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LOL well that would be handy...but right now if I was to get into real programming, it would likely be a C++ project to alter how the Advanced Configuration is done...and maybe speed it up...hehe I just do way to much tweaking. Plus I got a $500 MFC lib that I bought 3 years ago for a project that never happened...hehe so wouldn't mind not seeing that money go to waste.

Hey I just looked at the FAQ yesterday...but only because I wanted to make sure that Virtual CD CLI bit wasn't already in there.

@ headkaze OH SHIT! (runs and hides)

Some nice new features...now if I can just get my system home to where I can enjoy all the new shiny things. Thanks Tom & Ben for the new toys.

Okay I don't know about you...but for me...I generally like shorter names. This requires the making of a custom EMU_*.map file to place in the "DATA" folder of GameEx...since by shorter...I mean removing the preceeding release numbering...and as GameEx doesn' t have regex support it would be difficult or impossible to remove them. I'm not personally in the know of the full dynamic's of *.map files, so you'll have to give me some leyway here. My base understanding is that GameEx will create one for your Emu if there isn't one present...other wise it leaves things alone if there is one present...provided you don't change your filters...which I think at that point cause's GameEx to rebuild the *.map file. I'm not sure if GameEx detects or not the additon or subtraction of roms...if it does then that in all likely hood would force the *.map file to be rebuilt. Any ways my working assumption is that we won't be adding or subtracting...or if we do then we'll recreate what we are about to do here. Okay first of all we need to open our modified *.dat file for our GBA games, then copy all of its contents into a new ASCII file. Next remove the clrmamepro entry...the top 8 lines...to where "game (" is the first line. Now press CTRL+HOME to make sure your at the start of the page, then press CTRL+R in UltraEdit to bring up the replace dialog box. Make sure all the options are the same as what we worked with prior. In the "Find What:" field paste the following: %game*^p*^p*^p*rom ( name "^(*^) - ^(*^) (^(*^).gba*^p)^p Now in the "Replace With:" field paste the following: ^1 - ^2 (^3.gba "^2" If we where to use this list as is now...we would have a lot of duplicate named games...since the replace expression used did not add back the regional and extra data into the displayed quoted text. You can of course change the expression to keep that info if you so choose. How ever I'm just going to remove what regions I don't want...and since I'm in the USA generally speaking what ever Europe has...we have...Japan is really the only ones that normally have a lot of different games...but I don't speak for than a few words in japaness and certainly can not read it. Current regional codes are: So use simple "Find What:" strings like: %*(AU)*^p With blank "Replace With:" fields to remove undesired regions. Next select from the menu's "File\Sort\Sort File (Using Current Options)" Finally save the file as EMU_*.map where the astrick is please use the correct number for your setup. I've attached a US only map file...any ways enjoy

Okay for anyone that may have interest in how I used regular expressions to alter the dat file, I've listed the steps taken....keep in mind this is using UltraEdits flavor of Regex...but its fairly easy to convert over to Unix style...I haven't played with Perl yet...so can't say. First off cut the clrmamepro entry from the file...this should be the first 8 lines of it...paste these lines into a temp file as you'll need to add it back later. Next CTRL+HOME to make sure your at the top of the page, then hit CTRL+R to bring up the replace dialog. Next make sure to check "Regular Expressions" & "Replace All is From Top of File" then make sure "Current File" is selected...and you are actually on the original dat file tab in UltraEdit. Next in the "Find What:" edit field paste below: %^(*name "^)^(*^)] ^(*^)"^p^(*description "^)*"^p^(*rom ( name "^)*.gba"^(*^)^p Next in the "Replace With:" edit field paste below: ^1^3 - ^2]"^p^4^3 - ^2]"^p^5^3 - ^2].gba"^6^p Next press the "Replace All" button and watch things fly...after its done...should just take a second...double check to make sure things are right...then add back in the clrmamepro entry from the other file to the top of the page and save. Okay for those that looked at the above strings and then became dumb-founded...I'm posting strings that are simplier to understand...but you'll still need to reference the UltraEdit Help file under Regular Expression to come to grips with things as I don't intend to give a tutorial on regex...mainly since I'm no expert. Any ways each line below is to be done with the corasponding line in the replace code box...these are not done all together. Find: %^(*name "^)^(*^)] ^(*^)"^p %^(*description "^)^(*^)] ^(*^)"^p %^(*rom ( name "^)^(*^)] ^(*^).gba"^(*^)^p Replace: ^1^3 - ^2]"^p ^1^3 - ^2]"^p ^1^3 - ^2].gba"^4^p Well best of luck to those looking to possibly maintain this should I disappear off the face of the earth.

