Romcenter

Okay, sorry if this is stupid or redundant, but I start using Romcenter a few days ago in an attempt to build a clean set of SNES and NES roms via the No-Intro nameset.

After installing all my games showed gray. I did some more seraching and found the header deal. After laboring through figuring out how to use UCON64, I found that with NES games that Good*** verified as clean (IE: just [!]) they were still grey after stripping the header. The other problem was that I tested a SNES rom that was gray, then stripped the header and it came up green. I was actually quite pleased to see the work actually pay off, but the problem was that when I tried to zip the file it went yellow again, claiming bad name. (it wanted the .smc and not .zip) I tried to use the rezip function in Romcenter, but it doesn't do anything as far as I can tell.

Question 1: Are [!] roms not clean according to No-Intro?
Question 2: Are zipped files not going to show up green if it wants the uncompressed file ext?

We have the same problem, it seems that the CRC values from the NES system @ No-Intro are wrong, i think the creator had RIP HEADERS in the NES roms, and did not strip the header away, who is creating a new pack ,more info: http://ecc.phoenixinteractive.mine.nu/v ... =27&t=1895

Scattershot wrote:Okay, sorry if this is stupid or redundant, but I start using Romcenter a few days ago in an attempt to build a clean set of SNES and NES roms via the No-Intro nameset.

Good point. I recommand using no-intro (http://www.no-intro.org/) . The roms listed are all clean with only game binary.
which version of romcenter ? Please use the 3.00

After installing all my games showed gray. I did some more seraching and found the header deal. After laboring through figuring out how to use UCON64, I found that with NES games that Good*** verified as clean (IE: just [!]) they were still grey after stripping the header. The other problem was that I tested a SNES rom that was gray, then stripped the header and it came up green. I was actually quite pleased to see the work actually pay off, but the problem was that when I tried to zip the file it went yellow again, claiming bad name. (it wanted the .smc and not .zip) I tried to use the rezip function in Romcenter, but it doesn't do anything as far as I can tell.

You must use the romcenter dat (RC), not the (CM) to use plugins.
Be sure you use the correct plugin: go into about/plugin tab, and check you have nes.dll or snes.dll, and not arcade.dll.
Your files should appear yellow for most of them (bad name).

Question 1: Are [!] roms not clean according to No-Intro?

I'm not really sure it does... Maybe someone can give more infos?

Question 2: Are zipped files not going to show up green if it wants the uncompressed file ext?

hmmm...
I don't really understand. When you zip your file, rc wants to name it smc instead of zip ? What is the ext of your snes rom ?

with header: .smc, .fig
without header: bin (=mgd)

You always have the choice to use zipped or unzipped files. But you can't normally choose the file ext. It depends of the files structure, size and header.
RomCenter plugins analyse roms and calculate the correct extension for them.
Please give me an example of a file with this problem.

The best thing to do is to remove all extra header using various tools like ucon64. You will have only good clean files with only game datas and no useless headers.