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
This is available for Windows, DOS, Linux, Solaris, and BeOS in the General Utilities section.

Thanks to Daniel for the news.