Posted: 12/1/2007 12:01 PM
Post subject: GoodGBA
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I know it's a tool for labeling selected ROMs. Asking questions about it twice in IRC didn't help me since no-one bothered explaining it to me, so I'm starting this topic. Is it legal? Where to find it? How to use it? Thanks.
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Posted: 12/1/2007 12:06 PM
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I take it you have already asked here.
Posted: 12/1/2007 3:49 PM
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Is it legal? Yes. No copyrighted material is contained within the software, and its use is perfectly legal regardless of how you use it. But honestly, if you're using it to catalog ROMs, I'm not sure why you care about legality. :p Where to find it? Google is a good place to start, seeing as the project doesn't have a home page. How to use it? Unless you love working from a command line, I suggest you get a frontend of some sort. Unfortunately, the ones I'm familiar with are still buggy as hell under XP, but I was able to get GoodUI to work as long as I exited the program after completing a task, rather than jumping right into another task.
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Posted: 12/1/2007 3:57 PM
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superjupi wrote:
seeing as the project doesn't have a home page
Amusingly, its homepage is linked to from the first page of google results I linked to in my previous post.
Posted: 12/1/2007 4:05 PM
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Here's the homepage, I advise you also get GoodWindows it's just a frontend for the GoodTools and for the Romdoctor tools
Posted: 12/1/2007 4:16 PM
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I prefer GBArenamer. Today, it was mixed with some other tools, such as DSrenamer, and named differently. I don't remember its new name as I didn't need to use it recently.
Posted: 12/1/2007 5:57 PM
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moozooh wrote:
superjupi wrote:
seeing as the project doesn't have a home page
Amusingly, its homepage is linked to from the first page of google results I linked to in my previous post.
Heh. Well, it was true at one point that the project didn't have a home page. :/
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Posted: 12/2/2007 5:22 PM
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Searching led to this: After more searching I got these files: Umm what to do now? Remember I'm a 16 year old German, not an experienced coder.
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Posted: 12/2/2007 6:47 PM
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That's a list of commands. When you run the program (on the command line - you're using WinXP so do Start -> Run -> "cmd" and then navigate to where you have GoodGBA) you have to give it commands in the same line you tell it to run. So if you wanted it to scan all the ROMs you have in D:\Emu\GBA\ROMs then you'd write "GoodGBA scan D:\Emu\GBA\ROMs" and it'd do the rest. If you wanted it to rename all your files without destroing information, you'd use "rename" instead of "scan", and if you didn't care about what they werenamed before you'd use "inplace", etc.
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Posted: 12/3/2007 11:54 PM
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I do this: 1) Place the desired ROMs in the folder with GoodGBA. 2) Make a file, using Notepad. The file is named "rename.bat" (only .bat part is important) and contains one line: "start /wait goodgba rename". 3) Run "rename.bat". 4) GoodGBA should take all your ROMs, rename them, and move them to a "GBARen" folder.
Posted: 12/24/2007 6:59 PM
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Sorry, but none of your suggestions didn't help me much. FractalFusion, I did what you listed, but there was no GBAren folder in the end. Maybe because I used Wordpad instead of Notepad (simply because there is no Notepad available on my PC). Boco, I wasn't able to follow your instructions. To be honest, I'm a newb at PC techniques and can only make guesses. Nevertheless, thank you for your help so far. I appreciate it!
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Posted: 12/24/2007 7:07 PM
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MUGG wrote:
Maybe because I used Wordpad instead of Notepad (simply because there is no Notepad available on my PC)
Try this: Click your start menu, go to run, type in "notepad.exe" without the quotes, and press enter.
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Posted: 12/24/2007 7:10 PM
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Thank you, it works now.
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