EmuMovies Download Service Utility Private Beta

[Circo]

I am happy to announce that our new Download Service Utility is now in Private Beta Testing.

This new service has been in development for the better part of the year and has been tough for me to be quiet about. This is a reinvention in how we here at EmuMovies intend to deliver content. This is not a replacement for the FTP but another "More Efficient" way to deliver content to our members.

What this does is allow the Member to populate their front end with videos and artwork with just a couple of button clicks. It compares your rom folder to the content on the server and only downloads the content that you need. It also automatically renames all media files to match your Roms, alleviating the need to use 3rd party re-namers such as fat-match. Basically this means that a months work of sorting and renaming to get everything working in your front-end take only a matter of minutes. Everything is completely automatic needing only the simplest direction of the Member.

As of 8/20/2010 Lifetime Members, Content Contributors, Developers, and Staff have all been invited to participate in the private beta. Hopefully we will open it up to other member classes soon. This service utilizes it's own separate server that the site and FTP. So it's important that we take some baby steps as we work out the final bugs and polish up the service. We would very much appreciate any and all feedback on this service so we can get it out to everyone as quickly as possible.

See the video below for a complete demo and walk through:

(The audio got a little mangled but I didn't want to wait to get this out)

[fRequEnCy]

That's great news, Circo! We thank you for your work and for the contribution. Congratulations on such news.

[kewlkat007]

Just fn Awesome.....I been doing all of this the last 6 months emulating around 20 hardware..So much work.

1. Does it create a log file(in the roms folder) of what it actually renamed? That would be nice.

2. I only download/care about USA and sometimes World Roms(for Arcades), would be nice if you could integrate a Dat file to choose only those roms or

just certain ones you want(Via Check Boxes), before it goes and search for matches.

3.I do use the No-Intro [RomName](Region Initials, not letter).zip, maybe a built in Database could be added in the future to make this complete.

I will test this out, I'm on Daphne right now.

Thanks for the Hardwork Circo and this wonderful board.

[Stub]

That will save me a huge amount of room. I kept a second copy of the EMUMovies on a data drive that I could sync up every so often to the arcade because the paths and formats were completely different. Whenever I updated and someone had changed a folder name I got tons of extra duplicate files.

Thanks!

[bkenobi]

This is a really great idea. Thanks for the work you and your team have done. I don't know what ever happened to my login to emumovies, but I guess it must have been eliminated in the server change or something. I guess now would be a good time to buy another subscription!

[Circo]

This is a really great idea. Thanks for the work you and your team have done. I don't know what ever happened to my login to emumovies, but I guess it must have been eliminated in the server change or something. I guess now would be a good time to buy another subscription!

Ben, I thought you were a lifetime member? Just register on the new site and send my a pm via the messenger and I can set you back up. I would also like to welcome Tom to the EmuMovies team. He is the lead programmer on this new project and he deserves a huge shout out.

[Tempest]

Just fn Awesome.....I been doing all of this the last 6 months emulating around 20 hardware..So much work.

1. Does it create a log file(in the roms folder) of what it actually renamed? That would be nice.

2. I only download/care about USA and sometimes World Roms(for Arcades), would be nice if you could integrate a Dat file to choose only those roms or

just certain ones you want(Via Check Boxes), before it goes and search for matches.

3.I do use the No-Intro [RomName](Region Initials, not letter).zip, maybe a built in Database could be added in the future to make this complete.

I will test this out, I'm on Daphne right now.

Thanks for the Hardwork Circo and this wonderful board.

Re-read Circo's post. It renames the art to match your roms, and only downloads art for the roms that you have.

[celly]

This is such a huge leap forward in the scene! Thanks for the hard work to the EmuMovies team. I really can't wait to get home and give this a spin.

[fRequEnCy]

I would also like to welcome Tom to the EmuMovies team. He is the lead programmer on this new project and he deserves a huge shout out.

Congrats Tom! Very nice!

[B2K24]

Very awesome. I can't wait to try this out. I hope I can be a beta tester

[JamminJ]

What an awesome project!! becoming a lifetime member now!! Thanks Tom too!!

[Circo]

I have just expanded the beta testing group to include supporting members with a post count of 5 or more.