Correct....Well I'll see about creating a modified dat file for use in ClrMAMEPro. I don't know about you but I had to run the script twice in order to get every thing available...its safe to do this as it first checks to see if you have the file already...if so it skips it...if not it downloads it....so run time is greatly reduced. I just had time out issues while downloading is why I was short on files...but figured I should make mention of it...just encase you hadn't check the file count...box art will be short no matter what...but the cover box art should be close...and rear...hehe well not much there. *Update* Attached Modified Dat file for use with ClrMAMEPro (Thank god for regex)

ADVANsCEne Release Dat 2558 DOWNLOAD (for ClrMAME Pro) except that I have the release number rotated around in the script to where its first rather than last in the name. To change it to match the raw dat file alter $name to look like so: $name = $array[4] & ' ' & $array[1]

Simple FYI I'll look into creating a basic INI file.

Okay here is my current leech script...it'll download and rename every thing up to release #2558 At the top of the leech.au3 script you'll see two files referenced...."Long.txt" & "Short.txt" one of which is commented out with a semi-colon...which better be the Long.txt Basic idea is to run the script as is to get an idea of how the naming is done...if you don't like it you can change the markup for $name in the script to be more to your liking. Once you got things right...comment out short.txt and uncomment long.txt and let her rip. Please don't go sharing this script all that fast...other wise the Admin of the site will be forced to alter the folder pathing...and more than likely put in place some security to prevent this kind of thing. So everyone please act accordingly. *Update* Changed code over to be more like whats in the NDS_Leech application...hence a GUI of sorts.

LOL, well thanks for the offer.

Well court is slow going...Dec 8th is the next appearance...then we'll find out whats going on from there. However I've about reached the limit I can hit for pissing off the judge...so if I don't get raided a few days after that...I'll be bringing my baby home. Hehe because I hate this hunk of shit I'm using right now...that and I'm having real virtual penis issues...hehe going from 2tb+ to 120gb isn't going over well. Give me a bit and I'll see about posting my leech script...and then a renamer for you...that will convert every thing over to the matching long name. hehe tho its getting my side tracked from my virtual drive stuff.

Hehe I'm getting slow.

Okay got a hair up my ass and decided to try and create a collection of CLI strings for all the major Virtual CD\DVD software out there. I figured this would helpful for beginners and experts alike. Well if you see any that I don't have please by all means add it to the list...please maintain the default installation path for the software and list it was markup that would be used by GameEx. Thanks Alcohol 120% ShareWare Alcohol 52% FreeWare Supports: *.bin; *.bwi; *.bws; *.bwt; *.ccd; *.cdi; *.cue; *.img; *.iso; *.mds; *.nrg; *.nri; *.pdi; *.sub "C:\Program Files\Alcohol Soft\Alcohol 52\AxCmd.exe" D: /M:"[RomPath]\[RomFile]" "C:\Program Files\Alcohol Soft\Alcohol 52\AxCmd.exe" D: /U DAEMON Tools FreeWare Supports: *.b5t; *.bin; *.bwt; *.ccd; *.cdi; *.cue; *.iso; *.mds; *.nrg; *.pdi "C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools\daemon.exe" -mount 0,"[RomPath]\[RomFile]" "C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools\daemon.exe" -unmount 0 MagicDisc FreeWare Supports: *.000; *.bin; *.bwi; *.bwt; *.c2d; *.ccd; *.cdi; *.cif; *.dao; *.ima; *.img; *.md1; *.mdf; *.mds; *.nrg; *.p01; *.pdi; *.tao; *.uif; *.vaporcd; *.vc4; *.vcd; *.vdi; *.xa "C:\Program Files\MagicDisc\miso.exe" NULL -mnt 1 "[RomPath]\[RomFile]" "C:\Program Files\MagicDisc\miso.exe" NULL -umnt 1 PowerISO ShareWare Supports: *.ashdisc; *.b5i; *.bin; *.bwi; *.c2d; *.cdi; *.cif; *.cue; *.daa; *.fcd; *.gi; *.img; *.iso; *.lcd; *.mdf; *.mds; *.ncd; *.nrg; *.p01; *.pdi; *.pxi; *.vcd "C:\Program Files\PowerISO\piso.exe" mount "[RomPath]\[RomFile]" D: "C:\Program Files\PowerISO\piso.exe" unmount D: Virtual CD ShareWare Supports: *.b5i; *.bin; *.bwi; *.c2d; *.img; *.iso; *.mdf; *.nrg; *.vc4; *.xmf "C:\Program Files\Virtual CD v8\System\vc8cmd.exe" /i "[RomPath]\[RomFile]" D: "C:\Program Files\Virtual CD v8\System\vc8cmd.exe" /e D: Virtual CloneDrive FreeWare "C:\Program Files\Elaborate Bytes\VirtualCloneDrive\VCDMount.exe" /d=0 "[RomPath]\[RomFile]" "C:\Program Files\Elaborate Bytes\VirtualCloneDrive\VCDMount.exe" /u Image File Formats *.000 = Virtual CD *.ashdisc = Ashampoo *.b5i = BlindWrite 5 *.b5t = BlindWrite 5 *.bin = CDRWin *.bwi = BlindWrite *.bws = BlindWrite *.bwt = BlindWrite *.c2d = WinOnCD *.ccd = CloneCD *.cdi = DiscJuggler *.cif = Easy CD/DVD Creator *.cue = CDRWin *.daa = Direct Access Archive *.dao = Duplicator *.fcd = Virtual CD-ROM *.gi = RecordNow *.ima = CloneCD *.img = CloneCD *.iso = Standard ISO *.lcd = CDSpace *.md1 = Gear *.mdf = Alcohol 120% *.mds = Media Descriptor *.ncd = NTI CD-Maker *.nrg = Nero *.nri = Nero *.p01 = Gear *.pdi = Instant CD/DVD *.pxi = PlexTools *.sub = CloneCD *.tao = Duplicator *.vaporcd = Noum Vapor CDROM *.vc4 = Virtual CD *.vcd = Virtual Drive *.vdi = Virtuo CD Manager *.xa = Gear *.xmf = CDRWin Notes: Its important to disable any sort of AutoPlay\AutoStart feature for any drive used for emulation. I highly suggest using TweakUI to disable Windows own AutoPlay feature. Directions: Once you've installed TweakUI, you'll find a lot of options in it. For our current problem, in TweakUI expand My Computer, and then AutoPlay. Click on Drives, and uncheck the drive letter that you no longer want to AutoPlay. Click on Apply, and that's it. No more "what would you like me to do" dialogs.

