Shirohagen
Brutal Deluxe
Hi everyone,
I was just using iTunes this afternoon and thought what a great idea it would be to have a similar thing for ROMs.
"iROM" could keep lists of all the game ROMs you have on your computer, and let you set up sets for each platform - linked to whatever emulator you use. It could let you put in info like year of release, developer etc and even display the cover artwork like iTunes does, acting like a games database. You could view games by year, developer, genre etc using a sort of ID3 tag for ROM type structure (probably maintained in the seperate database) It could scan for new ROMs on startup and generally just make it all as easy as possible...
...the clever part would come with the addition of the GP32, when you could decide which ROMs to keep on the SMC and which to replace, that way you can maintain an extensive ROM collection on the computer, but make the most of the precious SMC space only carrying around what you want at any given time. iROM could automatically put the last 10 played ROMs on the GP32, or the 10 most played etc etc...
What do you think? Does anyone have the enthusiasm for a project like that? If so, just do me a favour and make a Mac OSX version, as despite Mr Spiv's best efforts I'm already pretty negected as Mac user, and iTunes is Macintosh at heart! ;-)
I have RealBasic for the Mac so I could give it a try, but I'm rubbish! I really wish I could program, as I would definately be making this otherwise! If anyone fancies it just put me down for the 1st copy...
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I was just using iTunes this afternoon and thought what a great idea it would be to have a similar thing for ROMs.
"iROM" could keep lists of all the game ROMs you have on your computer, and let you set up sets for each platform - linked to whatever emulator you use. It could let you put in info like year of release, developer etc and even display the cover artwork like iTunes does, acting like a games database. You could view games by year, developer, genre etc using a sort of ID3 tag for ROM type structure (probably maintained in the seperate database) It could scan for new ROMs on startup and generally just make it all as easy as possible...
...the clever part would come with the addition of the GP32, when you could decide which ROMs to keep on the SMC and which to replace, that way you can maintain an extensive ROM collection on the computer, but make the most of the precious SMC space only carrying around what you want at any given time. iROM could automatically put the last 10 played ROMs on the GP32, or the 10 most played etc etc...
What do you think? Does anyone have the enthusiasm for a project like that? If so, just do me a favour and make a Mac OSX version, as despite Mr Spiv's best efforts I'm already pretty negected as Mac user, and iTunes is Macintosh at heart! ;-)
I have RealBasic for the Mac so I could give it a try, but I'm rubbish! I really wish I could program, as I would definately be making this otherwise! If anyone fancies it just put me down for the 1st copy...
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