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Jansar · Mar 4, 2003, 12:49 AM

I'm having real problems with it!

My problems are the following:

? Every time I start up the program, the roms that were previously listed are GONE. (Which means I have to do it over, which I totally refuse to do.)

? Perfectly good roms that become "bad checksum" or whatever no longer function, whcih means that "ROM Organizer" fuked up the roms.

Anyone know what's going on here?

erise · Mar 4, 2003, 11:06 PM

ROM Organizer, unfortunately, does not save rom lists. If you want to use it, you'll have to rescan your roms every time.

As far as the roms being marked bad checksum not working, it shouldn't be doing that. Maybe you have it set in the preferences to compress the roms and the emulator that you are using won't work with compressed roms.

mh0ffmann · Mar 6, 2003, 10:46 AM

The idea behind Rom Organizer is great, but it's useless for the following two reasons:

1) inability to save Rom lists (as noted above); and

2) failure to recognize MAME "roms" in zip files (which is the standard format for MAME type emulators).

As soon as there's an upgrade that addresses these issues, I'll gladly pay for it.

Mark

erise · Apr 13, 2003, 12:19 PM

ROM Organizer 1.1 now supports saving your rom lists! It makes the program much more usable now. No support for MAME zip files, though.

Guy Incognito 2 · Apr 13, 2003, 03:10 PM

ROM Org is junk...it's only really useful to check if your ROM dumps are fine and zip 'em up.

As far as organizing or browsing goes, it's garbage. ROMs would benefit from an iTunes-style browser (hopefully 10.3 will bring some sort of easy way to query specific file types and solve half my problems...well it's not a problem per se but, ya know...) Being able to put some metadata on ROMs would greatly increase ease of browsing. Setting 'arcade' or 'side-scroller' or 'Konami' attributes to ROMs would allow easy browsing. So you could slowly filter down to the roms you want easily.

SNES --> side-scroller --> Konami

Would allow you to find all the Konami side-scrollers on SNES.

I know this doesn't sound amazing to most people...esecially those that only have a few ROMs, but this would but really cool for people with lots of ROMs that don't like creating folder and sub-folders themeselves to try and sort ROMs.