hehe

Doh! Actually if you want to get hella anal about it...the actual commandline should be "epsxe.exe -nogui" That should do it if you have a disc in the drive.

The code could be simplified a bit I feel. Course for the massively anal- *runs and hides* Tho ether of the two above versions assume that it will be compiled next to the Emu.

Good to hear

LOL I wish that was the case. Really this shouldn't take much time...mostly I'm trying to figure out whats the best route to go...rather than just slapping things together. That and like I've said in prior threads...hehe I'm a newbie.

No it didn't get snatched...I just moved it else where for the time being. Actually its my brother thats having legal issues...I just happen to be the guy pissing off the Judge because he's a jackass, and dirty. I'll have to tell you guys about this stuff later on...its simply insane...and if I wasn't living through it, I frankly wouldn't believe it if some one had told me the whole sorted story...because by and large its like one of those made for TV court drama's. Really once I get a full grasp of just how fucked up things are, this will in all likely hood make it into the papers and maybe national news...its that ugly up. Hehe anyways we are off topic, and this forum & app are kind of my escape from the bs right now...so don't really want to get this sucked into it as well.

Thats probably caused by using a different font size or theme than what was originally used by windows. That and I did alter some values to where they seemed to have worked better for me...but maybe what Tom was using was a better average. The main part that got altered is bellow: ; Launch Game WinWaitActive ( 'Load Rom' ) WinSetOnTop ( 'Load Rom' , '' , 1 ) MouseClick ( 'left' , 65 , 79 - 30 , 1 , 1 ) MouseClick ( 'left' , $MouseX , $MouseY - 30 , 2 , 1 ) I think Tom used a "- 15" to my "- 30" or some thing different all together...its been a while...hehe maybe Tom will need to hack, my hack of his work.

Ideally it should be a lot faster to use the automated script than to redownload every thing. Plus right now I don't have my main system...so I don't even have any wheres close to a fullset...since there is a huge difference in storage between the two systems...2tb vs 100gb. Hehe not to mention I'm in a huge pissing match with a superior court judge right now....which is why my main system isn't here right now...don't want to get caught with my pants down.

Model 2 Emulator v0.3 GameEx Unzip it into "C:\Program Files\GameEx" or what ever your actual path is to the main GameEx folder...besure to over write the one that is currently present.

Yeah I have two in there...so you'll have to decide how you want things. If you just want to keep the same behavior...then download the one marked GameEx, and simply drop it in over writing Toms original. If you select the other one...well there's more work to be done to get it to work correctly...but this way it will be treated like any other Emu.

As you wish...but things should be fine. Hehe I just tend to scare people some times. I've attached whats been generated thus far from my surfing script. The first few numbers prior to the pipe symbol "|" are their release numbers...then followed by the CRC32 value...then lastly image number...as you can tell they are not in sync...which I'll be correcting and uploading an archive of the corrected files some where. *Update* Okay things are starting to come together...now attached is notes and scripts I intend to post over at http://www.advanscene.com/ mainly dealing with getting their numbers matching up between release & image numbers. Getting there tho