it up with the model 2 emulator

This is what I was able to do with FatMatch yesterday, waiting on the new version to do the larger sets (Everything is available on the FTP): OTHER - OFFICIAL Atari - 2600 [boxes][GoodMerge 2600 3.14][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 2600 [Manuals][GoodMerge 2600 3.14][EmuMovies 20090223] Atari - 2600 [Overlays][GoodMerge 2600 3.14][EmuMovies 20090223] Atari - 2600 [snaps][GoodMerge 2600 3.14][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 5200 [boxes][GoodMerge 5200 2.04][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 5200 [Cartridges][GoodMerge 5200 2.04][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 5200 [Manuals][GoodMerge 5200 2.04][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 5200 [Overlays][GoodMerge 5200 2.04][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 5200 [snaps][GoodMerge 5200 2.04][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 5200 [Titles][GoodMerge 5200 2.04][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 5200 [boxes][No-Intro 20081124][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 5200 [Cartridges][No-Intro 20081124][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 5200 [Manuals][No-Intro 20081124][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 5200 [Overlays][No-Intro 20081124][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 5200 [snaps][No-Intro 20081124][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 5200 [Titles][No-Intro 20081124][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 7800 [boxes][GoodMerge 7800 2.04][EmuMovies 20090223] Atari - 7800 [Cartridges][GoodMerge 7800 2.04][EmuMovies 20090223] Atari - 7800 [Manuals][GoodMerge 7800 2.04][EmuMovies 20090223] Atari - 7800 [snaps][GoodMerge 7800 2.04][EmuMovies 20090223] Atari - 7800 [Titles][GoodMerge 7800 2.04][EmuMovies 20090223] Atari - Jaguar [boxes][GoodMerge Jag 2.01][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - Jaguar [Cartridges][GoodMerge Jag 2.01][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - Jaguar [Manuals][GoodMerge Jag 2.01][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - Jaguar [Overlays][GoodMerge Jag 2.01][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - Jaguar [snaps][GoodMerge Jag 2.01][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - Jaguar [Titles][GoodMerge Jag 2.01][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - Jaguar [boxes][No-Intro 20040710)[EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - Jaguar [Cartridges][No-Intro 20040710)[EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - Jaguar [Manuals][No-Intro 20040710)[EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - Jaguar [Overlays][No-Intro 20040710)[EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - Jaguar [snaps][No-Intro 20040710)[EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - Jaguar [Titles][No-Intro 20040710)[EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - Lynx [boxes][GoodMerge Lynx 2.01][EmuMovies 20090225] Atari - Lynx [Cartridges][GoodMerge Lynx 2.01][EmuMovies 20090225] Atari - Lynx [Manuals][GoodMerge Lynx 2.01][EmuMovies 20090225] Atari - Lynx [snaps][GoodMerge Lynx 2.01][EmuMovies 20090225] Atari - Lynx [Titles][GoodMerge Lynx 2.01][EmuMovies 20090225] Atari - Lynx [boxes][No-Intro 20081228][EmuMovies 20090225] Atari - Lynx [Cartridges][No-Intro 20081228][EmuMovies 20090225] Atari - Lynx [Manuals][No-Intro 20081228][EmuMovies 20090225] Atari - Lynx [snaps][No-Intro 20081228][EmuMovies 20090225] Atari - Lynx [Titles][No-Intro 20081228][EmuMovies 20090225] VIDEOS - OFFICIAL Atari - 2600 [Videos][AVI-SQ][GoodMerge 2600 3.14][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 2600 [Videos][FLV-SQ][GoodMerge 2600 3.14][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 5200 [Videos][AVI-SQ][GoodMerge 5200 2.01][EmuMovies 20090223] Atari - 5200 [Videos][AVI-SQ][No-Intro 20081124][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 5200 [Videos][FLV-SQ][No-Intro 20081124][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 7800 [Videos][AVI-SQ][GoodMerge 7800 2.04][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - 7800 [Videos][FLV-SQ][GoodMerge 7800 2.04][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - Jaguar [Videos][AVI-SQ][GoodMerge Jag 2.01][EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - Jaguar [Videos][AVI-SQ][No-Intro 20040710)[EmuMovies 20090224] Atari - Jaguar [Videos][FLV-SQ][No-Intro 20040710)[EmuMovies 20090224] Nintendo - NES [Videos][AVI-HiQ][GoodMerge NES 3.14] [EmuMovies 20090225] Once you get out the new release, I should start really flying and then I can start auditing with that missing list

