GoodMerge v3.0
posted in Utility Release by narvick on Jul 4th, 2004John Paul Taylor II wrote in to tell us that a new version of GoodMerge is now out. This utility complements Cowering's Good utilities by taking a ROM collection and compressing it into one of several formats with excellent compression and organization. This is a must have for ROM collectors. Here's what's new in this build:
- Completely redesigned the GUI from the ground up. The new interface should make things a whole lot clearer.
- Added language support to the interface. Big thanks go to those who provided native language translations: xphaze
- Completely redesigned the database format from the ground up. GMDBs are no longer supported, in favor of the new XML / Regular Expression XMDBs.
- Redesigned the bias system. Biasing is no longer done on a "Pick One" basis (which was never really ideal anyway). Instead, you prioritize all the available zones and when a game with multiple names is encountered, the name with the highest priority zone is used for the archive name.
- Added settings saving. Your settings are now automatically saved between each session. Note that most are not actually saved until you click "Merge Now". This means that you can play around with everything and be sure that you can get your old settings back simply by closing the window.
- Added a place to configure the locations of decompressors from the GUI.
- Made the windows remember their last positions/sizes.
- Fixed possible inconsistent text size of checkboxes on the advanced page that shows up with certain XP Visual Themes.
- Fixed some window sizing issues.
- Added version and timing info to the log.
- Fixed occasional bug where the cancel dialog would not accept "No".
- Added Traditional Chinese flag (Taiwan).
- Fixed caret position when restoring a "minimal" sized window.
- Fixed log window size not being saved.