uCON64 v0.9.8-1

posted in Utility Release by spacetiger on Jul 12th, 2003

The latest version of uCON64, the extremely powerful and portable ROM management utility, has been upped to version 0.9.8-1. There is a very long list of changes:

fixed problems with -rename & -rrom for files without a suffix
links (including symbolic links) are handled correctly for -rename & -rrom
added support for I/O port driver io.dll to the Windows ports
added (SNES) -xfig send/receive ROM to/from Pro Fighter; --file=PORT
added (SNES) -xfigs send/receive SRAM to/from Pro Fighter; --file=PORT
added (all) --mkdat=DATFILE create DAT file based on a directory/list of ROMs
updated (N64) fixed -usms
updated (all) fixed problem with -rename when output directory is on another file system (M$ speak: drive)
added MinGW build support (including libdiscmage)
changed name of two property variables: now configdir is named ucon64_configdir and datdir is named ucon64_datdir
updated (SNES) changed checksum calculation function so that it is stricter
updated (SNES) added more verbose BS info
updated (GB) fixed -n2gb, -gbx & -sgb
updated (SNES) replaced -ehi with -erom (force ROM is "Extended") in order to support the two Extended LoROM dumps
updated (SNES) added initial support for Sufami Turbo ROMs
added support for GameCube images to libdiscmage (by NoisyB, thanks to gc-nfo.com)
updated (SNES) improved detection of interleaved ROMs
updated (SNES) -smc, -swc, -fig, -mgd & -gd3 (if it's a LoROM dump) automatically deinterleave the ROM data if the ROM is detected as interleaved
updated (SNES) -gd3 can convert Tales of Phantasia and Dai Kaiju Monogatari 2
updated (SNES) interleaved extended HiROM dumps are handled correctly
updated (SNES) uCON64 follows the "uCONRST standard" for calculating the "search CRC32" of BS dumps
updated (all) both the search CRC32 and the "data CRC32" are displayed if they differ
updated (SNES) applied anomie's GD patch which solved a problem with one-part split files
updated (SNES) replaced John Weidman's BS detection code with Nach's
updated (SNES) uCON64 now recognises a complete GoodSNES 0.999.5 set
added (SNES) -dmirr strip mirrored block from end of ROM
added (SNES) support for native Super UFO file format Use -ufo to convert a file to Super UFO format, use -s to split the resulting file (required for HiROM games)
updated (SMS) -mgd is recognised again, -sms won't crash uCON64 anymore and -smds calls the SMS function when -sms is specified
updated (SMS) -sms in no longer required for SMD files, they are automatically detected
updated (SNES) fixed -b (apply Baseline patch)
updated (all) added support for non-standard parallel port addresses

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Thanks to Daniel for the news.

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