One more thing, when auditing, if you have a 100% match it shouldn't show up in the list, just move the files along with the others when you click the rename button.

After using the program for about 6 hours yesterday (it works very well) I did have some ideas that while not all necessary might stll be nice to have. - While great for small sets it can be tedious on very large sets. I renamed all videos, carts, overlays, snaps, manuals, titles for Atari 7800 and 5200 last night to both the latest no intro naming and goodmerge naming. FatMatch was a champ through the whole process, my only gripe is that my mouse finger was hurt And then when I decided to start working on the Atari 2600 set it was just too much. While I did find the value of verifying each match, Pac-Man would have been an issue, it just took so long to expand and select each match. So I bounced around ideas all day on how to improve speed while maintaining accuracy. I am no programmer so if any or all of these ideas are way out in left field don't worry about it. - If one file is a possible match with multiple roms auto select the one that is the best match, also one file can not auto match with more than one rom. When it auto matches the tree automatically expands so all you have do do is scroll down and verify the changes. What really wold be nice about this, if you had say 5 artwork packs for one system, you are likely to have the same naming issues with each set. So once you rename the first one you would know what changes to make on the others, therefore saving you the trouble of having to so closely review the other sets. - Highlight matches below a certain threshold, lets say you have it set to the default 65%, you could have every match say below 75% highlights so that you can verify the changes more closely while glossing over the non-highlighted changes. I would also highlight multiple matches. I think the auto expand and auto select, at least for the single matches is a necessity because the only rub of the program is all the clicking in my humble opinion. However it's incredibly useful and even now cuts out a ton of work. One bug: if you accidentally select an empty artwork directory the program crashes, maybe it could just have a dialog box warning you if you select an empty directory. Bravo!

lol try clicking the banner in my signature line or goto emumovies.com you are going to emumovies.net

We are back online.

Ok I have tested this pretty extensively and I have some feedback for you, first off you deserve a big hell yeah! One of my biggest problems over at emumovies is that the file names are outdated in a lot of cases creating a lot of work for you guys well with this little app I have completely updated and renamed 3 sets in an evening My only real issue is that the list missing button doesn't seem to work, this would be so great because i could quickly fill the gaps in our video and artwork sets. Any idea when it will be functional? Also I think in the tree view it should have the option of auto selecting the matches and auto branch the tree when there are multiple choices for the files. Once you get out of beta I will definately pimp this software all over emumovies. great stuff and thank you!

I could have got away with the same hosting solution that I had before but sooner or later I would have to move again, I did a lot of research on how much bandwidth (unlimited) actually is, and it's no where near that. And with the way the ftp works there is no real way to limit it. So now it doesn't really matter, I was able to secure a stupid amount of bandwidth Anyway, the reason why flv is used in hyperspin I fully support and I think that will be it as far as formats go. And the work is all involved in making the original sets anyway, but i sincerely appreciate your concern. I know I am not there yet but the goal for the site is to make finding and using all of the videos and artwork sets as simple as possible, and for the site to be stable while doing it. So I think that it will all work out ok, there are a lot of great EmuMovies Supporters that really do make all of this possible. So I will continue to work hard at getting all of this good stuff out to the community. Thanks for the kind words, Circo

I'm going to try this out if it works well would you mind if I posted a link to it on my site?

What is your email address?

Well its done and we are back up, I have 2 days of backlog emails to get through and will be working on that the rest of the day, whew!

I think as we are now seeing $99 1TB drives, the space concern won't matter as much in the near future.