Emu Extras

[Stu1983]

I've created a pretty simple application that will read your GameEx config and show what extras you are missing for each rom.

Currently it checks the status of all the supported images paths that GameEx uses e.g. Snap, Title, Cartridge, etc...

It will also check the MDB assigned to the selected emulator and tell you if a game matches a naming convention, meaning you should be seeing information for that game in GameEx

To run the application simply copy it to your GameEx directory and double click

The application reports the file extensions of the files it finds so the attached screenshot shows that for 'Alien 3' I have both an AVI and a PNG in my Snap directory. 'Alien 3' also matches all 3 naming conventions in the MDB so this game should have information displayed in GameEx. 'Assault City' however only has an AVI and does not match any name in the MDB so will not have information displayed in GameEx.

There is also an export to CSV option if you want to get save the results.

Stu

EmuExtras.zip

[mesk]

Nice! this will come in handy! thank you!

[fRequEnCy]

Thanks for the contribution!

[Draco1962]

Thanks, Stu! Found that I had a few paths set incorrectly after a recent hard disk move!

[starbuck]

Thanks Stu

[ehuonder]

Thanks for this contribution! It will definitely come in handy!

[AlphaUMi]

Very useful! Thanks Stu!

[Kustom Kid]

Amazing. Thank you.

[celly]

Excellent Stu! Thanks.

[GoTheBunnies]

Nice app Stu - thanks. One question - it finds all my emulators, but doesn't see my MAME roms nor give me the option to choose MAME to be checked?

[Stu1983]

Nice app Stu - thanks. One question - it finds all my emulators, but doesn't see my MAME roms nor give me the option to choose MAME to be checked?

Yeah I haven't gotten around to reading the Mame paths out of the GameEx.ini yet, all the emulators are stored in the same format so if I can read one emulator I can read the other possible 62 with no extra effort. Mame is stored elsewhere in the GameEx.ini so I still need to write the code to go find it.

I do plan to add this at some stage but at the moment I'm concentrating on spring cleaning my emualtors.

As a temporary fix if you really need it now, you can add Mame into an Emulator slot and my tool will find it.

All you need to do is set the emulator to Enabled, populate the various image paths and set the roms folder to your mame roms directory, leave all the other settings blank as I don't care about them.

Then run my tool and it will tell you what you are missing.

Obviously you'll not want 2 Mame in GameEx so once you're finished go back in and disable the temporary emulator and GameEx will be none the wiser.

Stu

[magicm]

Sweet tool!!! However, my results are coming back as 'Missing' under database, yet I'm getting the game description, etc in GameEx.

[GoTheBunnies]

Yeah I haven't gotten around to reading the Mame paths out of the GameEx.ini yet, all the emulators are stored in the same format so if I can read one emulator I can read the other possible 62 with no extra effort. Mame is stored elsewhere in the GameEx.ini so I still need to write the code to go find it.

I do plan to add this at some stage but at the moment I'm concentrating on spring cleaning my emualtors.

As a temporary fix if you really need it now, you can add Mame into an Emulator slot and my tool will find it.

All you need to do is set the emulator to Enabled, populate the various image paths and set the roms folder to your mame roms directory, leave all the other settings blank as I don't care about them.

Then run my tool and it will tell you what you are missing.

Obviously you'll not want 2 Mame in GameEx so once you're finished go back in and disable the temporary emulator and GameEx will be none the wiser.

Stu

Brilliant - thanks Stu!

[Stu1983]

Sweet tool!!! However, my results are coming back as 'Missing' under database, yet I'm getting the game description, etc in GameEx.

Can you give me a couple of examples please? I'm expecting an exact match in the database I'm not sure if GameEx tries to find a best match if it can't find an exact match

Stu

[Stu1983]

Sweet tool!!! However, my results are coming back as 'Missing' under database, yet I'm getting the game description, etc in GameEx.

I've just thought of a possible reason for this. Do your roms have (U) and what not after them? this would be why they are not being found in the database as the database doesn't have any bracketed text. All my roms however have all the bracketed text removed so this is why I never noticed. I have code somewhere that already sorts this so I'll look into improving this.

Stu

[magicm]

I've just thought of a possible reason for this. Do your roms have (U) and what not after them? this would be why they are not being found in the database as the database doesn't have any bracketed text. All my roms however have all the bracketed text removed so this is why I never noticed. I have code somewhere that already sorts this so I'll look into improving this.

Stu

Yes Stu, my rom names all contain parenthesis or parenthesis and brackets.

[Stu1983]

Yes Stu, my rom names all contain parenthesis or parenthesis and brackets.

I've just attached a new version to my first post which should help the database results

Stu

[magicm]

I've just attached a new version to my first post which should help the database results

Stu

The new version seemed to have fixed the problem. Thanks!